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1. Second lot of critical infrastructure laws given green light: (Government Tech Policy); A second tranche of legislation on critical infrastructure is likely to be passed by the Senate this week after it was given the go-ahead, with minor tweaks suggested by a committee. The Parliamentary ...; Created on 29 March 2022
2. Public hearing into second tranche of cyber laws: (Security); The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has today begun hearing evidence from critical industries and government agencies on proposed new laws to protect Australia’s infrastructure ...; Created on 16 March 2022
3. Why should Morrison expect special treatment from WeChat?: (Open Sauce); ... has been plenty of breast-beating about this issue; the baby-faced Senator James Paterson, a former operative of the Institute of Public Affairs, who heads the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence ...; Created on 25 January 2022
4. Govt ignores industry protests, passes critical infrastructure bill: (Technology Regulation); ... little power grab” which did not have the backing of key stakeholders. After the bill was examined by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, it said, on 30 September, that the ...; Created on 23 November 2021
5. Govt snubs tech industry, re-introduces cut-down emergency powers bill: (Technology Regulation); ... not long after three major tech industry bodies urged a significant revision of the bill before it is voted on. But the government has ignored this plea and followed the advice of the Parliamentary ...; Created on 20 October 2021
6. Tech industry bodies urge government to revise emergency powers bill: (Technology Regulation); ... "highly problematic and largely unchanged despite extensive feedback from our organisations". The bill in question was reviewed by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security which ...; Created on 15 October 2021
7. Panel calls for giving government emergency powers during cyber attacks: (Technology Regulation); A joint parliamentary committee has proposed that an amendment to the laws governing critical infrastructure be split up into two, in order to pass what it says are "urgent reforms". The Parliamentary ...; Created on 30 September 2021
8. Bill giving more online powers to AFP, ACIC passed: (Government Tech Policy); ... to add the new powers. It was introduced into Parliament in December last year. The bill was passed by the Senate on Wednesday, after incorporating some changes suggested by the Parliamentary Joint Committee ...; Created on 25 August 2021
9. Communications Alliance throws support behind Government’s new hacking powers plans: (Telecoms & NBN); ... agencies under the Identify and Disrupt Bill. In the report of its inquiry, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has recommended 34 amendments to the controversial ...; Created on 06 August 2021
10. Video Interview Part 3: Peter Coroneos and Patrick Fair talk Australia's mandatory data retention law: (Technology Regulation); ... been in place for over five years now, and was last year reviewed by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS). Just so you know, the original bill passed with bipartisan ...; Created on 09 March 2021
11. Video Interview Part 2: Peter Coroneos and Patrick Fair talk Australia's surveillance law: (Technology Regulation); ... he outlines some of his concerns in the 20 minute dialogue with Peter Coroneos, which is embedded above. The Bill is currently before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS). ...; Created on 08 March 2021
12. NSW civil liberties body slams bill for proposing 'a new species of warrant: (Government Tech Policy); ... is so wide," NSWCCL secretary Michelle Falstein said in a submission to an inquiry into the bill, being conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. "The minister’s focus ...; Created on 16 February 2021
13. Huawei says telco law changes have hit the company very hard: (Government Tech Policy); ... sub-contracting jobs and $100 million in R&D in Australia, the company claims in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry. The inquiry, being conducted by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence ...; Created on 10 December 2020
14. Law Council urges govt not to rush surveillance bill into law: (Government Tech Policy); ... should not, under any circumstances, be called on for debate and intended passage in the remaining four Parliamentary sitting days in 2020,” she said. “There must not be any repetition of the regrettable ...; Created on 04 December 2020
15. Everybody's favourite whipping boy, encryption, is under attack agai: (Open Sauce); The good folk who man the security agencies in Australia have cleverly pounced on admissions by Google and Facebook during a parliamentary inquiry, that they do not honour 20% of the requests for data ...; Created on 18 November 2020
16. AIIA cautions govt not to rush critical infrastructure bill through: (Technology Regulation); ... part of the country's Cyber Security Strategy 2020. A total of 194 submissions to the consultation paper were received and 128 were made public a few days ago. During the hearings held by the Parliamentary ...; Created on 13 November 2020
