ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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Diverse international coalition warns about copyright dangers in TPP
Social media companies, entrepreneurs, investors, and Internet user groups speak out about copyright dangers in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement With secretive TPP talks intensifying in Ottawa Canada, business leaders have sent a letter raising concerns about how the TPP could force online service providers to act as Internet cops,…
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Police using mobile phone tower dumps for fishing expeditions
Fairfax Media is today reporting that Australian police are receiving metadata dumps from mobile phone towers. These data dumps provide information about “the identity, activity and location of any phone that connects to targeted cell towers over a set span of time, generally an hour or two. A typical dump…
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What Does Copyright Have to Do With ‘Free Trade’?
This article, by Jeremy Malcolm, was originally published on EFF’s Deeplinks Blog. Jeremy is a former EFA Board Member and is currently Senior Global Policy Analyst at EFF. See the original article. What Does Copyright Have to Do With “Free Trade”? Unpicking the Undemocratic Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Democracy…
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Next tranche of new surveillance powers [Updated]
[Update: in a doorstop interview on 2nd July, Attorney-General Brandis said the following: ATTORNEY-GENERAL: Legislation that I will be introducing into the Senate in the week after next will give effect to the recommendations, the 21 recommendations in Chapter-Four of the Joint Parliamentary Committee Report on Intelligence and Security. That…
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A small step towards fair use; a giant leap for the visually impaired
EFA welcomes the government’s announcement that Australia has finally signed the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. This treaty is the result of many years of hard work from disability advocates and public institutions. It will give Australia’s blind and visually…
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Debrief from Brazil: 3rd June
The Internet Society of Australia, in conjunction with auDA, APNIC and the Federal Department of Communications are holding a ‘debrief’ on the Net Mundial: Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, held last month in Sao Paolo, Brazil. This session will cover what happened, and what we can…