Australia’s Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 would give federal law enforcement the ability to modify and delete data by accessing warrants, take over online accounts of suspected criminals and more, Information Age reports. The bill is currently before Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. Deakin University Senior Lecturer in Criminology Monique Mann called the measures a “hyper-legislative” approach to electronic surveillance, with “significant expansions of the existing powers of law enforcement.”
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