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The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act, 2021 amends the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Key amendments are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Act provides extraordinary powers to Australian Police (the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission) by introducing <strong><em>\u201cData Disruption warrants\u201d<\/em><\/strong> to disrupt data by modifying, adding, copying or deleting data in order to avoid the commission of serious offences online and make minor technical corrections.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Act also introduces <strong>\u201c<em>Network Activity warrants\u201d<\/em><\/strong> to enable the Australian Police to intercept data on serious criminal activity by permitting access to the devices and networks used to facilitate criminal activity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lastly, the Act introduces <strong><em>\u201cAccount Takeover warrants<\/em>\u201d<\/strong> to enable the Australian Police to take over a person&#8217;s online account for the purposes of gathering evidence to further a criminal investigation and make minor amendments to the controlled operations regime to ensure controlled operations can be conducted effectively in the online environment.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">An \u201cemergency authorisation\u201d procedure is also introduced which shall the above actions without a warrant under certain circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Tanvi Singh, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 3, 2021, the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act, 2021 has come into force in Australia. 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