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 […]
SA Social Media Ban
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has looked at what eSafety are doing — including getting into stupid fights with Musk — and decided to make a big show of telling social media platforms to do what they’re doing anyway. This is already a won battle. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the U.S. […]
Supporting Families, Protecting Privacy: Why a Social Media Ban Misses the Mark
Electronic Frontiers Australia (‘EFA’) believes the Prime Minister’s proposed bill to ban young people from social media is a tactic to pave the way for unpopular Digital ID for adults. The default minimum age for social media platforms is already 13 to comply with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits the […]
EFA Highlights Significant Risks of New Internet Law
EFA fears that any doxxing law will become a tool for suppressing protest, rather than a shield for those engaging in protest.
Privacy Act Leaves Aussie Kids Unprotected from Rising Online Threats
Australia should not be a country that allows young people to be inducted into a digital world characterised by extremism and misinformation.
