[Infowarrior] - Oz food police want warrantless metadata access

[Richard Forno]

When You Crack Open The Surveillance Door, The Food Police Will Want Your Metadata
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160120/07101033387/when-you-crack-open-surveillance-door-food-police-will-want-your-metadata.shtml

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If you are in the business of selling lamb chops, make sure you are weighing them properly: the National Measurement Institute wants warrantless access to Australians’ metadata to help them hunt down supermarkets skimping on portions. The NMI is one of 61 agencies that has applied to the attorney general, George Brandis, to be classed as a  “criminal law-enforcement agency” in order to gain warrantless access to telecommunications data. 

As part of the government’s assurances that there would be sufficient privacy safeguards, it reduced the number of agencies that could access the data. But agencies could reapply, with the permission of the attorney general, if they were involved in enforcing “serious contraventions” of criminal laws.

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