‘Little short of frightening’: Australian telcos protest citizen metadata access

[1] Australian telcos have said that Australian citizens should not access their internet and phone metadata.

[2] A journalist had a complaint to the federal Privacy Commissioner regarding accessing metadata in Telstra.

[3] The telcos fear that if commissioner went with the journalist’s favor, then it might open similar requests from the public, which will be a huge problem to the firms.

[Source] http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/little-short-of-frightening-australian-telcos-protest-citizen-metadata-access-20141217-128mdy.html