The Day The World Fought Back
In the last year, the world has learned that mass surveillance by governments knows no bounds. Today, 11th February, internet users around the world are standing together. Individuals, civil society organisations, and thousands of websites will let the world’s governments know that we reject global mass surveillance at home and overseas. Today, we fight back. […]
EFA Speak Out #3: Danny O’Brien
As part of our participation in The Day We Fight Back, EFA is very proud to present our next EFA Speak Out, featuring Danny O'Brien. Danny is the International Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), was a co-founder of the UK's Open Rights Group (ORG) and has been a leading activist for digital rights for […]
EFA Applauds Surveillance Inquiry
Australians are finally getting the surveillance inquiry that they deserve. We are citizens, not suspects. Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) congratulates the cooperative effort of Australian Greens and the Australian Labor Party in initiating a Senate inquiry into the reach, warranting, and oversight procedures in the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act. EFA has called for a surveillance inquiry […]
Speak Out 1 Video: Senator Scott Ludlam
Electronic Frontiers Australia was honoured to host Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam as our first guest in our Speak Out event series. EFA Speak Out events use Google Hangout On Air to showcase a local or international guest discussing and answering questions about online rights. Senator Ludlam has been one of Australia’s strongest political voices […]
Australians deserve a surveillance oversight inquiry
Ever since Edward Snowden’s first NSA spying revelations, the Australian Signals Directorate (formerly Defence Signals Directorate, DSD hereafter) has been implicated as a complicit ‘Five Eyes‘ partner. The Guardian has today released shocking new information from Snowden showing just how complicit DSD has been. These latest revelations involve documentation of a ‘Five Eyes‘ information sharing meeting hosted by Britain’s GCHQ […]