Amazon has asked for clarification from the Australian government on who exactly is required to retain data under the Telecommunications and Other Legislation (Assistance and Access) Act 2018. “The Act’s Explanatory Memorandum states that interception and data retention obligations remain subject to ‘existing legislative arrangements’, which apply only to carriers or carriage service providers, who are only a subset of technology providers captured by the scope of the Act,”

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