Officials from the Australian Attorney General’s Department appeared before the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to hash out proposed changes to telecommunications interception legislation. ZDNet reports that AG Department Secretary Roger Wilkins said the data retention portion of the proposal could be altered to specifically exclude web browsing history from “non-content data.” Wilkins said URLs would be classified as content data, requiring a warrant from law enforcement. “In characterizing what (telecommunications companies) are obliged to do, we could say, ‘This does not include web-browsing material.’ They are not obliged to do that, and certainly, the more critical thing is that law enforcement agencies basically cannot authorize access to that,” Wilkins said.
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