In a bid to pass data retention laws, Tony Abbott has proposed warrants to access journalists' metadata. But the press union has rejected the calls, saying confidential sources should be kept ...

In the spirit of being "open and upfront," Telstra is allowing customers to access their metadata records and the same information that the telco provides to law enforcement -- for a fee. Claire ...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is complaining it has been adversely impacted by the stripping of its access to data retained by Australia's telcos. In 2015, the Coalition Australian government ...

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) handed down its report [PDF] of Australia's metadata retention scheme on Wednesday, issuing 22 recommendations that tighten ...

Metadata is back in the news, following The Guardian's extraordinary revelation on Wednesday revealing that the National Security Agency has been secretly scooping up the phone records of millions of ...

The government won’t reveal which organisations or how many are seeking the right to warrant-free access to telecommunications data kept as part of the data retention scheme. However, a spokesperson ...

Victoria’s government is pushing for the state’s Office of the Racing Integrity Commissioner to gain warrant-free access to the so-called ‘metadata’ retained under the data retention scheme. In a ...