Bigglez said:
If CASA wants the metadata then they really should state why they want such easy access to it.
Convenience (to CASA, by not having to get an actual warrant) is not an acceptable reason.
I totally agree. If they are conducting an investigation, a judge will not hesitate to grant them the warrant within 5 minutes.
By allowing them unrestricted access, you will actually allow them to impose an new cost impost on the Aviator/Aviation traveller.
Unrestricted access means they will create a new 'Internet Activity Monitoring Department" that will employ countless IT specialists on specialist pay...or even worse subcontrators, tasked with the never ending mission of trolling metadata for an event that MIGHT have happened.
I think there are only 3 organisations that needs unrestricted access.
The ATO
ASIO
Centrelink
and the AFP. State Police can request AFP to access for an individual investigation.