Federal Labor is pushing for the metadata of Australians to be stored in a domestic storage cloud.
Labor MP Pat Conroy has echoed the concerns of former ASIO boss David Irvine, who believes the cloud should "hover" over Sydney or Melbourne rather than Shanghai or Bangalore.
"The data should be stored here," Mr Conroy told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
Mr Conroy has also joined other Labor MPs in expressing concern about the likelihood of a tick-and-flick warrant process authorities would use to gain access to the internet and phone accounts of journalists.
The government needed to talk to media companies about whether the warrants should be contestable in court, he said.
Government legislation requiring telecommunications companies to keep the metadata of their customers for at least two years so it can be accessed by security agencies is expected to clear the lower house on Thursday.
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