Mr Deng's IT News Collection: Mr Wozniak said he was a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil rights organisation for digital equipment in the US, and he wanted humans to be “so much more important than technology”. “When I was brought up, our constitution gave us a place called the home, and your home could not be violated without court orders or warrants,” he told the forum. “My communication with my friends should be part of the private area that I own. “I would say to the Australian government that there are a lot of examples where (data retention) hasn’t been fruitful. There might be some secrets I don’t know about, but it has not been fruitful in uncovering terrorists, which is what it’s claimed to be all about.”

01 June, 2015

Mr Wozniak said he was a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil rights organisation for digital equipment in the US, and he wanted humans to be “so much more important than technology”. “When I was brought up, our constitution gave us a place called the home, and your home could not be violated without court orders or warrants,” he told the forum. “My communication with my friends should be part of the private area that I own. “I would say to the Australian government that there are a lot of examples where (data retention) hasn’t been fruitful. There might be some secrets I don’t know about, but it has not been fruitful in uncovering terrorists, which is what it’s claimed to be all about.”

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