The security agencies that will most use stored telecommunications data under new legislation before the Australian parliament will not reveal exactly what data they want retained until negotiations ...

The Attorney General has struggled to define metadata and the parameters of a data retention scheme, saying web addresses would be caught in the net. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist and ...

On Monday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order approving a program to collect metadata—that is, ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Central Queensland. Followed categories will be added to My News. The report of parliament's Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security follows an inquiry into ...

A newly proposed adjustment to ethics rules, if adopted, would permit attorneys to access the embedded metadata of documents produced in electronic discovery, but only as long as the metadata doesn't ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Abbott government has indicated its support for a controversial "data retention" regime, which would require internet and telephone ...

After Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s appearance on AM this morning, there’s now a fifth definition of metadata in just four days from the government. But, at last, we might actually have ...

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has attempted to end the confusion surrounding the Government's proposed data retention scheme by offering a definition of the term 'metadata', stating that ...