This is a story by the ABC’s Will Ockenden on the scary side of new data retention laws in Australia. You can read the full story here. The visualisation of the data was built by Mac Bryla and can be found on the Tableau Public website.

Australia’s new data retention laws mean phone and internet companies have to save this information for two years: that’s every time you call someone, where you call them from, which cell tower your phone pings every time it connects to the internet, and more.

On a mission to find out what that data might reveal, ABC reporter Will Ockenden took a ‘surveillance selfie’: he got access to his own metadata, and now for the first time you can see what an individual Australian’s metadata actually looks like and how your phone tracks your every move.

 

 
 

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