Bunnings Violated Your Privacy: What You Need to Know
Finally! This month, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind ruled that Bunnings’ facial recognition system violated the privacy of millions of Australians. The OAIC found that the use of facial recognition was also found to be disproportionate to the risk of violence or theft in retail stores. Electronic Frontiers Australia welcomes the decision as a step […]
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 […]
Minister Shorten: Why should Australians trust the Trusted Exchange System with our personal data?
This statement was written by EFA’s chair John Pane. Tuesday 13th August 2024, Minister for Government Services, Bill Shorten released details of the government’s new Trust Exchange system to extend the recently passed – and still flawed – Digital ID legislation. Little information outside the Minister’s speech is available. It remains unclear if this is […]
EFA Weighs In on Privacy and Digital Rights News
Here’s a roundup of where Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) stands on key issues in the world of digital rights and privacy: EFA on Elon Musk’s X Harvesting User Data: EFA’s chair, John Pane, called the argument that users could reasonably expect their data to be used for training AI models “total BS.” “Using a person’s […]
Surveillance Was In The DNA Of Breached Medtech
Following the MediSecure breach, EFA slams unethical surveillance tech trials on Indigenous communities.
