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Me and my metadata: How I beat Telstra after my 22-month legal battle

Posted on May 3, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Ben Grubb reports:

Monday marks 688 days since I first asked Telstra for the metadata generated by my mobile phone – the same information it routinely gives law-enforcement and intelligence agencies without a warrant when investigating crime.

Monday also marks the start of Privacy Awareness Week 2015, which usually goes by each year without too much fuss and, to be quite frank, is a little boring. But this year’s Privacy Awareness Week is different.

You see, Monday also marks the day the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has made public a landmark decision in relation to my battle with Telstra for access to my metadata.

Read more on The Sydney Morning Herald and read the decision.

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1 thought on “Me and my metadata: How I beat Telstra after my 22-month legal battle”

  1. Anonymous says:
    May 3, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    Amazing struggle. Amazing story.

    +1 for the win.
    +1 for fighting till the end. Many would have given up.

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