Lisa Singh (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

Labor considers this amendment unnecessary. The committee examined this issue and concluded it unnecessary to insert a definition of content. If I could just quote from the committee's report:

The Committee accepts the evidence provided by industry representatives that content can be reliably separated from data for the purpose of data retention. The Committee notes that, currently, service providers are required by law to separate content from data when complying with historic and prospective data authorisations made under Chapter 4 of the TIA Act.

Senator Leyonhjelm's concerns about the precision of the dataset are adequately addressed by the existing exclusion of content under the TIA Act and by the increased precision of the dataset achieved by amendments to the bill in the other place.

The CHAIRMAN: The question is that the amendment moved by Senator Leyonhjelm be agreed to.

Question negatived.