ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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Corrupted Nerds: Metadata & surveillance with Carly Nyst
Last week, Stilgherrian joined Privacy International’s Legal Director Carly Nyst in Sydney to discuss data retention and surveillance. He’s edited that conversation into his latest Corrupted Nerds podcast, which we encourage you to listen to: Conversations 12: Metadata & surveillance with Carly Nyst.
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2014 AGM: Call for Nominations
EFA’s 2014 Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday 23rd November in Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Nominations for the five vacant Board seats are now being sought from financial members. Self-nomination is acceptable and encouraged. If you are unsure of your membership status, or if you have not already…
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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…
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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…
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#5 Safeguards for International Cooperation. Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Law
This is a guest post from Angela Daly & Angus Murray, Members of the EFA Policy and research Standing Committee. Angela is also a member of Australian Privacy Foundation’s board of directors. Between 15th-19th of September, in the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary and Proportionate…
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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…