Stories about: Electronic Frontiers Australia

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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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    Protests make clean-feed Internet a mess for govt 15/12/2008 09:41:00

    Protests erupted across Australian capital cities on Saturday in opposition to the government's $70 million national clean feed Internet scheme, which will impose blanket content filtering for all Web connections.
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    Businesses get green light on IM interception 14/04/2008 19:21:33

    Businesses will be able to intercept e-mail and instant messaging communications under proposed changes by the federal government to prevent data leakage.
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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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    Aussie anti-spam law working, NZ to follow suit 12/07/2006 12:19:31

    Spam volumes in Australia continue to be high, but the proportion of worldwide spam coming from Australia has dropped since the passing of the Spam Act in 2003, says the Australian government's Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA).
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    Consumer groups resisted over Kazaa 23/03/2005 16:12:32

    Consumer groups' support of Kazaa met strong resistance at the closely watched Kazaa court trial on Tuesday, as the music industry claimed the peer-to-peer software was not a community interest.
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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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    Key loggers, ISPs may breach Act 06/08/2003 15:45:46

    Private sector organisations are conducting their own cybercrime investigations with little regard for legal sanctions including the Telecommunications (Interception) Act, it was revealed in a parliamentary hearing into cybercrime.
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    Human rights groups slam cyber crime pact 19/10/2000 17:08:56

    Human rights and information freedom organisations from several countries are attacking a planned international convention on cyber crime. In an open letter Wednesday, the groups told the Council of Europe, which completed a draft text for the convention on October 2, that the pact poses a threat to individual liberties.
 
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