Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT minister
News Civil liberties advocates such as Electronic Frontiers Australia have particularly criticised a law designed to regulate Internet content, which led to the American Civil Liberties Union referring to Australia as a "global village idiot".
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
ISPs may be forced to keep tabs on customers
News Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia has spoken out against recommendations that could see Internet service providers forced to put their customers under constant surveillance. Currently, the interception of telephone communication...
[August 29, 2001, 14:26]
Aussie censors zap 27 sites
News Danny Yee, a board member of civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said the 27 takedown notices are small, considering that 200,000 Web sites hosted in Australia. If there's any confusion, though, it's largely the fault of Australia...
[March 20, 2000, 9:13]
Aussie ISPs held responsible for content
News In a statement issued Friday, the Electronic Frontiers Australia, an anti-censorship group, attacked Alston's regime as "ignorant" and "draconian" -- claiming it will make material that is legal offline illegal on the Internet.
[March 23, 1999, 7:48]
Subcutaneous RFID tags upset privacy advocates
News Dale Clapperton, a board member for Electronic Frontiers Australia, a non-profit organisation that represents the on-line rights and freedoms of Internet users, said he is just as worried about RFID chips being used in every day objects such as...
[October 15, 2004, 11:40]
Australian controversy over government Web censorship
News In Australia the Code of Practice that forces ISPs to filter information on the Web has been branded "government endorsed privatised censorship" by the civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).
[July 3, 2000, 9:31]
Australia censors the Net
News Online civil liberties group, Electronic Frontiers Australia said the Senator should quit the IT portfolio. Australia is in the middle of a censorship war that could get nasty. Although the law has passed through parliament, exact details of the...
[July 2, 1999, 9:16]
Porn access debate hots up in Australia
News Electronic Frontiers Australia, an online civil liberties organisation, also slammed current legislation and recommended that it be repealed, however they stopped short of suggesting that ISP's be forced to implement across the board filtering.
[March 4, 2003, 8:33]
