{"id":4437,"date":"2017-04-12T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2021-08-06T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T04:59:00","slug":"413-australias-national-get-vpn-day-isps-telecoms-officially-begin-metadata-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/413-australias-national-get-vpn-day-isps-telecoms-officially-begin-metadata-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/13 is Australia&#8217;s National Get a VPN Day as ISPs and telecoms officially begin metadata retention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 13th, 2017 is now\u00a0\u201cNational Get a VPN\u201d Day for the entire country of Australia. In March 2015, Australia passed the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/sitecore\/content\/Home\/Parliamentary_Business\/Bills_Legislation\/Bills_Search_Results\/Result?bId=r5375\">info<\/a>). The law mandates metadata retention by\u00a0Australian\u00a0internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunication companies (known as carrier service providers in Australia).<\/p>\n<h2>Australians scramble to get a VPN<\/h2>\n<p>Tim Singleton Norton, the chair of Australia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalrightswatch.org.au\/2017\/04\/12\/digital-privacy-advocates-declare-13-april-national-day-of-action-against-data-retention\/\">Digital Rights Watch<\/a>, explained the importance of Australia\u2019s National Get a VPN Day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s important that we mark this date \u2013 and pause to remember that a detailed picture of the private lives of Australian citizens is being collected by telecommunication companies on behalf of the Government. Many interactions we have in the digital world are being collected and stored by our communications providers, all without adequate safeguards.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new law gave ISPs and telecoms from October 13th, 2015\u00a0until April 13th, 2017 to start siphoning and storing all of Australia\u2019s internet and phone activity. Everything from mobile to land line call destinations and durations to emails and\u00a0location information will be stored; however internet browsing history and destination IP address is not required to be stored. It\u2019s worth point out, though, that ISPs are explicitly allowed to keep that information for internal use and it\u2019s likely that all of them already did and will continue to do so. What\u2019s worse \u2013 the information siphoned by Australia\u2019s mass surveillance programs may soon\u00a0be made available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/despite-promises-metadata-gathered-by-australian-mass-surveillance-may-be-made-available-to-civil-litigators-not-just-law-enforcement\/\">civil cases<\/a>,\u00a0such as those going after alleged copyright infringers. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/court-rules-isps-not-need-give-information-alleged-pirates-copyright-infringers\/\">United States<\/a>, a court recently ruled that ISPs did not have to do that.<\/p>\n<p>A similar law in the United Kingdom, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/government-wont-protect-online-privacy-youll\/\">Investigatory Powers Act<\/a>, also forces ISPs to store\u00a0metadata (including internet history) for at least one year. The data is available to a myriad of government organizations such as the Food Standards Agency and the Gambling Commission, along with all law enforcement. Don\u2019t be surprised if the UK also eventually makes this metadata available in civil cases.<\/p>\n<p>Mandatory metadata retention by ISPs is a direct violation of consumers\u2019 internet privacy rights and expectations. Now that Australian ISPs and telecoms are being forced to do this data retention, Internet users in Australia need to be aware and get a VPN. If the government won\u2019t protect your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/government-wont-protect-online-privacy-youll\/\">online privacy<\/a>, you\u2019ll have to do so yourself. Norton continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019ve declared [April 13] as a national day of action \u2014 we\u2019re calling upon Australian citizens to educate themselves about the scale of this surveillance and take precautions accordingly.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 13th, 2017 is now\u00a0\u201cNational Get a VPN\u201d Day for the entire country of Australia. In March 2015, Australia passed the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill (info). The law mandates metadata retention by\u00a0Australian\u00a0internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunication companies (known as carrier service providers in Australia). Australians scramble to get a VPN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/413-australias-national-get-vpn-day-isps-telecoms-officially-begin-metadata-retention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4\/13 is Australia&#8217;s National Get a VPN Day as ISPs and telecoms officially begin metadata retention&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130,1937],"tags":[322,182,125],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-governments","category-vpn","tag-australia","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-metadata"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>4\/13 is Australia&#039;s National Get a VPN Day as ISPs and telecoms officially begin metadata retention<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 13th, 2017 is now\u00a0&quot;National Get a VPN&quot; Day for the entire country of Australia. 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