Originally Posted by
De_flieger
With the proliferation of free wifi around the country, the value of metadata will be greatly increased - your uniquely identifiable device logged on at certain WiFi access points, showing where you were, when you were there, what you looked up, how long you stayed and even where you moved around in certain situations. That's what they are wanting to store (among many other things).
Quite the contrary. Do you think the bad guys will be using their own device for such activities? No. Do you think that McDonalds keep a record of all MAC addresses of all devices that accesses their free wifi? No. Do you think that a smart criminal (if in fact there is such a thing) will use a device that can be linked to their identity? No.
Who cares? Good question... If you've for nothing to worry about then this would be no problem, but just imagine if you made a mistake in your logbook and wrote down Melbourne to Sydney when in fact you actually travelled to Brisbane and CASA does their logbook trolling on you, combined with a review of your metadata???