Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has told the Gillard government to fix serious flaws
in its proposed Cybercrime Bill, which will force ISPs to collect real-time internet traffic data and make it available for police locally and internationally for up to 30 days.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland introduced the bill in June, saying the new laws would allow Australia to join a global treaty on fighting cybercrime.
More than 40 nations are signatories to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, which aims to fight fraud and other offences committed using the internet, such as computer hacking, child pornography and copyright infringement.
But Senator Ludlam said the proposed legislation goes well beyond the already controversial European convention on which it is based
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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