AU: ASIC seeks power to read your emails, texts

Bianca Hall and Lucy Battersby report:

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has called for sweeping powers so it can access phone call and internet data for its war on white-collar crime.

Not only does the authority want the powers to intercept the times, dates and details of telecommunications information; it also wants to access the contents of emails, social media chats and text messages.

Read more on The Age.