Well we seem to have been offered a more reasoned explanation of what the security services are after from David Irvine and Andrew Colvin of AFP. Their argument seems to be that they want to be able to do Traffic Analysis.
Now this seems reasonable and their argument as to wanting a consistent set of storage across various communication mediums makes sense. So we face what seems to be a reasonable request from the Intelligence Community and I wouldn't seek to deny them this.
However there is a lot more in the MetaData stores that they could use for other purposes such as reconstructing browsing histories and also just as a way to troll through stuff via traffic type analysis. I think that they need to offer a clear way that can be publicly shown that they are only using this way. David I. mentioned the Inspector General but this is another part of the community that does not openly engage - there must be a middle ground - why not have a group of cleared folks from community who act as reviewers and report to community.
Something like the ABC Community Advisory board - with hard term limit of say 4 years.
TRUST BUT VERIFY
Update:
Interesting article on how it just keeps going wrong with these things
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