MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade

Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by harkyns_ruins on Friday November 06, 2015 @04:33AM (#10518534)

Well the current laws passed in Australia mean a large array of government departments can see our metadata.

That aside, we know the intelligence gathered has been used for parallel construction... perhaps just selectively I guess.

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Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by bediger4000 on Friday November 06, 2015 @08:34AM (#10519333)

Dragnet surveillance data must be used selectively: you don't want to use it against your "confidential informants", after all. That would ruin their testimony in later cases, and give previously convicted "perps" grounds for appeal.

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