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More powers on the way for police.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE REFORM
New South Wales police are set to receive expanded powers to access data stored on mobile phones and other electronic devices under proposed laws for ‘tackling organised crime’.
The reforms would make it easier for officers to obtain digital evidence from devices that have been seized during an arrest, roadside stop, or other form of detention.
The changes, the government says, are designed to “address the growing use of encrypted communications and digital technology by organised crime groups”.
Under the proposal, police would no longer be required to apply for a Digital Evidence Access Order (DEAO) to obtain assistance in accessing information held on a device.
Instead, once authorised, the order would allow investigators to immediately access and copy digital data, including photographs, videos, messages, documents, and other files.
The changes are intended to remove an existing requirement that a seizure be connected to a search or crime-scene warrant before police can pursue a digital evidence order.
The powers are part of a broader NSW government push to ‘strengthen police and investigative capabilities against organised crime’.
The NSW government has committed significant funding to strengthen the digital capabilities of NSW Police and the NSW Crime Commission in recent years, including a reported $126.2 million investment linked to its wider organised-crime strategy.
The reforms, therefore, represent a substantial expansion of the state’s ability to investigate information held on digital devices.
The implications are significant because modern mobile phones can contain vast quantities of highly personal information.
In addition to photographs and videos, devices may hold private messages, emails, location information, financial records, browsing histories, and material stored through services.
The government argues that stronger digital powers are ‘necessary’ to “keep pace with criminals who increasingly use technology to conceal their activities”.
The proposals have raised questions about privacy and the safeguards surrounding police access to personal information – specifically relating to how broadly the powers could be used, the threshold that must meet before obtaining an order, and how information unrelated to an alleged offence would be handled.
If recent history surrounding the NSW Police force is anything to go off, we can assume that all of these questions will likely have uncomfortable answers – with the men in blue no longer operationally tailored to serve the people, but monitor them.
Nothing will be private anymore, and no protections will remain against those who wish to stop you for a misdemeanour in order to pry further into your life.
Day by day, what remains of our once free and open society is slowly being chipped away.
THE MARCH OF TYRANNY
We live in a world where every citizen is now assumed to be a criminal until proven innocent, and a plethora of state-approved tools allow for the mass monitoring of society.
The force has already received significant boosts in recent state budgets, with total funding for police services currently reaching a record of $5.5 billion per year.
NSW Police Acting Commissioner, David Hudson, says the multi-billion dollar investment each year helps ‘continue the modernisation of the police force’.
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A ‘modernisation’ that now includes easier access to your electronic devices.
But can they be trusted with these additional powers?
It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the police force routinely believe they are above the law, undertaking disproportionate targeting campaigns against opponents of the state.
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The government fully support this behaviour, even enacting legislative pieces themselves – designed to be enforced by these individuals – that are routinely anti-democratic in nature.
For instance, the New South Wales Court of Appeal recently struck down sweeping ‘anti-protest laws’ introduced by the government of Chris Minns, finding they unlawfully infringed Australia’s implied freedom of political communication.
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The government is also responsible for chipping away fundamental rights of protection, such as digital privacy, with a number of programs designed for greater surveillance.
One example includes the current trial of drone surveillance technology in Moree for six months, presented as part of a broader effort to ‘improve public safety’.
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NSW Police, as part of their staged Sydney Siege operation, were also the catalyst for the evolution of dystopian ‘anti-terrorism’ laws passed in response to the event – and, in similar fashion, following the Bondi ‘attack’ late-last year.
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Another question that needs to be asked is who also has access to personal information obtained via mobile phone – including the possibility of foreign government access.
Australian police organisations, including NSW Police, have publicly acknowledged using Israeli firmware Cellebrite as part of their digital investigations.
These tools already allow investigators to access information such as messages, photographs, application data, call records, and location information for investigations.
They are the programs that allow police to pry inside of your device seamlessly.
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I have no doubt that this technology will be used even more frequently if an access order is no longer required as a re-requisite for use.
Yet another convolution of complex and intertwined electronic surveillance laws that threaten the fundamental freedoms of all Australians since the 9/11 era.
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All of these elements linked together show you exactly how ‘trusted’ NSW Police will be in the wake of these personal device access reforms.
In other words, I find it very hard to believe they can’t be trusted with such powers.
A culture of invasive practices and disregard for freedom has become rife through Australian police and government agencies, and these changes only supercharge the plan further.
Any small safeguards that remain for accountability are slowly being chipped away with each passing day, and this will be another example of that sad reality.
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A police liaison reprehensible – apologies; Police Representative, unofficially referenced their historic record of Australian operations, as a benchmark of community trust! “We protect and serve the Govt., (Relayed the rep) and ultimately, whoever’s ‘Running’ them. The public@large can have conplete trust in us, to keep them at the lowest level of functioning Society.”
Independent journalist Q; ” And so officer, I can’t help noticing that you’ve spilt some Industrial grade white paint on your uniform.”
OZpol liaison; “Um, yes. We endDevour (endeavour) to utilLies any information or data that comes our way, by any and all meanery and/or military technology available to us – for us, as necessary. As with all spruking, it’s to protect U16s not in our grooming EDU Dept control – Oh! and something about organised crime – also not under our ConTroll. You don’t want random players in Society now do we! As I’ve said, our benchmarks, are supported by historic actions.”
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