Breaking International Law
Dear Australian Signals Directorate,
According to a legal memo in the Snowden documents, GCHQ will break international law as long as it's "acceptable among the 5-eyes community."
Source:
https://twitter.com/toholdaquill/status/...
https://theintercept.com/document/2015/0...
How often does ASD break international law?
Please provide any legal memos, correspondence, or other documents that discuss ASD breaking international law. Please include statistics per year from 1995 to present day on how often ASD breaks international law.
Please also include any and all processing notes associated with this FOI request.
Yours faithfully,
J.M. Porup
National Security Reporter
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Cyber and Information Security Branch
Australian Signals Directorate
Dear Australian Signals Directorate,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Australian Signals Directorate's handling of my FOI request 'Breaking International Law'.
ASD did not respond to this request via the Right To Know site. I call foul.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/b...
Yours faithfully,
J.M. Porup
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Australian Cyber Security Centre
Department of Defence
Dear Riley, Daniel MR 2,
Please respond to my request here. If not, as an Australian citizen I reserve the right to sue under FOI law.
Yours sincerely,
J.M. Porup
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Bill Tarte left an annotation ()
Odd response. Didn't ATO just get chided for doing the same thing?