EFA joins Global Call to World Leaders to Support Strong Encryption

Today Electronic Frontiers Australia joins experts and organisations in more than 35 countries in asking world leaders to support strong encryption and to reject any law, policy, or mandate that would undermine digital security. This open letter is now open to public support and is hosted at: SecureTheInternet.org. In countries including France, India, the UK, […]

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.  

EFA calls on Australian government to protect privacy against unchecked Internet surveillance

Today Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), Australia’s leading voice for Digital Rights since 1994, joins a huge international coalition in calling upon governments around the world to assess whether national surveillance laws and activities are in line with their international human rights obligations. EFA has endorsed a set of international principles against unchecked surveillance. The 13 […]

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 […]