EFA : Electronic Frontiers Australia

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Promoting and protecting digital rights in Australia since 1994. Support us at patreon.com/efa

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Nov 25, 2025	AI experts cautiously optimistic about Government’s AI Safety Institute announcement	The Australian Government announced it will establish an Institute (AISI), delivering on its commitments to AI safety and responding to calls from Australia’s AI safety community dating back to 2023. ”An AISI is one of the key measures expe...
Aug 15, 2025	EFA disputes privacy claims from Australian age tech trial findings
Sep 20, 2017	EFA members revolt as cash dries up	Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) is embroiled in an ugly behind-the-scenes row fuelled by concerns it is running short of money. The concerns were raised after comments by recently appointed treasurer Shaun Haddrill that the EFA's funds...
Aug 4, 2016	ThoughtWorks urges ABS to reverse Census names policy	Global software firm ThoughtWorks has lent its voice to the campaign against the Australian statistics body's move to retain names and addresses collected from this year's Census, calling on the ABS to reverse its decision immediately. The ...
Aug 3, 2016	Turnbull tries to allay growing Census fears	Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has sought to allay concerns about the privacy and security of the personal details collected under the Census as fears about the national poll continue to grow. His comments come as several MPs speak out aga...
Aug 1, 2016	ABS forced to defend Census website security	The Australian Bureau of Statistics has been forced to answer questions about the security of its online Census website after it was revealed to be using an insecure and deprecated form of encryption to protect the sensitive personal detail...
Feb 3, 2015	How will data retention laws cope with the Internet of Things?	One of the many things that is troubling about the current Australian government’s metadata retention proposals is how rooted in the past they are, which could make them obsolete before they even come into force. The Telecommunications Inte...
Aug 6, 2014	New Australian Anti-Terror Laws Could Bring the Mandatory Recording of Private Data	This article originally appeared on VICE Australia. At a joint press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Attorney General George Brandis, announced a further raft of proposals for an expansion of Austr...
Sep 24, 2012	A New Issue For Bitcoin: Crypto Key Disclosure	The debate is still raging whether Bitcoin is a brilliant idea that will revolutionize business and society, a high-tech money laundering scheme, or just a fad that will soon pass into history. But in a fascinating post, Jon Matonis points ...
Feb 20, 2011	Electronic Frontiers attacks AFACT over revenue loss figures	Electronic Frontiers Australia has attacked the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft over claims that electronic piracy is costing the economy more than $1.3 billion every year. In a blog post, EFA says the assumption is based on c...
Dec 6, 2010	Australia Might Finally Let Adults Play Video Games They Want To Play	As you may know, down in Australia, they have a ridiculous censorship policy on video games, where they don’t allow any video games that are deemed to be targeted at adults, even though plenty of adults play video games these days. Earlier ...
May 18, 2010	Challenge To Existing Australian Censorship Rules Rejected	While we’ve been covering the ongoing back and forth about proposed new internet censorship rules in Australia we didn’t quite realize that Australia already has internet censorship rules in place. Michael Scott points us to the news of Ele...
Mar 19, 2010	If ACTA Gets Approved, Expect China To Use It As Justification For Censorship	While one of ACTA’s biggest supporters, Rep. Howard Berman, is now pushing for laws to stop companies aiding in China’s censorship, he might want to consider that a better plan would be to back down on ACTA. If ACTA passes, it seems quite l...
Dec 28, 2009	BaconBits, A BitTorrent Tracker for Redditors Only	Social news sites like Reddit carry great influence and the capacity to mobilize thousands of people for causes deemed important by the masses. A perfect example of the efficiency and speed of Reddit users became apparent a few days ago whe...
Dec 15, 2008	Protest rally against Australian government plan to censor broadband	A new, left-of-center politician seizes power in a wave of change against an unpopular right-winger who supported the war in Iraq. With him comes sweeping new policies that could change the fabric of society. But this isn't America. It's Au...
Apr 14, 2008	Australian government wants power to snoop work e-mail, IMs	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit In the US, it's mostly assumed that when you work for a company, your e-mail, web, and chat traffic may be monitored by IT staf...

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Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning EFA : Electronic Frontiers Australia, among them “AI experts cautiously optimistic about Government’s AI Safety Institute announcement” (Nov 25, 2025) and “EFA disputes privacy claims from Australian age tech trial findings” (Aug 15, 2025).

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