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Elections

Electronic Frontiers Australia Announces 2025 Board Members

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) held its Annual General Meeting in November 2024, resulting in the election of new board members for 2025. We are excited to welcome Andrew Scott, Bianca Gay, Jarrod Loidl and Andrew Roffey to the Board.  Meet the New Board Members Andrew Scott Bianca Gay Jarrod Loidl Andrew Roffey Members Re-elected Congratulations to the following members on their re-election: New Officers Appointed We bid farewell to Erica Mealy, Amy Patterson and Fahad

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Facial Recognition

Bunnings Violated Your Privacy: What You Need to Know

Finally! This month, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind ruled that Bunnings’ facial recognition system violated the privacy of millions of Australians.   The OAIC found that the use of facial recognition was also found to be disproportionate to the risk of violence or theft in retail stores. Electronic Frontiers Australia welcomes the decision as a step in the right direction.  We hope this ruling will send a loud message to other retailers and corporations: stay away

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EFA’s submission to rushed inquiry into the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024

With a complete disregard for democratic processes, the Government has pushed ahead with their Social Media age verification legislation giving the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications 5 working days to undertake inquiry and report back their findings.   EFA received the email inviting submissions to the inquiry at 13:45 on Thursday 21st November 2024, closing on 22nd November 2024. In response to our questions, we can confirm this was not a mistake, and

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Online Safety

Major Privacy Threat: EFA Condemns Government’s Social Media Age Ban

Electronic Frontiers Australia condemns the government’s recent confirmation of a social media ban for under-16s.  We firmly oppose any age-based restrictions that intrude on young Australians’ privacy, digital rights, and access to potentially life-saving information. “This ban represents an authoritarian and unnecessary step toward government intrusion into the online lives of young Australians, undermining their rights without adequate privacy and other  protections,” said John Pane, Chair of EFA. When does Australia’s social media ban start?

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Notice of Annual General Meeting 2024.

The EFA Annual General Meeting will be held online (Zoom) on Saturday, 16th November 2024. Time: We encourage members to participate in the AGM. It is anticipated to last no more than 1.5 hours. Meeting Agenda The meeting will consider the following matters. Board member elections and candidates There are five vacancies for the EFA Board, as per Rule 10 of the EFA Rules of Incorporation. The following candidates are nominated for election to the

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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.

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