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The Senate on Tuesday began debating data retention legislation to force telecommunications companies to hold customer metadata for two years to allow access by police and security agencies.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security recommended in favour of the introduction of a data breach notification scheme, but this was not part of the data retention legislation that passed the Senate last week.

Australian media industry figures, the journalists' union and key crossbench senators have argued a compromise deal on data retention legislation does not go far enough to protect confidential sources.

Congress, too, has toyed with the idea of drafting data retention legislation, and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has signaled on numerous occasions that he would like to see that happen.

"Successive attorneys general, from both sides, rejected pressure from law enforcement agencies to bring in data retention legislation," he said on Wednesday, adding that the attorney general, George Brandis, and his department "were just following the then prime minister instructions".

The Home Office minister James Brokenshire promised in July during the passage of emergency data retention legislation to amend the code of practice on the police acquisition and disclosure of communications data, including phone and web use records, to ensure that professional concerns about privileged information were taken into account.

Facebook's facial recognition technology, corporate opposition to Net Neutrality legislation, and data retention mandates by Congress are all efforts to put the internet under strict government and corporate control.

Member states are now allowed to bring in legislation to mandate data retention and law enforcement access.

"The raft of legislation for mass data retention, snooping on journalists and their sources, criminalising the reporting of public interest stories, has created an atmosphere where this type of outrageous and aggressive conduct is condoned when it should be condemned".

The Government is introducing emergency legislation called the "Data Retention and Investigation Powers Bill" that forces internet service providers (ISPs) and phone operators to store information about customer activity for 12 months at a time.

At the same time as the U.K. seeks to legislation for greater data retention powers, Europe as a whole continues to move the other way — with the European Court of Justice last month invalidating the 15-year-old Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement between the EU and the US owing to concerns about the privacy impact of government mass surveillance programs on European's fundamental privacy rights.