Amendments to the Federal Telecommunications Interception Act will be put before the House of Representatives today, as the government seeks to extend the limit of a sunset clause which allows authorities to monitor internal and government communications without a specific warrant.The federal government is hoping to extend current provisions in the act which permit various government and security agencies to intercept communications sent over government networks — including those sent by the public to the government — without an interception warrant until 12 December 2009, after they were originally set to expire on 13 June this year.
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