Australian government shelves metadata collection plan

Monday, June 24, 2013 - 05:00 in Mathematics & Economics

The government has shelved a controversial plan to force Australian telecommunications companies, internet service providers and sites such as Facebook to collect “metadata” from Australian users and store it for two years. The government had run out of time to p …

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