Assange sets out his stall for Senate ticket
June 13, 2013 - 2:50PM
Philip Dorling
... “It is disturbing enough that every Australian who communicates with friends and professional or business colleagues in the United States now knows that they are being watched by Washington ... But what is more sinister – and represents an abject failure to protect the security of Australians – is that the Gillard government and the Abbott-led opposition have not condemned the revelations that whistleblower Ed Snowden has brought to the world's attention" ...
Mr Assange says that if he is elected, his party will introduce legislation to require law enforcement and security agencies to obtain judicial warrants before they access telecommunications and internet metadata.
Published statistics show that federal and state law enforcement agencies and government departments obtained telecommunications and internet metadata more than 300,000 times in 2010-2012 ...
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