13 Principles Week of Action: Fighting Surveillance Law in Australia
This is a guest post from Angela Daly & Angus Murray, Members of the EFA Policy and research Standing Committee and is crossposed with EFF’s Deeplinks blog. Angela is also a member of Australian Privacy Foundation’s board of directors. Between 15th-19th of September, in the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary […]
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.
Say NO to mandatory data retention!
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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 […]