Australia PM Says New Terror Laws Will Not Invade Privacy

Comment: Australia is getting tough of prvacy laws for protection.
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By AFP on August 06, 2014
 
SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday defended tough new terror laws under which digital data will be retained for up to two years, denying it is an invasion of privacy.
The government plans to overhaul laws to make it easier to arrest and prosecute terrorists and make it an offense to travel to designated hotspots overseas without a valid reason.
It has also substantially increased resources to security and intelligence agencies and wants telecommunications companies to retain metadata for up to two years.
"They're not invading privacy," Abbott told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation of the proposed laws which were announced Tuesday.
"The metadata that we're talking about is information which is already kept. And all we're saying is that the telecommunications providers should continue to keep this. "We're not asking anyone to do what they don't already do," he added.
 
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