ASIO now has the power to “...add, copy, delete or alter” data on any citizen’s computer or device they decide to ‘monitor’.
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Think about this and consider the implications: Add to. Copy. Delete. And alter. Your data.
The politicians who pushed these powers through and who blithely allowed these powers to pass, have either not read the national security laws (as O’Dwyer and Ellis made cringingly obvious on Q&A), or have a vested interest in covering up government malfeasance.
Section 35P of the ASIO Act criminalises any citizen, not just journalists, who expose or pass on information relating to abuse of power hidden behind an SIO. The submission (no.46) that Wikileaks made on September 24 to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry into the comprehensive review of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act1979, outlines the Australian government’s deliberate misrepresentation to the Australian public of the government’s access to intercepted citizen data via 5eyes ‘intelligence’ sharing, and points out that amendments made in 2011, to the Intelligence Services Act exponentially increased permitted surveillance of Australian citizens without their knowledge.
All abuse of power by government is in the public interest.
There has been no “strict oversight” of these laws.
The only ‘oversight’ is the deliberate oversight by these politicians in omitting to properly inform the Australian public of their absolute loss of privacy, freedoms and protections.
Australian citizens have the right to know they have been deliberately misinformed over these laws, in time to fight further invasive laws being pushed through parliament that will potentially further criminalise innocent citizens.
