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The Australian Federal Police Admits Accessing Journalist's Metadata Without A Warrant

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The Australian Federal Police have accessed the metadata of a journalist without properly complying with Australia's new metadata retention laws. The breach of legislation happened earlier this year, and involved Australian police investigating the phone call records of a journalist without obtaining the correct warrant for the release of that information.



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