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 […]
Thinking of using a VPN? Check the privacy policy first
With new threats to online freedoms appearing with frightening regularity (from SOPA to ACTA, and from the TPP to the recent PRISM scandal), it’s logical to assume internet users will increasingly turn toward privacy tools to protect their online data over the coming years. While the free-to-use TOR platform remains the most popular way to […]
XKeyscore: collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
Edward Snowden’s latest leak confirms the existence of an NSA program that allows analysts to search through vast databases about internet user’s activity without any prior authorisation. This program, known as XKeyscore, is the NSA’s “widest-reaching” surveillance system for tracking activity on the Internet. As Snowden told The Guardian back in June: “I, sitting at my desk,” […]
Human Rights and Communications Surveillance
Electronic Frontiers Australia this week signed onto the International Principles of the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance, a set of international due process principles designed to protect privacy in the face of government surveillance. The 13 point statement of principles is intended to explain how existing human rights standards, international law and jurisprudence […]
Folsom PRISM Blues: Nine reasons you don’t have “nothing to hide”
By Sean Rintel, The University of Queensland & EFA Board Member. This article (with different images) was originally published on 11th June 2013 in: In the wake of former CIA employee Edward Snowden’s revelations of the PRISM NSA mass surveillance, people are once again asking why the general public should care if they’ve got […]