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04-28-2017, 05:51 PM
Here's why police were able to illegally access the call logs of a journalist
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It shouldn't come as a surprise that allowing for a privacy invasion might just result in one's privacy...being invaded.
On Friday, Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner Andrew Colvin admitted that an investigator had accessed the call logs of a journalist without getting a warrant first.*
The country's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act requires authorities to seek a Journalist Information Warrant before accessing records. Colvin told reporters the breach was a result of "human error."*
SEE ALSO: Your phone's fingerprint scanner might **t be as secure as you thought (http://mashable.com/2017/04/11/smartphone-fingerprint-scanner-vulnerability/)
"It should **t have occurred. The AFP takes it very seriously and we take full responsibility for a breach of the Act but I also want to say there was ** ill will or malice or bad intent by the ******rs involved who breached the Act," he said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/28/metadata-breach-australia-journalist/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It shouldn't come as a surprise that allowing for a privacy invasion might just result in one's privacy...being invaded.
On Friday, Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner Andrew Colvin admitted that an investigator had accessed the call logs of a journalist without getting a warrant first.*
The country's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act requires authorities to seek a Journalist Information Warrant before accessing records. Colvin told reporters the breach was a result of "human error."*
SEE ALSO: Your phone's fingerprint scanner might **t be as secure as you thought (http://mashable.com/2017/04/11/smartphone-fingerprint-scanner-vulnerability/)
"It should **t have occurred. The AFP takes it very seriously and we take full responsibility for a breach of the Act but I also want to say there was ** ill will or malice or bad intent by the ******rs involved who breached the Act," he said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/28/metadata-breach-australia-journalist/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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