17. CA calls for restricting state agencies' access to metadata: (Government Tech Policy); The lobby group representing the telecommunications industry has called on the government to accept recommendations made by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security and repeal two ...; Created on 29 October 2020
18. Sydney Morning Herald shows it knows nothing about encryption: (Open Sauce); ... are dozens): 1, 2, 3], one would have thought that anyone involved in the media industry would be aware of this basic fact. Sadly, it seems the SMH was not. During hearings held by the Parliamentary ...; Created on 26 October 2020
19. AFP says it made three requests for assistance in breaking encryption in 2019-20: (Government Tech Policy); The Australian Federal Police has told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security that it has used technical assistance requests issued under the encryption law passed in December 2018 ...; Created on 07 August 2020
20. Communications Alliance fronts up to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security: (Security); ... in its opening statement to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS), also listing other key objectives as: the need for the security of our telecommunications networks, ...; Created on 28 July 2020
21. Internet Australia says flawed Encryption Bill weakens, not protects, Australian's securit: (Government Tech); ... Monitor. Expecting Parliament to commence a review of the bill today, Internet Australia calls for the INSLM recommendations to be accepted. The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security ...; Created on 27 July 2020
22. Monitor's report says encryption law needs just a couple of change: (Government Tech Policy); ... report is expected to inform the deliberations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security which has to submit its final report on the law by 30 September. Only after that wil ...; Created on 10 July 2020
23. Minor changes in encryption law expected in final draft: (Government Tech Policy); ... the deliberations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security which is due to submit its final report on what is officially known as the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment ...; Created on 02 July 2020
24. New Australian law will give Americans access to encrypted info: expert: (Government Tech Policy); ... the subject of a parliamentary inquiry, a legal expert says. Helaine Leggat, managing partner of law firm ICT Legal Consulting Australia, told iTWire in response to queries that the Telecommunications ...; Created on 21 May 2020
25. Patton warns of prospect of ‘catastrophic’ accidents with proposed coronavirus tracing app: (Government Tech Policy); ... the Federal Court’s website. “One of my first tasks shortly after joining Internet Australia as its inaugural CEO back in 2014 was to front the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. ...; Created on 24 April 2020
26. Defence plays down report of likely recruitment database breach: (Security); ... as saying that suspicions about the security of the database had arisen shortly before Christmas. It also quoted Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, the head of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence ...; Created on 04 March 2020
27. Govt security watchdog seeks additional oversight of encryption bill powers: (Government Tech Policy); ... by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security as soon as the bill was passed, with a reporting date of 3 April 2019. It was expected to make changes that would provide some solace to ...; Created on 23 February 2020
28. Giving ASD a domestic role is an extremely slippery slope: (Open Sauce); ... much, apart from superficial change which makes no difference, will be incorporated. Having sat through all the hearings conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to discuss ...; Created on 20 February 2020
29. Huawei issue: Australia reverts to playing deputy sheriff role for US: (Open Sauce); ... Secretary Dominic Raab when he paid a visit recently and then leaking the conversation to the media, hopefully to embarrass Britain into toeing the American line. The heads of two Australian parliamentary ...; Created on 17 February 2020
30. Rights body calls for scaling back of metadata retention laws: (Data); A parliamentary panel, that is reviewing the mandatory data retention laws introduced in 2017, has been told that the legislation goes too far and should be scaled back. Alice Drury, senior lawyer ...; Created on 17 February 2020
31. UK protests leak from Australian meeting on Huawei policy: (Government Tech Policy); The British High Commissioner to Australia has lodged a formal complaint with the heads of two Australian parliamentary committees over the leaking of details from a meeting held by UK Foreign Secretary ...; Created on 15 February 2020
32. Govt unlikely to consider encryption law changes until October: (Government Tech Policy); ... Party introduced a bill this week seeking to speed up adoption of the changes. The government has indicated that it will not look at voting in any changes until the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ...; Created on 14 February 2020
33. Another stoush may be brewing between Apple and the FBI: (Security); ... the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. Several amendments were proposed, but none were adopted before the Labor Party voted along with the government to pass the bill. Soon after, ...; Created on 08 January 2020
