{"id":3031,"date":"2012-06-26T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2012-06-26T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T05:10:41","slug":"an-update-on-telstras-surveillance-of-what-you-do-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/an-update-on-telstras-surveillance-of-what-you-do-online\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on Telstra’s surveillance of what you do online"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.scmagazine.com.au\/News\/306441,telstra-tracks-users-to-build-web-filter.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d suggest going and reading:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2009\/09\/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin\/<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to learn a bit about anonymization failures.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

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  1. Telstra has the ability to monitor every URL you visit on a NextG connection<\/li>\n
  2. Telstra is, in fact, monitoring every URL you visit through your NextG connection and piping that to some computer system that then takes action on it.<\/li>\n
  3. None of this was disclosed to customers.<\/li>\n
  4. Telstra is building a system for censorship.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

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    1. If this is a violation of any Australian privacy law (I’m not a lawyer)<\/li>\n
    2. Who else has access to this “anonymised” data (hellooo US legal system)<\/li>\n
    3. What universal surveillance infrastructure they have running<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Update:<\/strong> this is a followup from yesterday’s post:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/25\/on-telstra-tracking-nextg-http-requests\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      http:\/\/www.scmagazine.com.au\/News\/306441,telstra-tracks-users-to-build-web-filter.aspx I’d suggest going and reading:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2009\/09\/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin\/\u00c2\u00a0to learn a bit about anonymization failures. What we know: Telstra has the ability to monitor every URL you visit on a NextG connection Telstra is, in fact, monitoring every URL you visit through your … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,220,472,470],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","tag-censorship","tag-freedom","tag-surveillance","tag-telstra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-MT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3022,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/25\/on-telstra-tracking-nextg-http-requests\/","url_meta":{"origin":3031,"position":0},"title":"On Telstra tracking NextG HTTP requests","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-06-25","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/lists.ausnog.net\/pipermail\/ausnog\/2012-June\/013833.html\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.scmagazine.com.au\/News\/305928,telstra-says-its-not-spying-on-users.aspx\u00c2\u00a0were recently published saying that Telstra NextG users were seeing some interesting things. (Yes, there's a Whirlpool post too, but since they block requests from Tor I'm not going to link to them) Basically, on their servers they were seeing HTTP requests to the same URL as they had just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "life, the universe and everything"","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3036,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/telstra-funding-censorship-in-middle-east\/","url_meta":{"origin":3031,"position":1},"title":"Telstra funding censorship in Middle East","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-06-26","format":false,"excerpt":"This post inspired by\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernardKeane\/status\/217535549731389440 So, we know that Netsweeper is used by Telstra -\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/telstra-logs-customer-history-for-new-filter-339340337.htm We know that Netsweeper is used in Qatar, the UAE and Yemen (\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_censorship\u00c2\u00a0- see also\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.guelphmercury.com\/news\/local\/article\/577673--aiding-repression-or-just-doing-business\u00c2\u00a0) and these states use it to suppress free speech and access to information. The majority of countries that implement suppression of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "life, the universe and everything"","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3039,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/telstra-stops-tracking-still-supporting-netsweeper\/","url_meta":{"origin":3031,"position":2},"title":"Telstra stops tracking, still supporting Netsweeper","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-06-27","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/telstra-halts-customer-tracking-339340404.htm The big news: \"We are stopping all collection of website addresses for the development of this new product,\" Telstra said in a statement. This does not change their association (and presumed financial support) of Netsweeper, helping make its technology affordable to its government customers who use it to suppress\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "life, the universe and everything"","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3054,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/telstra-has-a-database-of-your-nextg-web-activity\/","url_meta":{"origin":3031,"position":3},"title":"Telstra has a database of your NextG web activity","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-06-28","format":false,"excerpt":"So, in what must be my biggest blog day ever, Telstra posted this:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/exchange.telstra.com.au\/2012\/06\/28\/further-update-telstra-smart-controls-cyber-safety-tool\/ What is clear from their previous post and the pickup in the media (including ABC, Crikey and news.com.au) is that people care about this, a lot. 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There is a mention of Netsweeper and that they provide products and services to Yemen, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates but it misses what these products are really for.","rel":"","context":"In "life, the universe and everything"","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3062,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/not-a-good-week-for-telstra-and-privacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":3031,"position":5},"title":"Not a good week for Telstra and privacy","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-06-29","format":false,"excerpt":"The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner just posted this:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.oaic.gov.au\/news\/media_releases\/media_release_120629_telstra_breaches_privacy_act.html This isn't to do with what I've posted about here the past few days, but to do with an incident back in December 2011. 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