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If the government can’t illustrate through “evidentiary leads” that metadata serves to uproot criminals and terrorists, its use will have unforeseen negative impacts, Quentin Dempster writes in an op-ed for The Sydney Morning Herald. “The terror alert for Australia has been declared to be high. But what has started as a good faith motivation to apply metadata retention for ‘public protection’ may degenerate into invasive abuse of power by agencies pressured by events into a—perhaps understandable—paranoid mindset,” Dempster writes. There’s also no legal precedent for metadata use, he notes, adding, “A person's digital footprint exposes almost everything about that person.”
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