34. Encryption law: 40% of firms say they have lost sales after passage: (Government Tech Policy); ... known as the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018, was passed on 6 December 2018, after a number of hearings conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee ...; Created on 19 December 2019
35. Labor says it will fix encryption law. And tomorrow, the sun will rise in the west: (Open Sauce); ... one of those hearings, conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I grew quite tired of hearing the same argument being mounted so many times. I guess one must be grateful ...; Created on 04 December 2019
36. Govt still dawdling on encryption bill amendments, says Dreyfus: (Government Tech Policy); ... suggested by the government be immediately referred to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security and that the new laws conformed to the recommendations of the committee by early 2019. ...; Created on 26 November 2019
37. Govt wants to know what you look like when watching porn: (Open Sauce); ... nature, something which has attracted at least 140 submissions. It's instructive that the bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security rejected both the identity-matching bill ...; Created on 30 October 2019
38. Parliamentary panel rejects surveillance bills, calls for changes: (Government Tech Policy); The bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has rejected both an identity-matching bill and a passports amendment bill in their current form. The panel, headed by Liberal ...; Created on 24 October 2019
39. Censorship: ACSC anger over lawyer likening Australian law to China: (Security); ... on the encryption law — officially known as the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 — at the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, ...; Created on 15 October 2019
40. EFA queries why facial recognition inquiry hearing scrapped: (Government Tech Policy); Digital rights organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia has expressed concern over cancellation of a public hearing into the proposed national facial recognition database. The Parliamentary Joint ...; Created on 14 October 2019
41. Industry appears to think encryption law review is an eyewash: (Open Sauce); ... Dr Renwick issued a media release last week, extending the date for submissions to 1 November and stressing that though there had been numerous submissions to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence ...; Created on 10 October 2019
42. UK blames US lack of clarity on Huawei for its own indecision: (Government Tech Policy); ... the security and resilience of UK telecoms networks." On 15 July, the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee said it had found no evidence to suggest that the complete exclusion of Huawei ...; Created on 23 July 2019
43. NEC Australia seeks compensation for terminated biometric services contract: (Strategy); ... was deficient in almost every significant respect". And NEC also noted that following this report, the Federal Government’s Joint Parliamentary Committee on Law Enforcement had also considered the events ...; Created on 19 July 2019
44. AIIA urges govt to make changes in encryption law: (Government Tech Policy); ... proposed, but not included, should be subject to comprehensive scrutiny and consultation with industry, privacy and security experts. A review of the encryption law was begun by the Parliamentary Joint ...; Created on 19 July 2019
45. Home Affairs seeks retention of IP and MAC addresses and port numbers: (Government Tech Policy); ... made to a review of the law. The submission, made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security review of the mandatory data retention regime that is part of the Telecommunications ...; Created on 17 July 2019
46. Encryption law: lots of jaw, but the end product will be a dog: (Open Sauce); ... reviews — the Parliamentary Joint Panel on Intelligence and Security — is a bipartisan unit that has done a credible job all these years, that means nothing. Dutton has already indicated that if he does ...; Created on 09 July 2019
47. Encryption law: 'Misunderstanding leading to IT industry concerns: (Government Tech Policy); ... law was begun by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security as soon as it was passed, on 6 December 2018, with a reporting date of 3 April. It was expected to provide some solace to ...; Created on 08 July 2019
48. Encryption law making life harder for journalists: claim: (Government Tech Policy); ... and Access) Act 2018, was instituted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, as soon as it was passed, on 6 December 2018, with a reporting date of 3 April. It was expected to ...; Created on 08 July 2019
49. Cloud provider Vault says tech exports affected by encryption law: (Government Tech Policy); ... year. In a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, the company's chief executive, Rupert Taylor-Price, said the law, which is officially known as the Telecommunications ...; Created on 05 July 2019
50. AIIA urges govt to pass encryption law amendments in first 100 days: (Government Tech Policy); ... leaving industry unclear on the operational requirements.” A review instituted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, as soon as the Telecommunications and Other Legislation ...; Created on 20 May 2019

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