ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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New Leaked TPP Chapter Shows Countries Converging on Anti-User Copyright Takedown Rules
A draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership‘s “Intellectual Property” chapter from May 11, 2015 has recently been leaked to journalists. This is the fourth leak of the chapter following earlier drafts of October 2014, August 2013, and February 2011. The latest leak is not available online and we don’t have a…
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Save Domain Privacy
There is a serious threat to domain name privacy, and you can help. As you may have heard, an ICANN working group is considering how privacy and proxy services should work for domain names. It will cover all generic domain names, so not necessarily country domains such as .au, but…
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NSW Officials Attack Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities
This article, by Farbod Faraji, was originally published on EFF’s Deeplinks blog. It has been slightly modified for context. See the original article. A security flaw in New South Wales’ Internet voting system may have left as many as 66,000 votes vulnerable to interception and manipulation in a recent election,…
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The security paradox: individual privacy versus digital driftnets
This article, by Suelette Dreyfus, University of Melbourne and Shanton Chang, University of Melbourne was originally published in The Conversation. See the original article. The great irony of the Abbott government’s plan enforce the mandatory data retention legislation is that while this is being done to make us safer, in fact…
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Go dark today against data retention
The Government’s data retention scheme looks set to pass the Senate this week with Labor’s support. This scheme is rushed, costly, ineffective, and against the public interest. Also, absurdly, the flawed legislation leaves open numerous loopholes, which can be used to evade the scheme. This means the data retention dragnet…
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Data Retention Vote This Week: Call Your MP Today!
The government is pressing ahead with its plans to rush the data retention legislation through the Parliament, with a vote due in the House of Representatives this week. This is despite them having not yet published their amendments resulting from the Intelligence & Security Committee’s recommendations. That Committee has also…