Snowden says Australia watching its citizens ‘all the time,’ slams new metadata laws

Saturday, May 9, 2015
By Paul Martin

RT.com
May 09, 2015

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden accused Australia of undertaking mass surveillance of its citizens and passing laws on the collection of metadata that he says do not protect society from acts of terrorism.

Snowden, addressing the Progress 2015 conference in Melbourne via satellite link, criticized Australia’s new metadata laws, which allow the government and intelligence agencies to keep a constant watch on citizens.

“What this means is they are watching everybody all the time,” the former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower said. “They’re collecting information and they’re just putting it in buckets that they can then search through not only locally, not only in Australia, but they can then share this with foreign intelligences services.”

Last month, Australia passed controversial laws that require telecommunications firms to retain their customers’ phone and computer metadata for two years.

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