Electronic Frontiers Australia Demands Urgent Privacy Reform
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) acknowledges the initial privacy reforms tabled today by the Attorney General but strongly urges more immediate, decisive, and comprehensive action to bring Australia’s privacy laws into the 21st century and to shine a bright light on our surveillance-based data-extraction digital economy. While the long-awaited and passionately fought-for proposed statutory tort and children’s code are potentially positive steps, Australia remains far behind other nations in terms of data privacy as a fundamental