Mark down March 19, 2015 as the date that total surveillance went fully mainstream in Australia. Both major parties of Australia’s bent, broken and hobbled parliamentary system voted for metadata retention laws that will effectively turn all of your net-connected devices into telescreens. Don’t panic, though. It’s not like they will actually be listening in to everything you say or reading your facebook status updates, or watching you as you buy ice from your friendly street-corner dealer. No. They don’t need to. They will only have access to your metadata; ALL the data about ALL your data. And also, don’t … Continue reading Telescreen Roll-out Commences