The government has been trying to push the ability to keep our metadata for two years, claiming it’s necessary for national security.
Critics argue that this would be a massive privacy breach, but the government believes it is necessary to protect Australia.
A recent Essential poll has shown that around 40 per cent of Australians support the introduction of the new metadata laws, while 44 per cent do not.
As it stands, it’s still not clear what data the government wants to keep, a concrete cost and even what it means for journalists and their sources.
It’s then pretty fitting for him to claim that, “The Australian people are being sleepwalked into a system the Attorney-General can’t even articulate.”
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