Chack out how nosy da gummints is - that's before metadata retention mind you.

600,000 requests last year apparently.

sauce: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/29/australian_telcos_co…

I used to think people that banged on about "police states" were kookoo but hell, call a spade a spade right.

So if you want to avoid this you can use a VPN (provided it's setup correctly). Like any criminal would. Derrrrr.