The U.S. Reacts: Australia’s Attempt to Keep Kids off Social Media
We’ve made it onto the global stage—but not for reasons we’re proud of. When news broke of Australia’s social media ban, countries around the world picked up on a pattern. For one, as noted in Recorded Future News’ award-winning Click Here podcast, Australia has not only introduced one of the strictest digital laws—a social media […]
Major Privacy Threat: EFA Condemns Government’s Social Media Age Ban
Electronic Frontiers Australia condemns the government’s recent confirmation of a social media ban for under-16s. We firmly oppose any age-based restrictions that intrude on young Australians’ privacy, digital rights, and access to potentially life-saving information. “This ban represents an authoritarian and unnecessary step toward government intrusion into the online lives of young Australians, undermining their […]
Don’t Ban TikTok, Do This Instead
Concerned about TikTok’s security and privacy practices? Before you panic, read this.
Bots without borders: how anonymous accounts hijack political debate
A bot (short for robot) performs highly repetitive tasks by automatically gathering or posting information based on a set of algorithms. They can create new content and interact with other users like any human would. But the power is always with the individuals or organisations unleashing the bot. Politicalbots.org reported that approximately 19 million bot […]
Managing Privacy in the Social Media Age
‘Privacy is dead!’ This seems to be what we are continually told these days. Whether it is completely dead is questionable of course. It has certain taken some strong body blows over the last few decades; some of these unexpected and some that were essentially self inflicted. The concept of privacy as we know it […]
