Category: Civil Liberties
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Australia Data Retention Scheme Stalled
It’s been reported in the mainstream media that the Australian Data Retention Scheme has been referred to another committee, effectively delaying it to after the next election. The Scheme was part of a broad review of the various security agencies powers and how to streamline them. The initial paper originally stated that retention would be…
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Australian Internet Censorship and Data Retention
Just going on how they treat matters regarding the internet, it seems that the current Australian government is trying to beat the previous government’s poor record. Where the previous government seemed to think the internet a scary and unimportant thing that they didn’t really understand and therefore ignored it, the current government seems to be…
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The Great Australian Internet Firewall
Some what belatedly (hey I’m travelling!) I’ve changed the layout of my main website http://www.enc.com.au/ so it now has black panels and a little pop-up. It’s all in the name of T he Great Australian Internet Blackout which is a protest about the upcoming Australian Governments Internet Filtering. As per usual with this sort of…