Data Retention – Its Not Where You Go, But Who You Talk To
This article, by Luke Heemsbergen was originally published at The Interdisciplinary Internet Institute. It has been edited slightly to better address a domestic audience. See the original article. Data retention may well be a valuable resource to fight serious crime and terrorism, but it’s not, when, if you decide to be a terrorist, you can also decide to evade […]
Ludlam demolishes data retention bill
At the end of January, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) held two days of hearings into the government’s data retention legislation (transcripts here and here). These hearings were at times a testy affair, with a number of Coalition members particularly being openly antagonistic to privacy advocates, including EFA’s Jon Lawrence (see […]
EFA’s testimony to the Senate TIA Act Inquiry
On 29th July 2014, EFA Executive Officer Jon Lawrence and Alex Vulkanovski from EFA’s Policy & Research Standing Committee testified before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee in relation to the Committee’s Inquiry into the Comprehensive revision of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. Read EFA’s submission to the Inquiry [PDF, 571KB] Here is an extract from […]
WA Senate Re-election scorecard
As we’ve done with previous federal polls, EFA has rated a selection of the parties contesting this Saturday’s Western Australian half-Senate re-election. The Greens and the Pirate Party remain the stand-out choices for people concerned about digital rights, however the Secular Party, the Sex Party and the Wikileaks Party all score well, but have not articulated […]
EFA awards Senator for achievements in digital rights
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said today that he was humbled to receive Electronic Frontiers Australia’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement award for services to digital rights at their 20th anniversary celebrations tonight. Founded in January 1994 to protect and promote the civil liberties of electronic communications systems users, EFA has grown to become the major voice in […]
