The federal government is hiding controversial plans to force ISPs to store internet activity of all Australian internet users – regardless of whether they have been suspected of wrongdoing – for law-enforcement agencies to access.
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Political opponents and other critics of the scheme have described the draft policy as “alarming” and accused the government of going “on a fishing expedition for as much data on the public as they can get”. One ISP executive has described the plan as “a nanny state gone totally insane”.

Note that this is not the “clean feed” scheme. It’s unrelated. This is just yet another example of the Rudd government’s idea of “reform”. Tax it, manage it, filter it, control it, waste a hell of a lot of money on it.

I don’t think this is going to fly, mind you, but just the idea that people in government would consider this in Australia is unnerving, to say the least.

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