‘Knowing that agencies were armed with this huge arsenal made it especially odd to see Reece Kershaw , the head of the AFP, and Mike Burgess, the head of Asio , politely ask for more cooperation from tech companies.’‘Knowing that agencies were armed with this huge arsenal made it especially odd to see Reece Kershaw , the head of the AFP, and Mike Burgess, the head of Asio , politely ask for more cooperation from tech companies.
But as I noted in a question at the Press Club, on the latest publicly available data agencies have not been using the compulsory powers at all. Zip, zilch, zero.“I don’t want to go into details of that. But you know, it goes back to the tech companies, we just want what we currently have as far as that arrangement of them being able to share material and referrals to us that we can act on.
Australia’s reflexive response to any national security or criminal threat is that new powers must be required.