ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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Is someone really trying to find out if they can destroy the internet?
A prolonged Internet outage affecting major sites like Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and The New York Times on friday has commentators concerned that this is was a practice run for future, more widespread disruption of the internet. The distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) targeted the dynamic domain name service provider…
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The IANA transition – an explainer
The IANA transition is an important event that is vital for the Internet, but if you hadn’t been told about it you wouldn’t notice it. The change is fundamental, but will change relatively little day to day. IANA is a collection of jobs, mostly administrative, that sit at the core…
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Census 2016: what you need to know
We are not the ABS, and we can’t help you obtain a paper form or login details for the census. We know that a lot of people have been having trouble getting through to the ABS and/or haven’t received a form or their login details. According to the ABC,…
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Election 2016 Scorecard
Recently, we released our Election 2016 scorecard. We were really pleased to see a lot of substantive and thoughtful replies from the smaller parties. As in 2013, Pirate Party Australia and the Australian Greens have scored full marks. For the first time this year, the Science Party and the Liberal…
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An Open Letter to the Liberal and Labor Parties on copyright reform
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), Australia’s leading digital rights advocacy organisation, has long campaigned for positive reform to Australia’s Copyright Act. EFA believes that Australia’s Copyright Act is unnecessarily inflexible and no longer fit for purpose in an increasingly digital world. This inflexibility means that technological and service innovations are often…
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An Open Letter to the Liberal and Labor Parties on encryption and privacy technologies
In January 2016 Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), along with the Australian Privacy Foundation, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, BluePrint for Free Speech and FutureWise wrote to Prime Minister Turnbull asking for his support for strong encryption and for his commitment to reject any law, policy or mandate that would undermine…