ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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Election 2013: Greens, Pirate Party rate highest on digital rights
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), Australia’s leading voice for digital rights since 1994, today released an election scorecard rating a number of national political parties on a range of policies relating to digital rights. The Australian Greens and the Pirate Party Australia were the only parties whose policies were reviewed that…
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Thinking of using a VPN? Check the privacy policy first
With new threats to online freedoms appearing with frightening regularity (from SOPA to ACTA, and from the TPP to the recent PRISM scandal), it’s logical to assume internet users will increasingly turn toward privacy tools to protect their online data over the coming years. While the free-to-use TOR platform remains…
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Electoral silence on digital rights from both politicians and journalists
This article by EFA Board Member Sean Rintel was originally published on The Conversation. See the original article . Where is the election reporting on digital rights? Flickr: g4ll4is We’ve had #stopthenotes, #suppositories, and #sexappeal to keep us amused, but since the election campaign period began there has been very…
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Fair Use is NOT Theft
The following post is a response from EFA Board Member Angela Daly to an article by Linda Jaivin, ‘Long story short: Fair Use is theft by any other name’ that was published in the Fairfax media on 31 July 2013. As an academic researcher working on intellectual property law and policy at…
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3D Printing: legal and regulatory issues
Recently. EFA board member Angela Daly presented to Deakin Law School on the issue of ‘legal and regulatory issues for 3D printing’. After a brief description of how 3D printers work as well as the 3D printer ecosystem of manufacturers, user and creator initiatives like RepRap and online design repositories,…
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XKeyscore: collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
Edward Snowden’s latest leak confirms the existence of an NSA program that allows analysts to search through vast databases about internet user’s activity without any prior authorisation. This program, known as XKeyscore, is the NSA’s “widest-reaching” surveillance system for tracking activity on the Internet. As Snowden told The Guardian back in June:…