The national security legislation watchdog is considering whether Australia’s peak criminal intelligence agency needs controversial powers that allow it to take over the online accounts of criminals and hack...
Online account takeover powers were used to fight terrorism for the first time last year, with the federal police using controversial identify and disrupt laws to secretly gather evidence....
Federal police were issued three warrants to secretly assume control of a person’s online account last financial year to gather evidence about death threats and child abuse material, according...
Opinion: When it comes to sweeping new national security powers, Australia does not have a Opposition political party. Time and time again over the last decade, the two major...
Legislation handing “extraordinary” new hacking powers to Australian authorities has sailed through Parliament with support from the Opposition, despite the government not implementing some of the recommendations from the...
Opinion: When I started in tech journalism more than a decade ago in 2010, I revealed that the federal government was considering introducing metadata retention. The changes meant select...
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...