ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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Call for Nominations to Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. Board
Date of Issue: 04 October 2024 EFA members are invited to nominate for election to the Board. As per Rule 10.4 of the EFA Rules of Incorporation , there will be five vacant Board seats at the AGM. Nominations from new members (that join before the close of nominations) are…
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Electronic Frontiers Australia Demands Urgent Privacy Reform
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) acknowledges the initial privacy reforms tabled today by the Attorney General but strongly urges more immediate, decisive, and comprehensive action to bring Australia’s privacy laws into the 21st century and to shine a bright light on our surveillance-based data-extraction digital economy. While the long-awaited and passionately…
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SA Social Media Ban
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has looked at what eSafety are doing — including getting into stupid fights with Musk — and decided to make a big show of telling social media platforms to do what they’re doing anyway. This is already a won battle. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection…
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Supporting Families, Protecting Privacy: Why a Social Media Ban Misses the Mark
Electronic Frontiers Australia (‘EFA’) believes the Prime Minister’s proposed bill to ban young people from social media is a tactic to pave the way for unpopular Digital ID for adults. The default minimum age for social media platforms is already 13 to comply with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection…
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Minister Shorten: Why should Australians trust the Trusted Exchange System with our personal data?
This statement was written by EFA’s chair John Pane. Tuesday 13th August 2024, Minister for Government Services, Bill Shorten released details of the government’s new Trust Exchange system to extend the recently passed – and still flawed – Digital ID legislation. Little information outside the Minister’s speech is available. It…
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Vale Geordie Guy
We are deeply saddened to announce the sudden passing of Geordie Guy, a passionate advocate for digital rights and a dedicated former Vice-Chair and Board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia (‘EFA‘). Geordie was a very effective Vice-Chair in the period when EFA was heavily involved in the fight against Stephen…
