The federal departments of Health and Human Services, along with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, have been named as government agencies that have applied for warrantless access to telecommunications metadata under the government's controversial data retention laws.

On Monday, Sydney-based technologist Geordie Guy released the results of a Freedom of Information request that listed 61 government agencies that had applied for ongoing access to telecommunications data.