WCIT: Freemasons, Internet memes and salt
Digital Consumers by Dr Jeremy Malcolm IN THE wake of the anti-climactic conclusion to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) earlier this month, readers could be forgiven for being confused about whether all the hype about the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) staging a UN takeover of the Internet had ever represented a real threat, […]
The Trade Disagreement: Opposition Grows to Controversial Treaty
As the 15th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations draws to a close today, the Internet freedom community is taking stock of what was said, and perhaps more significantly, what wasn’t. Developments over the last few weeks have suggested that the controversial treaty may be losing steam as public opposition gains […]
Two big threats to Internet Freedom this week
This week sees two international meetings which both contain within them significant threats to internet freedom. ITU In Dubai, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is meeting, and will be considering changes to the current structure of global internet governance. The ITU is a state-based treaty organisation, that falls within the United Nations system, and has been […]
EFA welcomes the government’s back down on mandatory internet filtering
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) welcomes today’s announcement by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy that the government has finally abandoned its plans to introduce mandatory internet filtering. EFA, through its Open Internet campaign, was one of the many civil society groups that campaigned hard against this policy over a number of years. The internet is built […]
EFA members elected to ACCAN Board
EFA congratulates two of our life members, Marcus Wigan (current Vice-Chair of EFA) and Nigel Waters, on their election to the Board of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), Australia’s peak consumer body for telecommunications, broadband and other emerging services. Both Marcus and Nigel are long-standing privacy advocates, and Marcus is also an active advocate […]