{"id":6052,"date":"2013-06-25T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T08:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T08:41:48","slug":"australian-government-shelves-prism-like-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6052","title":{"rendered":"Australian Government shelves PRISM-like scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6053\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/markdreyfus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6053\" alt=\"Mark Dreyfus\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/markdreyfus-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/markdreyfus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/markdreyfus.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Dreyfus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A controversial \u201cdata retention\u201d scheme that would have required Australians\u2019 internet and telephone activities to be stored for up to two years for law enforcement purposes has been shelved by the federal government after an inquiry that did not recommend the scheme go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The committee looking into the proposal \u2013 the most controversial among more than 40 others \u2013 as part of an inquiry into national security delivered its report on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>After the report\u2019s release, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the government would not pursue data retention legislation \u201cat this time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government would now await further advice from the relevant agencies and a comprehensive consultation before proceeding further, he said. &#8211; Sydney Morning Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial \u201cdata retention\u201d scheme that would have required Australians\u2019 internet and telephone activities to be stored for up to two years for law enforcement purposes has been shelved by the federal government after an inquiry that did not recommend the scheme go ahead. The committee looking into the proposal \u2013 the most controversial among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Government shelves PRISM-like scheme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[837,3451,2912],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-australia","tag-data-retention","tag-prism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/markdreyfus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/6055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}