Technology companies struggling to comply with sweeping metadata retention laws are being offered time extensions, Attorney-General George Brandis said.
The laws, which require the companies to retain phone and internet records for all Australians so law enforcement authorities can catch offenders such as terrorists and child abusers, are to come into place on Tuesday. Fewer than one in five companies say they are ready.
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