By Alex Schlotzer, EFA Board Member Less than two weeks after its Australian release, CitizenFour today received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film had previously won the British equivalent (BAFTA) as well as a long list of…
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CitizenFour: Why it’s already the movie of the year
Posted in Data Retention, Encryption, International, PRISM, Privacy, Surveillance Tagged with: Data Retention, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, mass surveillance, nsa, prism
The 90s and Now: FBI and its Inability to Cope with Encryption
This post, by Amul Kalia, was originally published on EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 29th October 2014. Australian authorities are using many of the same arguments, including to justify the mandatory data retention legislation introduced into parliament last week. Recently, FBI…
Posted in Data Retention, Encryption, Privacy, Surveillance Tagged with: encryption, FBI, law enforcement, National Security, privacy, Surveillance
How far from 1984?
The ABC has done a brilliant radio program about surveillance and how, in so many ways, we are close to a George Orwell-esque situation Check it out here
Posted in Privacy, Surveillance Tagged with: ABC, Edward Snowdon, government, mass surveillance, privacy, Surveillance
New intelligence powers: what’s included
Last week, Attorney-General George Brandis introduced an omnibus bill to the Senate that seeks to update the legislation governing the operations of Australia’s intelligence services. Three weeks ago, we reviewed the proposals that were expected to be included in this tranche of legislation. The…
Posted in Privacy, Surveillance Tagged with: Attorney-General's Department, civil-liberties, government, intelligence, mass surveillance, National Security, privacy, Surveillance
