Corrupted Nerds: Metadata & surveillance with Carly Nyst

Last week, Stilgherrian joined Privacy International’s Legal Director Carly Nyst in Sydney to discuss data retention and surveillance. He’s edited that conversation into his latest Corrupted Nerds podcast, which we encourage you to listen to: Conversations 12: Metadata & surveillance with Carly Nyst.

Hacking the Grapevine: Data Retention & Protecting Consumer Privacy

David Seidler, who recently undertook a Google-sponsored internship at ACCAN, last month published a paper titled ‘Hacking the Grapevine: Data retention and protecting Australian consumer privacy‘. In it, Seidler examines the potential advantages and disadvantages of a mandatory communications data retention regime as the government has recently proposed. Arguments For Mandatory data retention is of great benefit to the […]

EFF’s Jillian York & Crikey’s Bernard Keane on data retention

On 24th July, EFA held our first Citizens, Not Suspects event, hosted by Electron Workshop in Melbourne, which featured EFF’s Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian York in conversation with Crikey’s politics editor Bernard Keane. This edited video is provided courtesy of Crikey.  

EFA’s testimony to the Senate TIA Act Inquiry

On 29th July 2014, EFA Executive Officer Jon Lawrence and Alex Vulkanovski from EFA’s Policy & Research Standing Committee testified before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee in relation to the Committee’s Inquiry into the Comprehensive revision of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. Read EFA’s submission to the Inquiry [PDF, 571KB] Here is an extract from […]