Australian Internet service providers, notorious for publicly extolling the virtues of customer privacy, are privately assessing where their priorities lie now that a parliamentary report is recommending they log customers' online activities.
Australian Internet Service Providers are split over the decision to disconnect virus-spreading users that have taken insufficient precautions against malicious attacks.
Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia has spoken out against recommendations that could see Internet service providers forced to put their customers under constant surveillance.
Only three percent of surveyed ZDNet readers believe Internet Service Providers should monitor all user activity, following a parliamentary report that recommends user logs should be kept on customers' online activities.
Struggling Queensland-based Internet Service Provider XiS is set to provide upgraded dial-up services, a new ADSL offering and a move to a bigger CBD-based call centre, thanks to a mystery -transaction".
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