#DataRetention

[jorgenguldmann]

Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF)

The Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF), mandated by regulations like GDPR and CCPA, requires organizations to permanently delete personally identifiable information (PII) upon request within a defined timeframe. RTBF in a data lake poses a unique set of challenges, while A data lake is traditionally designed to store all data indefinitely; acting as an immutable storage layer where raw, unaltered data…

[thelifesway]

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[megan-dwyer-blog1]

Metadata retention laws spark big brother accusations and privacy concerns, but companies unable to follow strict deadlines.

Laws that require companies to keep phone and internet use for two years to allow security agencies to access the data for investigations into serious crimes came into effect in 2017 – meaning Australia wide citizen’s metadata is now being collected.

Citizens and companies are outraged, voicing concerns about privacy invasions, whether the information will be safely stored, the cost of the endeavour and whether companies who cannot follow the strict deadlines will be penalised.

However, the Government is positive that the information will be safe and the laws are essential to protect against terror attacks and help investigate child abuse.

So what’s the big deal? What is metadata?

       Is the Government really spying on people? (Source: Haidaspicciare)

For a phone call, metadata is mostly just a record of who you call and for how long.

When it comes to the internet, a lot more is stored, and it’s really quite scary.

Internet metadata can include: any email sent and to whom, where it was sent from and the subject of it, location of photos taken, information from social media plus when, where and how long a person was logged in for, the results for a search on Google, the websites clicked on and what websites were visited and how often.

Will Ockenden, an ABC reporter, released his metadata for internet users to decode, and it revealed private details including where he lives, where he works, the route he travels to work and even where his parents live.

The government said the new measures were all in the name of protecting the country from terror threats and were a response to the increase of Australian jihadists fighting overseas.

“It is also essential for investigating child abuse and child pornography offences that are frequently carried out online,” Attorney-General George Brandis said.

Some have said the laws are justified, but others have raised concerns about ‘Big Brother,’ civil liberties and potential vulnerabilities in the scheme.

Companies such as Telstra are now required to store everyone’s metadata, in case information is needed for an investigation. (Source: Banksy)

“On one hand we need to make sure that our national security agencies are able to do the job they’re required to do and keep Australia safe — that’s of fundamental importance to all Australians,” Opposition leader, Bill Shorten told Sky News.

“But at the same time we’ve got to make sure that we don’t have the rights of individuals, their private conversations on the internet, being intruded upon by Big Brother, so it’s a matter of getting the balance right,” Bill Shorten countered. 

The Government is trying to balance security with the right to privacy. (Source: Stiles Stilinski)

A number of concerns regarding the data retention have been brought to the attention of the Government, especially the cost of the scheme and the safety of the data.

       Source: YouTube

Australian Green Party Senator Scott Ludlam tweeted that it was "absurdly expensive and complex for ISPs (internet service providers) to implement (and) trivially easy for anyone to defeat." 

Any ISPs who were not equipped with the ability to collect the mass of data were granted 18 month extensions by the Australian government, provided they submitted plans to start doing so.

The deadline for companies with an extension to comply with the retention scheme ended on the 13th of April, however some companies are still not ready and are calling for another extension – blaming the slow pace of decision-making and lack of clarity for their inability to meet the deadline.

Communications Alliance chief executive John Stanton said, “the Attorney-General should publicly commit that no action will be taken post-deadline against any service provider that is genuinely working to comply with the regime, but has been disadvantaged by the slow pace of decision-making.” 

Australia seems to be one of the last countries to implement this legislation.

Telecommunications providers in the UK retain metadata for a minimum of one year.

In the US, a court ruled in August that the National Security Agency (NSA) could continue to collect phone metadata, although Congress changed the law earlier in the year to allow phone companies to keep their own databases, which the government can query.

In China, few protections exist against any form of state surveillance, and in Russia a law came into force in September requiring technology companies to store any data on Russian users on servers within the country - readily accessible to local authorities.

The radio interview below discusses details of the potential abuse of power of the data retention laws. A former police officer who worked with metadata stated the data has been misused to “check up on ex-girlfriends” and targets crimes such pirating movies.”

