# Office gossip emails still safe in Australia

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 14, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-gossip-emails-still-safe-in-australia/445265 "2008-04-14T08:23:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-gossip-emails-still-safe-in-australia/445265/1 "2008-04-14T08:23:51Z")

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The Australian Government is bringing in a new law to allow companies to read workers’ emails.  
[Gillard: All Workers are Possible Terrorists](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23535335-29277,00.html)

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**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-gossip-emails-still-safe-in-australia/445265/2 "2008-04-14T08:25:53Z")

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The Australian Government is bringing in a new law to allow companies to read workers’ emails.  
[Gillard: All Workers are Possible Terrorists](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23535335-29277,00.html)  
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[http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17634/53/](http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17634/53/)

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-gossip-emails-still-safe-in-australia/445265/3 "2008-04-14T13:33:06Z")

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> [The Attorney-General’s] office say it’s all been misrepresented by the media. A media beatup, they reckon. Apparently they’re worried that companies who copy emails for virus-scanning purposes might be in contravention of the _Telecommunications Interception Act_ and they’d like to remove the potential problem.
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> The functionary at the A-G’s office didn’t know how the story got started or why Julia Gillard got involved in the way she did — ie spouting total gibberish.

]([http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/14/and-then-a-stupidity-occurs/#comment-261354](http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/14/and-then-a-stupidity-occurs/#comment-261354))..