Australia Passes Identify and Disrupt Bill

guest · Aug 26, 2021

Australia Passes Identify and Disrupt Bill
August 25, 2021
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/australia-passes-identify-and/

A coalition bill that grants the police more powers to spy on criminal suspects online has been passed by the Australian government.

The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) bill has created three new types of warrants that enable the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) to modify and delete data belonging to cybercriminal suspects and take over their accounts.
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Using the new data disruption warrants, the AFP and the ACIC can prevent serious offenses from being committed online by modifying, adding, copying or deleting data. Network activity warrants allow the agencies to gather intelligence on criminal activity being carried out by cyber-criminal networks, while account takeover warrants can be used to take control of a suspect's online account.
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The committee can review the bill after four years, and the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor will review the bill in 2024.

Kieran Pender, senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, told Guardian Australia that the new powers granted to the AFP and ACIC under the bill “are unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive."
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Trooper · Aug 26, 2021

Welcome to the new world order.

xxJackxx · Aug 26, 2021

...while account takeover warrants can be used to take control of a suspect's online account...
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Sounds awesome. What could possibly go wrong?

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