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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
If at first you don't succeed....
Scott Wickstein (Adelaide, Australia)
(0)   Privacy • Surveillance

The Australian government has long desired to force ISP's and Internet content Hosts to take responsibility for the activities of their clients. An attempt to do this in 1999 was defeated, but the authorites are back for more.

The draft bill states that ISPs are required to determine whether their services are used for "illegal conduct or speech."

Paragraph 152 of the Explanatory Notes to the draft bill says that "Possible action that could be taken by ISPs and Internet Content Hosts (ICHs) so as not to facilitate use of a carriage service by another person that breaches proposed subsection 474.16(1) includes an ISP ceasing to provide Internet services to that person or an ICH ceasing to host a particular Website containing content that breaches the proposed offence."

Obviously, the implication is clear- should this measure get up, ISP's will be legally required to be much more aggressive in their surveillance of their customers; a gross breach of their privacy.

(Via Whirlpool.net.au)