Tag: Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Senators question new hacking powers for AFP

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A group of senators have raised significant concerns with the federal government’s proposed new hacking powers for the Australian Federal Police, warning that a “wide scope of innocent third...

AFP’s new hacking powers referred to committee

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will refer legislation handing sweeping hacking powers to the AFP to the Parliamentary intelligence and security committee amid concerns the extraordinary new powers would lead to “poisoned...

Encryption report handed to government

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The independent national security monitor’s report on Australia’s highly contentious encryption laws has been handed to government but will not be made public until August at the earliest. Independent...