EFA Welcomes Government Action on Privacy as an Overdue First Step
Electronic Frontiers Australia welcomes the Australian government’s moves to change the incentives for how organisations manage Australians’ personal information.
EFA Statement on Optus Data Breach
The Optus data breach shows that individual action cannot protect us from systemic problems. We need systemic action.
EFA Statement Regarding Cloudflare
Electronic Frontiers Australia calls on Cloudflare to provide a detailed statement of reasons that explain its approach to balancing competing rights and interests.
Click-to-Lie With a Password Manager
Sketchy marketers, surveillance capitalists, and all manner of dodgy dealers like to ask intrusive questions you shouldn’t have to answer. Unfortunately, the magic* of computers means the forms they make you use can require certain fields to be filled in. Unlike a paper form, you can’t just leave them blank, but there is something you […]
The democratic obligation to repeal authoritarian laws
A society’s norms can shift fast. In the last decade, compulsory metadata retention for broad surveillance purposes has gone from a controversy to a scandal, to a fact of Australian life, to an insufficient power that needs to be augmented by yet more invasive ones. Military control over cryptography and other exports has gone from […]