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.
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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 […]
No justification for society-wide mandatory data retention scheme
EFA is alarmed that Cabinet’s National Security Committee has signed off on the fast-track implementation of a mandatory data retention scheme, apparently citing the ‘rising threat of home grown terrorism’. The Daily Telegraph reports [paywalled] that the government is believed to be seeking “an interim data retention measure…to be introduced as early as September to […]