Published: September 10, 2019
Report by Commonwealth Ombudsman shows that while unlawful access by departments has reduced, errors are still occurring
The home affairs department ordered companies to preserve metadata and used warrants to access it “without proper authority” and twice unlawfully accessed stored communications, according to an ombudsman’s report.
In a sequel to the report revealing 116 illegal metadata searches by the ACT police, later admitted to number more than 3,000, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has declared that unlawful access by government agencies has “reduced significantly” since 2016-17.
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