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EFA Applauds Surveillance Inquiry
Australians are finally getting the surveillance inquiry that they deserve. We are citizens, not suspects. Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) congratulates the cooperative effort of Australian Greens and the Australian Labor Party in initiating a Senate inquiry into the reach, warranting, and oversight procedures in the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act. EFA has called for a surveillance inquiry several times since the since the revelations of Edward Snowden (1, 2, 3). Similarly, the Greens,…
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Speak Out 1 Video: Senator Scott Ludlam
Electronic Frontiers Australia was honoured to host Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam as our first guest in our Speak Out event series. EFA Speak Out events use Google Hangout On Air to showcase a local or international guest discussing and answering questions about online rights. Senator Ludlam has been one of Australia’s strongest political voices for online rights. Senator Ludlam discussed a wide range of digital rights issues, some hot off…
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Vale Nelson Mandela, Icon of Freedom
Electronic Frontiers Australia joins the world in mourning the passing of Nelson Mandela. Mr Mandela was an icon in the fight for freedom, which now includes online freedom of access and expression, and freedom from censorship, surveillance, and oppression. EFA finds these words from Mr Mandela’s autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom” to be particularly poignant at this time in the fight for online freedom: “For to be free is not merely…
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Australians deserve a surveillance oversight inquiry
Ever since Edward Snowden’s first NSA spying revelations, the Australian Signals Directorate (formerly Defence Signals Directorate, DSD hereafter) has been implicated as a complicit ‘Five Eyes‘ partner. The Guardian has today released shocking new information from Snowden showing just how complicit DSD has been. These latest revelations involve documentation of a ‘Five Eyes‘ information sharing meeting hosted by Britain’s GCHQ at its headquarters in Cheltenham on 22-23 April, 2008. Of all the security agencies involved, the…
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An open letter from the Our Fair Deal Coalition to TPP trade ministers
The Our Fair Deal Coalition, an international group of civil society groups and commercial enterprises from across the countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations, has today written to responsible ministers in each of the TPP countries, calling on them to reject copyright proposals that would limit the open Internet, access to knowledge, and curtail economic opportunity. The Australian members of the Our Fair Deal Coaltion are EFA,…
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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.