Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by ben_w on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:56AM (#28457995)

Indeed, I have no issue with the police having the power to read whatever data a warrant grants.

My problem is the linked page says:

> A DATA DISRUPTION WARRANT enables the agencies to “add, copy, delete or alter” data on devices.

Copy is fine, it’s the other three which are scary. Perhaps they shouldn’t be scary, perhaps they have well-defined meanings in law I’m just not familiar with (like how “Hacker News” has nothing to do with cyber crime), but I can only respond within the limits of my knowledge, and that seems scary.

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by aljp on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:51AM (#28490885)

I think the reason they want the ability to add, delete, and alter is so they can disrupt certain users, software, or services legally, like botnets or arms deals. It's probably too broad and could be abused though.

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