Data retention
Q. The Government will provide special protections for journalists from its proposed data retention scheme (which involves keeping the phone and internet records of all Australians for two years) by requiring a warrant to access journalists’ communications data in certain circumstances. Do you think a warrant should be required to access all Australians’ data, just journalists’ data or should all data be able to be accessed without a warrant?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ Indep-endent |
|
| Warrant required to access journalists’ data |
10% |
10% |
13% |
4% |
7% |
|
| Warrant required to access all Australians’ data |
58% |
62% |
50% |
79% |
75% |
|
| No warrant required for any data |
12% |
10% |
18% |
2% |
10% |
|
| Don’t know |
19% |
17% |
18% |
15% |
8% |
The majority (58%) of respondents think under the proposed data retention scheme, a warrant should be required to access all Australians’ data, not just journalists’.
A majority of all voter and demographic groups think a warrant should be required to access all data.
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