We want your metadata kept for two years, says ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis

By Dan Harrison
Updated January 31 2015 - 2:13am, first published 1:42am
Two years: ASIO director Duncan Lewis said two years metadata retention was "the floor below which we could not go". Photo: Andrew Meares
Two years: ASIO director Duncan Lewis said two years metadata retention was "the floor below which we could not go". Photo: Andrew Meares

The head of the nation's main spy agency has strongly defended proposals to require phone and internet providers to store customer metadata for two years, declaring this was the "minimum" period of time it would  consider acceptable.

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