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Aussie Internet ID plan draws scorn

An plan to require identity checks for Australian email users has been branded 'ludicrous' Read more

7 August, 2003 by Patrick Gray

Subcutaneous RFID tags upset privacy advocates

...on the agenda," the spokesperson said. Dale Clapperton, a board member for Electronic Frontiers Australia, a non-profit organisation that represents the on-line rights... Read more

15 October, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Porn access debate hots up in Australia

The Australian prime minister is looking at tightening legislation relating to underage access to online pornography, while ISPs argue that parents must take responsibility for their children's surfing Read more

4 March, 2003 by Patrick Gray

Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT minister

...Internet regulation, junk email and other issues. Civil liberties advocates such as Electronic Frontiers Australia have particularly criticised a law designed to regulate Internet content... Read more

29 November, 2002 by Cass Warneminde

ISPs may be forced to keep tabs on customers

Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia has spoken out against recommendations that could see Internet service... Read more

29 August, 2001 by Rachel Lebihan

Australian controversy over government Web censorship

...has been branded "government endorsed privatised censorship" by the civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA). The EFA is itself a victim of the draconian... Read more

3 July, 2000 by Rachel Lebihan

Aussie censors zap 27 sites

...and "sexual violence". Danny Yee, a board member of civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said the 27 takedown notices are small, considering that 200... Read more

20 March, 2000 by Joel Deane

Australia censors the Net

...s positive attitude, critics called for his resignation. Online civil liberties group, Electronic Frontiers Australia said the Senator should quit the IT portfolio. "He is... Read more

2 July, 1999 by Gordon Finlayson

Aussie ISPs held responsible for content

...of the existence of the material." In a statement issued Friday, the Electronic Frontiers Australia, an anti-censorship group, attacked Alston's regime as "ignorant... Read more

23 March, 1999 by Joel Deane

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