ZDNet reports that Australian Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis agree with a suite of recommendations made by a Parliamentary Joint Committee and that new data retention legislation will soon become law. However, concerns and criticisms persist. Computerworld reports Labor’s Bill Shorten has said while there are some issues with the proposed data retention legislation, none of them "are too hard to work out." The law will require telcos to keep a set of customer data, including call records, IP addresses, email address, text history and more, for a minimum of two years so the data can be accessed by law enforcement if necessary. Following the bill's passage, roughly 20 agencies would have access to the data.
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