Via: techworld.com.au
Greens communications spokesperson, Senator Scott Ludlam on the new Federal Government’s Telecommunications Interception and Intelligence Services Legislation Amendment Bill2010:
“[The bill] substantially broadens the scope of what ASIO and its agencies will be able to do, both in terms of their own motion, the kinds of information they will be able to share with other agencies, but also the fact they will able to be brought in other request of any other commonwealth agency to investigate, as far as I can tell, virtually anything at all,”
“The safeguards, which are in place to ensure that ASIO personnel operate within a lawful framework, are dependent on a clear articulation of ASIO’s functions. Those safeguards would be undermined by a provision which allowed ASIO personnel to pursue unrelated functions for other agencies.”
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“Police now have power to enter a home without a warrant in certain circumstances.”