Stories about: EFA

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    Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 03/04/2009 11:11:00

    If you fell in love with Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 but found its controls and replay value lacking, you'll be quite pleased with Pro Evolution Soccer 2009. Improved controls, the addition the Master League and the UEFA Champions League, as well as an attractive price tag make this year's Pro Evo an evolutionary step forward for the series on the Wii.
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    Australia's Web blacklist leaked 19/03/2009 12:57:00

    The secretive Internet filter blacklist held by the communications watchdog ACMA has been leaked, revealing the government has understated the amount of banned Web pages by more than 1000.
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    Australia's Internet filter ruled by a single bureaucrat 18/03/2009 12:02:00

    No accountability for blacklists, yet Watchdog's word is final.
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    Micron flash chip offloads memory management for portables 13/03/2009 07:54:00

    Flash memory maker Micron Technology said that it will ship a new high-density flash memory chip for portable media players that relieves mobile processors of NAND management functions.
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    Strange bedfellows: Sex and IT unite to stop Net censorship 14/01/2009 11:15:00

    Who would have thought the government's proposed Internet filtering scheme would bring together so many disparate groups all united in their opposition to mandatory censorship?
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    In Conroy’s muddy waters you'll never know what’s being filtered 28/10/2008 09:30:00

    An Australian law expert has warned that under the government’s proposed mandatory Internet content filtering scheme Australians will have no way of finding out what “illegal” content has been censored and blocked online, while Greens Senator Scott Ludlam voiced his concern over Senator Conroy’s ambiguity regarding exactly what content will or won’t be blocked, and who will be able to opt-out of the filtering.
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    Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look 13/05/2008 10:32:56

    James Fallows, national correspondent for US publication The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that country. Based in Beijing, Fallows has researched the underlying technology that the Chinese use for Internet censorship, and he explained it in a recent article titled "The Connection Has Been Reset." We e-mailed Fallows questions about how the Chinese government controls Internet content available to its citizens, and here's what he had to say (Check out our slideshow on the 10 ways the Chinese Internet is different from yours).
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    Great wall of Australia: Industry rejects sanitised Internet 14/01/2008 11:32:00

    Internet Service Providers (ISPs), IT managers and the Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have slammed the federal government's national content filtering scheme and dubbed it a technically impossible token gesture.
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    2Clix lawsuit a 'chilling' attack on free speech 14/09/2007 15:14:33

    The lawsuit filed by 2Clix against Whirlpool forum creator, Simon Wright, could have a "chilling effect" on reasonable and factual comments people may make on Internet forums, according to David Vaile, executive director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW.
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    Privacy advocates rip into ISP cybercrime code 21/08/2003 09:32:37

    A draft cybercrime code of practice that would require member ISPs to log subscriber usage for up to 12 months is contrary to privacy principles, claims Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).
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    Civil liberties group slams Internet ID proposal 08/08/2003 08:11:12

    A proposal to make it as difficult for Australians to open an Internet account as to open a bank account has drawn stinging criticism from online civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).
 
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