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| Subject: Lying OZschwitz spy watchdog: It's wrong to assume we're all being spied on Thu May 08, 2014 2:24 am | |
| It is "quite wrong" to think that all Australians' phone and internet data is being collected and examined by Australian intelligence agencies, the spy watchdog says.
"I think this idea that it's all being hoovered up and stored with intelligence agencies – and they can browse it at their will – is quite wrong," Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Dr Vivienne Thom said at the Law Society of NSW on Wednesday night last week.
Despite this, Thom wouldn't comment on whether Australians should be concerned about US intelligence agencies and the revelations by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden regarding mass phone and internet surveillance. The Snowden revelations make clear that US agencies mass-harvest data including the communications of non-US citizens using US-based data and social media services.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/its-wrong-to-assume-were-all-being-spied-on-spy-watchdog-says-20140507-zr6az.html |
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