Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said in Senate Estimates today that his office does not support a government plan to require companies providing Internet access to store customers' Web browsing activitiesfor authoritiesto access when needed, reports ZDNet. "We need to understand what is the exact problem being responded to [that] response is proportionate to the risk," said Pilgrim, warning that when holding data for a long time, "there is great risk that something could happen to it." Pilgrim said that in preliminary talks with the Attorney's General Department, he called for a privacy assessment should the proposal become law.
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