EFA elects first female leadership team
Electronic Frontiers Australia, the country’s leading digital rights organisation, is proud to announce that its Board has elected its first female leadership team. Lyndsey Jackson was elected unopposed as the new Chair of EFA at a Board meeting held on Sunday 15th October. Katherine Phelps was elected as the new vice-Chair. Lachlan Simpson was also […]
AGM 2017: documents published; Board election starts today.
All supporting documents for the 2017 AGM, including the Proxy Form, are now available on our 2017 AGM page. The AGM will be held (on Internet Relay Chat) at 15:00 AEDT on Sunday 8th October 2017. Proxy forms are due by 12:00 AEDT on Sunday 8th October 2017. The voting period for the election of […]
Reincorporation project
Members should be aware that a project is underway to reincorporate EFA as a Company Limited by Guarantee. As part of this process, a consultation period on a new Draft Constitution is now underway. Members are encouraged to review the Draft Constitution, along with detailed explanatory notes and the answers to questions already submitted on […]
Bytes & Rights 2017 – Perth
The Bytes and Rights 2017 conference is being held as part of the Festival of the Web, an 8-day series of international conferences in early April in Perth. See the full program of Festival of the Web events. Bytes and Rights is a conference focused on the many issues around how society responds to changing […]
“Everyone Made Themselves the Hero.” Remembering Aaron Swartz
On January 18, 2012, the Internet went dark. Hundreds of websites went black in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The bills would have created a “blacklist” of censored websites based on accusations of copyright infringement. SOPA was en route to quietly passing. But when millions of […]