ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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Australia joins Open Government partnership
Electronic Frontiers Australia welcomes the Attorney-General’s recent announcement that Australia will join the Open Government Partnership. EFA have long campaigned for greater transparency in governance and decision making, particularly those matters relating to digital freedom, access and privacy. The announcement comes just days after it was revealed that the Australian Securities…
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s313 Website Blocking – the Plot Thickens
Under intense questioning from Greens Senator Scott Ludlam at Senate Estimates hearings this week, the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Environment has revealed that there are three agencies that have used section 313 of the Telecommunications Act to block websites. These agencies are ASIC, as publicised recently, the…
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EFA welcomes Privacy Breach legislation
EFA welcomes yesterday’s announcement by the Attorney-General that legislation is to be introduced to Federal Parliament today to introduce mandatory reporting of data breaches affecting private data. This legislation has been a long time coming, having first been recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission back in 2008, and EFA…
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Conroy calls for transparency on s313 website blocking
After lobbying by a number of internet users and civil liberties groups, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told Computerworld that he believes greater transparency is needed in relation to actions taken by government agencies to block access to websites. Referring to ASIC’s blocking of 1,200 sites as a “mistake”, he…
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TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Unsure about what the TPP is all about and why you should be concerned? Read this excellent article by EFA Board Member Angela Daly which analyses the threats that the TPP poses. Learn about the Our Fair Deal international coalition fighting against the inclusion of harsh copyright enforcement measures, of which…
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: a knockout blow for innovation?
By Angela Daly, Swinburne University of Technology. Angela is a Board Member of EFA. This article was originally published on 24th May 2013 in: Free trade: it sounds good for innovation, doesn’t it? Well, not necessarily – and here’s why. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free…