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Infrastructure

EFA Challenges Claims of Age Assurance Technology Trial Success

On 20 June 2025 the preliminary findings of the Australian Government’s Age Assurance Technology Trial were presented.   The major talking point from the consultancy team managing the trial was this claim: “Age assurance can be done in Australia and can be private, robust and effective”. While this makes a great sound bite for our Prime Minister and Communications Minister, things could not really be further from the truth. John Pane, EFA Chair joined the Age Assurance

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Artificial Intelligence

EFA Slams Trump-Style AI Deregulation Agenda

Melbourne, Australia, 06/08/2025 – Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), a leading not-for-profit organisation advocating for digital rights, expresses deep concern over the interim report issued by the Productivity Commission into Harnessing Data Digital Technology. The Productivity Commission has taken a page out of the USA’s President Donald Trump’s authoritarian, techno-colonial AI playbook by warning the federal government against making new laws that would stifle the development of Artificial Intelligence.  John Pane, EFA Chair made the following

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General

Hands Off Protests 2025: Stories From Across the Divide

On April 5, 2025, Theodora Skeadas attended one of many Hands Off demonstrations taking place across the United States, in protest against the Trump Administration’s attack on social welfare, critical healthcare programs, diversity and trans rights, worker’s rights, and data privacy. Theodora shared her story with Electronic Frontiers Australia for Stories From Across The Divide. EFA is sharing stories from across the divide—whether that divide is between rural and urban communities, different generations, political beliefs, or

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Uncategorized

EFA’s Response to 2025-2026 Federal Budget

It’s budget time again. While the government deals with ubiquitous cost of living pressures we have had a quick look to see what the budget holds for digital rights in 2025. And with an election likely to be called any day now, we plan on bringing digital rights issues to the government’s attention. Here is what we found: 1. The OAIC has been handed an extra $8.7 million to support enforcement activities over the next 3

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What We Do

Policy

We actively monitor a number of policy areas and specific issues. The topics below provide a detailed view of EFA’s policy positions.

Copyright

Australia’s copyright laws are outdated, inflexible and not fit for the digital age. As such, EFA is a long-standing supporter of reform of Australia’s Copyright Act.

Privacy & Security

Privacy is fundamentally about consent and control over access to information, and goes hand-in-hand with security. Privacy is a human right.

Censorship

Adults should be able to make their own informed decisions about what content they create and consume.

Encryption

Access to encryption technologies is vital for individuals and groups to be able to safeguard the security and privacy of their information.

Internet safety

Surveillance is not safety. Safety for whom, against what? This complex problem is more likely to be exacerbated, rather than solved, by measures that allow for unaccountable surveillance and the undermining of communications security.

Surveillance

EFA is committed to ensuring that Australian’s home life is not subject to arbitrary interference.