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 […]
Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
This is a modified version of an article first published by Danny O’Brien on EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 25th October 2013. See the original article. One of the trends we’ve seen is how, as the word of the NSA’s spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can […]
**EXTENDED** Membership Offer – join EFA and receive a free eBook
NOW EXTENDED TO END OCTOBER!! Have you thought about joining EFA but need a little nudge? This weekend month, we’ve got a great offer. Every new Standard or Life Member who joins before midnight Sunday (05/10/13) Thursday 31/10/2013 will receive a free eBook. Two randomly selected Concession Members (each week) will also receive the eBook. The eBook, […]
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 […]
Perfect Forward Secrecy: an Important Web Privacy Protection
This is a modified version of an article first published by Parker Higgins on EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 28th August 2013. See the original article. When you access a Web site over an encrypted connection, you’re using a protocol called HTTPS. But not all HTTPS connections are created equal. In the first few milliseconds after […]