Summary

Facilitates Australia’s accession to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime by amending the:

and to require carriers and carriage service providers to preserve stored communications when requested by certain domestic agencies or when requested by the Australian Federal Police on behalf of certain foreign countries; and to: ensure that a foreign country can secure access to stored computer data, including preserved data; and allow a stored communication warrant to be obtained for foreign law enforcement purposes; , and to: enable existing telecommunications data to be provided to a foreign law enforcement agency on a police to police basis; and enable the collection of prospective telecommunications data for foreign law enforcement purposes in certain circumstances; to provide that carriers and carriage service providers can recover costs incurred when assisting foreign law enforcement agencies; to provide that computer offences are consistent with the convention; and to: create confidentiality requirements in relation to authorisations to disclose telecommunications data; and expand offence provisions.