Releases
Each of the these release links are to PDF documents.
9th November: EFA reiterates concerns about TPP copyright and ecommerce chapters
6th November: Australian Government must reinstate phone and internet access to asylum seekers
16th October: EFA elects first female leadership team
6th October: Australia’s leading privacy and civil liberties organisations condemn COAG face database decision
28th August: Digital rights organisations plead, yet again, to be heard as TPP11 countries meet in Sydney
28th August: Internet freedom and public interest groups pleads, yet again, to be heard as TPP11 countries meet in Sydney
29th June: 83 organisations and experts from “Five Eyes” nations demand respect for strong encryption
15th June: Copyright Amendment Bill passes: onwards to Fair Use
22nd May: Wikipedia Flies Flag for Fair Copyright in Australia
1st May: Data retention: universal warrant requirement is only effective protection
13th April: National Get a VPN Day
Mentions
28th October: The Saturday Paper
Turnbull sought GetUp! help before spill
18th October: Technology Decisions
First female leadership team installed at EFA
18th October: The Register
Domino’s Pizza delivers user details to spammers
18th October: The Mandarin
Link between Govpass and Medicare numbers stirs identity fraud anxiety
16th October: Gizmodo
Electronic Frontiers Australia Elects Its First Female Leadership Team
16th October: BayFM
Electronic Frontiers Australia Executive Officer Jon Lawrence explains civil liberty concerns over a national facial recognition database and what The Five Eyes are.
9th October: InnovationAus
Face biometric backlash begins
9th October: ABC Radio Brisbane
Executive Officer Jon Lawrence talks to Steve Austin about the government’s plans for a comprehensive facial recognition database. Starts at 39:14.
8th October: Daily Telegraph
Opinion: It’s a bit hypocritical to cry invasion of privacy
6th October: Australian Financial Review
George Orwell had nothing on what’s coming around the corner in facial recognition
6th October: RRR Midday News
RRR Midday News
6th October: Mashable
Another country is pushing for a national facial recognition database, and it includes driver’s licence photos
6th October: TechWireAsia
Australia moves towards mass surveillance with facial recognition database
6th October: itWire
Privacy groups slam COAG over face recognition database
4th October: InnovationAUS
Turnbull’s new face biometric plan
21st July: Student Edge
Dozens of Aussie Schools Introduce Tech to Monitor Students’ Internet Usage on Phones (In Class and at Home)
18th July: ABC News
Pornography: Support in Australia for compulsory age verification software on porn websites
18th July: News.com.au
UK to introduce porn ID checks by April 2018
17th July: RTRFM
Turnbull Proposes Encryption Laws
8th July: The Guardian
Data breaches undermine trust in government’s ability to protect our information
6th July: RedFlag
Weakening encryption is an attack on our freedom
5th July: Techly
Medicare breach raises concerns about the Australian Government’s grip on personal data
4th July: Newcastle Herald
Medicare breach sets off alarms over $1 billion e-health plan
4th July: ABC The World Today
Claims every Australian’s Medicare number available for purchase on ‘dark web’
4th July: The Guardian
Federal police asked to investigate darknet sale of Medicare data
2nd July: Radio National
Sunday Roundtable: Can law enforcement disrupt terrorists on the internet without hitting the rest of us?
30th June: itWire
Five Eyes nations urged to respect strong encryption
29th June: Books & Publishing
Copyright Agency, industry groups launch new campaign against fair use
16th June: ZDNet
Parliament passes digital fair dealing for Copyright Act
13th June: SBS News
Experts say breaking encryption problematic
13th June: SBS News
PM’s encryption battle
26th May: TechDirt
Wikipedians Join Push For Fair Use In Australia After Six Government Reports Recommend It
23rd May: Business Insider
Wikipedia says Australians ‘break the law everyday’ on copyright and has launched a reform campaign
23rd May: itWire
Wikipedia begins campaign for fair use copyright exceptions
22nd May: International Business Times
Wikipedia calls for Fair Use provision in Australia
22nd May: Gizmodo
Wikipedia Is Joining The Fight To Update Australia’s Fair Use Laws
22nd May: ABC Radio Melbourne
If you share memes or forward emails, you’re probably breaking Australia’s current copyright law
21st May: SMH
Fair Use: Wikipedia targets Australians in bid to change the law
18th May: ABC News
Experts urge social media users to check privacy settings and think before they post
4th May: Daily Telegraph
Jon Lawrence: National security? Data laws misused to spy. Opinion piece by EFA Executive Officer Jon Lawrence [pay-walled]
2nd May: advox – Global Voices
‘We Told You So’: Australian Federal Police Accessed Journalist’s Phone Records Illegally
1st May: itWire
EFA calls for ‘universal’ metadata warrants
27th April: ABC
FaceApp: Experts have privacy concerns about popular face transformation app
18th April: HuffPost Australia
Data Retention Laws Are Now In Effect And Here’s What You Need To Know
17th April: Sydney Criminal Lawyers
Government Lies About Metadata Scheme
17th April: Lifehacker
How to protect your metadata with a VPN
14th April: The Age
How to protect your metadata with a VPN
13th April: itWire
Today is National Get a VPN Day
13th April: ZDNet
Brandis rules out data retention in civil litigation
12th April: Techly
A practical guide to protecting your privacy online
3rd April: News.com.au
Calls to limit restrictions on use of personal data in Australia
25th January: ABC Radio National Breakfast
TPP opponents continue battle.
24th January: 3CR: Done by Law
Summer news update & review of mandatory data retention laws
18th January: Junkee
Surprise! The Government Is Proposing A Worrying Change To Those Data Retention Laws.
9th January: Daily Telegraph
Paranoid Aussies lock smartphones to hide naked selfies and block Facebook pranks.
6th January: Herald Sun
Advocates predict ‘abolition of privacy’ with mooted law changes in civil and family disputes.
4th January: Radio National Breakfast
Concerns of mission creep over metadata.
