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Millie Graham Wood, from Privacy International, said: "[We believe] that existing EU law rules out data retention regimes of the kind contained in Dripa and reflected in the investigatory powers bill.
Two legal judgements at the highest level in Europe in recent years have reaffirmed that all Member States' data retention regimes must comply with core principles of legality, necessity, and proportionality in order to avoid breaching citizens' fundamental rights.
However Privacy International's survey of Member States data retention regimes indicates that many are yet to make the necessary changes to ensure domestic legislation is compliant with the court rulings.
Nonetheless, we are now eight months into the CJEU decision, and the slow pace by which changes are evolving in these jurisdictions is concerning, given how impactful these data retention regimes are on Europeans' fundamental rights and freedoms," it adds.
However its strategy of publicly consulting on amendments to surveillance law to try to workaround the CJEU's ruling against indiscriminate data retention regimes has drawn withering criticism from privacy groups.
Last November, under mounting pressure over its broadly drafted surveillance regime — including a landmark judgment by Europe's top court, at the end of 2016, which stated that "general and indiscriminate" state data retention regimes contravene EU law — a Home Office consultation paper revealed plans to amend the legislation to try to squeeze its powers into a more lawful shape.
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The federal government is embarking on a mandatory data retention regime that will force internet and phone companies to store Australians' web, call and location data for two years, giving government agencies warrantless access to this information.
"The major area of budget growth of interest to MEAA members," Murphy said, "was the allocation of $153.8m over four years to support the implementation of the government's mandatory data retention regime".
He added: "It doesn't do much for your confidence that this is an agency that is arguing strenuously for a mandatory data retention regime that they let this document go without realising it.
Meanwhile the commonwealth ombudsman told Guardian Australia that while he was consulted by the attorney general's department (AGD) about the office's role under the new laws, "it is not proposed that the commonwealth ombudsman will oversee the data retention regime and carriers".
The European Court of Justice has issued a preliminary ruling on a data retention case brought by UK MPs and privacy rights groups seeking to challenge the government's data retention regime under DRIPA.
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