The Age – MELBOURNE, Australia
Big Brother and privacy rights
Under the proposed Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill, the Australian intelligence service and the police will be given the power to tap the telephones of third parties to the actual suspects under investigation. In other words, people suspected of nothing will be under surveillance. Police will have the power to keep the tap in place for 45 days. The intelligence service will get 90 days. The warrant would be issued by a judge.
The logic behind this seems circuitous and misguided. Whatever links they may have to others, criminal suspect or not, innocent people have the right to privacy and to be treated as innocent. Where is the evidence that the fights against crime and terrorism are being lost because of these cherished rights? To put innocent people under surveillance, whatever the police or the government might argue, removes basic rights. It’s Big Brother entering your house. (Copyright – The Age)
What ever next, UK ID cards with radio transmitters in them to secretly track your movements? YES it would seem so… Stay Tuned!!!
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