Hacking the Grapevine: Data Retention & Protecting Consumer Privacy
David Seidler, who recently undertook a Google-sponsored internship at ACCAN, last month published a paper titled ‘Hacking the Grapevine: Data retention and protecting Australian consumer privacy‘. In it, Seidler examines the potential advantages and disadvantages of a mandatory communications data retention regime as the government has recently proposed. Arguments For Mandatory data retention is of great benefit to the […]
New threat to Australian sovereignty in TPP negotiations
This article, by Jeremy Malcolm and Maira Sutton, was originally published in EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 14th August 2014. See the original article. Certification Allows US Trade Negotiators to Rewrite TPP Copyright Rules As the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) continue to trudge along, little new information has leaked because the negotiations are […]
EFA launches caniwatchit.com.au
EFA, Australia’s leading voice for digital rights since 1994, is today launching caniwatchit.com.au, a website that provides information about the legal availability in Australia of the top ten most infringed movies worldwide. EFA has also published a submission guide for people interested in responding to the government’s Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper. As the caniwatchit.com.au […]
EFF’s Jillian York & Crikey’s Bernard Keane on data retention
On 24th July, EFA held our first Citizens, Not Suspects event, hosted by Electron Workshop in Melbourne, which featured EFF’s Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian York in conversation with Crikey’s politics editor Bernard Keane. This edited video is provided courtesy of Crikey.
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