Sources: ABC; BBC; news.com.au

Edited by: Megan Dwyer 

[lucadidonna]

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[ithelpinc]

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[bernabgila]

Mapa interactivo  de Malte Spitz, político alemán que consiguió los datos quetenia su compañía telefónica, y con la ayuda de Zeit Online pudo traducir los datos que había recopilado de su vida.

Tambien dejo el Link de una charla y un video demostrativo de la web.

https://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching?language=es

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1EKvWot-3c

[quirksintech]

We can draw a distinction here between Big Data—the stuff of numbers that thrives on correlations—and Big Narrative—a story-driven, anthropological approach that seeks to explain why things are the way they are. Big Data is cheap where Big Narrative is expensive. Big Data is clean where Big Narrative is messy. Big Data is actionable where Big Narrative is paralyzing. The promise of Big Data is that it allows us to avoid the pitfalls of Big Narrative. But this is also its greatest cost. With an extremely emotional issue such as terrorism, it's easy to believe that Big Data can do wonders. But once we move to more pedestrian issues, it becomes obvious that the supertool it's made out to be is a rather feeble instrument that tackles problems quite unimaginatively and unambitiously. Worse, it prevents us from having many important public debates. As Band-Aids go, Big Data is excellent. But Band-Aids are useless when the patient needs surgery. In that case, trying to use a Band-Aid may result in amputation. This, at least, is the hunch I drew from Big Data.

Evgeny Morozov, "Connecting the Dots, Missing the Story"

[vertikar]

Data retention in Australia

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[whatwouldkingleonidasdo]

Ten Reasons Why You Should Be Against New Data Retention Laws

The Government wants to know things about your private life that you would not tell your mum. Most of us as teenagers (and beyond) have endured those post phone call inquiries from a parent: “Who was that you were speaking to on the phone?” or “How long have you been on the phone for?” or “Who’s calling you this late at night?”. Typically these queries would be met with a whiny teenage “Muuuuum, it's none of your business!”, or if you were not feeling brave enough to challenge them then a simple lie usually had the desired effect. However, we do not get that chance with our Government in Australia and we do not even get the courtesy of being asked. All that information your mum wanted is available to any Federal, State or Local Government regulatory body from ASIO to the RSPCA. They need only request it from a telecommunications company (telco) with no warrant or oversight required. Your mum still can’t get it though, and neither can you, but Government departments can and they currently make requests for it at the rate of over 500,000 times per year.

However, the information the Government currently accesses is held by private companies who only have to keep what they need to run their businesses. If the Government wants more information from your private communications they have to apply to a judge for a warrant, and to get a warrant they need to show there is a reasonable suspicion that someone is doing something wrong. The new data retention laws seek to turn this on its head. The laws will force these companies to keep the data that the Government wants on people for at least two years, and let them access it without any requirement to demonstrate a need. Now, you may be comfortable with this in a ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ kind of way. You may be the kind of person who leaves your curtains open all night and freely hands out your passwords to all and sundry. Even so, there are still at least ten good reasons why you should be against the new data retention legislation. Feel free to click on any of them if you think they sound far-fetched or if you need any further explanation.

1.  The new legislation gives the Government unlimited access to information about your day to day life.

2.  There is no evidence showing it is needed.

3.  There is no evidence to show it makes us safer.

4.  It will make Australia less safe.

5.  It is ridiculously easy to avoid if you are a terrorist or a criminal.

6.  It gives your ex-husband/wife/partner, insurance companies or any future litigant access to lots of private information about you.

7.  It gives copyright holders the ability to tie you up in expensive legal action even if you have done nothing wrong.

8.  It will make your internet access and telephone more expensive.

9.  It will make Australian businesses less competitive.

10. The people saying we need it do not understand it.

Data retention is not a political issue. There are many voices on both the left and right of politics that are against it. The trouble is so few of our politicians understand it. 

Unfortunately the data retention legislation is SO bad that it is difficult to point out its fairly obvious and basic flaws without sounding like a conspiracy theorist warning of the imposition of a dystopian police state. I still believe however, that for the most part this is because it is being implemented through ignorance rather than any evil intent, although ignorance is still no excuse for laws as bad as these.