Individual Copyright Submissions
Submissions for the Government’s Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper closed at the start of the month. The Attorney-General’s department has arbitrarily decided to publish only the submissions written by organisations and not those from individual Australians. We know that many of you contributed, answering questions and offering critique and are probably disappointed that the Government has […]
October events: book now!
EFA is proud to present the following events in October. Book your tickets today! Brisbane: Julian Burnside Saturday, 11th October, 6.00pm for 7.00pm In conjunction with Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, this event will feature leading Human Rights lawyer Julian Burnside AO QC who will speak about the threat to civil liberties inherent in indiscriminate communications data retention and […]
It’s time for privacy invasion to be a legal wrong
It’s time for privacy invasion to be a legal wrong By Normann Witzleb, Monash University This post is reproduced under a Creative Commons license.and was originally posted at The Conversation. The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) yesterday recommended introducing new laws that would give a legal remedy for serious invasions of privacy. Unfortunately, the federal government […]
A step towards real privacy protection?
This article, by Alastair MacGibbon, from the University of Canberra’s Centre for Internet Safety, was originally published on The Conversation. See the original article. Alastair will be participating in a panel discussion in Canberra this Thursday about mandatory data retention and mass surveillance. Book your seat now! Civil action is the big stick needed to […]
Copyright Infringement Submission
We’ve completed our submission to the public consultation being conducted by the Attorney-General’s Department about online copyright infringement. Our primary points are: there has been no convincing, independent evidence presented that demonstrates that online copyright infringement is any more prevalent in Australia than in comparable countries. the proposals contained in the Department’s Discussion Paper (excluding the […]