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    A step towards real privacy protection?

    This article, by Alastair MacGibbon, from the University of Canberra’s Centre for Internet Safety, was originally published on The Conversation. See the original article. Alastair will be participating in a panel discussion in Canberra this Thursday about mandatory data retention and mass surveillance. Book your seat now! Civil action is the big stick needed to protect our privacy Never mind the celebrities; let’s say you and I had naked photos…

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    Copyright Infringement Submission

    We’ve completed our submission to the public consultation being conducted by the Attorney-General’s Department about online copyright infringement. Our primary points are: there has been no convincing, independent evidence presented that demonstrates that online copyright infringement is any more prevalent in Australia than in comparable countries. the proposals contained in the Department’s Discussion Paper (excluding the extension of the safe harbour provisions, which we support) are unlikely to be effective in…

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    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 early stages of investigations. Seidler cites Professor Michael Fraser: “if law enforcement has a reasonable…

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    New threat to Australian sovereignty in TPP negotiations

    This article, by Jeremy Malcolm and Maira Sutton, was originally published in EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 14th August 2014. See the original article. Certification Allows US Trade Negotiators to Rewrite TPP Copyright Rules As the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) continue to trudge along, little new information has leaked because the negotiations are being conducted under conditions of strict secrecy. But this week, the launch of the TPP:…

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    EFA launches caniwatchit.com.au

    EFA, Australia’s leading voice for digital rights since 1994, is today launching caniwatchit.com.au, a website that provides information about the legal availability in Australia of the top ten most infringed movies worldwide. EFA has also published a submission guide for people interested in responding to the government’s Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper. As the caniwatchit.com.au site shows, this week 70% of the 10 most pirated films are not legally available…

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    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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What We Do

Policy

We actively monitor a number of policy areas and specific issues. The topics below provide a detailed view of EFA’s policy positions.

Copyright

Australia’s copyright laws are outdated, inflexible and not fit for the digital age. As such, EFA is a long-standing supporter of reform of Australia’s Copyright Act.

Privacy & Security

Privacy is fundamentally about consent and control over access to information, and goes hand-in-hand with security. Privacy is a human right.

Censorship

Adults should be able to make their own informed decisions about what content they create and consume.

Encryption

Access to encryption technologies is vital for individuals and groups to be able to safeguard the security and privacy of their information.

Internet Safety

Surveillance is not safety. Safety for whom, against what? This complex problem is more likely to be exacerbated, rather than solved, by measures that allow for unaccountable surveillance and the undermining of communications security.

Surveillance

EFA is committed to ensuring that Australian’s home life is not subject to arbitrary interference.