ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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13 Principles Week of Action: Fighting Surveillance Law in Australia
This is a guest post from Angela Daly & Angus Murray, Members of the EFA Policy and research Standing Committee and is crossposed with EFF’s Deeplinks blog. 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…
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A step towards real privacy protection?
This article, by Alastair MacGibbon, from the University of Canberra’s Centre for Internet Safety, was originally published on The Conversation. See the original article. Alastair will be participating in a panel discussion in Canberra this Thursday about mandatory data retention and mass surveillance. Book your seat now! Civil action is…
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Copyright Infringement Submission
We’ve completed our submission to the public consultation being conducted by the Attorney-General’s Department about online copyright infringement. Our primary points are: there has been no convincing, independent evidence presented that demonstrates that online copyright infringement is any more prevalent in Australia than in comparable countries. the proposals contained in…
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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…
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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…