Australian government hiring guardians of retained metadata

The metadata retention scheme dreamed up by Australia’s federal government may be stalled and in a shambles, but the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security isn’t waiting for things to go wrong: it’s recruiting specialists to watch over the scheme.

Turned up by Crikey (which Tweeted it as a search for “contractors”, which it’s clearly not*), a job ad seeks “telecommunications intelligence analysts” with experience handling metadata.