Senate debates

Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Bills

Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020; In Committee

10:50 am

Photo of Lidia ThorpeLidia Thorpe (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] This is my final question. Minister, in terms of the safeguard, the AFP can come in and take over somebody's account. They can, as I understand it, go into that account without that person even knowing. If that individual who's had their account taken over needs to use any of the information from their account in a court of law after the AFP have been in there, what legal ramifications does that have for that individual whose social media account has been infiltrated by an AFP officer or an AAT officer? What safeguard do they have to be able to use that information in a court of law when it's already been hacked or spied on in information gathering by an AFP officer and so basically the evidence has been tampered with by one of those officers?

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