![]() The report also reveals, for the first time, how law enforcement agencies are using the government’s new anti-encryption legislation passed at the end of 2018. The number of warrants sought is a threefold increase, but there was an overall reduction in the amount of data sought compared with the two warrants issued and 58 authorisations in the 2017-18 financial year. It would also make the journalist information warrants contestable, where the journalist could present evidence or contest the application for the warrant.Īfter last year’s raids, the AFP was issued with a direction from the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, to consider the public interest implications before investigating leaks to journalists. Late last year, the Right to Know coalition proposed to the joint parliamentary committee on intelligence and security amendments to legislation that would exempt journalists from criminal liability for bona fide reporting activity. ![]() The high-profile raids led to a campaign from a broad range of media outlets in Australia, including Guardian Australia, for greater press freedom, and resulted in two parliamentary inquiries into press freedom. ![]() The AFP was the only law enforcement agency to seek warrants to hunt down sources in the financial year, and came in a year where the AFP conducted raids at the ABC and on the home of the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst in relation to leaks of government information. ![]() The journalist subject to the warrant has no knowledge that a warrant has been sought or issued, but a prime minister appointed public interest advocate can make submissions about whether to issue or refuse the warrant. Under the mandatory data retention legislation, law enforcement must get a warrant to access a journalist’s historical telecommunications metadata – including information on who they called, when they called or their location information. ![]()
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