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May 2021 Roundup

Greetings from… inside our homes. With the majority of our team back in lockdown in Victoria, we have been keeping an eye on coronavirus updates. If you registered to attend the Coded Bias movie screening, you should have received a refund. If you wanted to come but missed a spot—good news! We will be rescheduling the event once life returns to something that resembles ‘normal’.

Policy grounded in surveillance won't protect women

All this talk of protecting women online reminds me of a quote from renowned feminist and author Mona Eltahawy: “I don’t want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting men who are violent towards women.” I doubt she would approve of the measures in the new Online Safety Bill.

Our top picks for RightsCon 2021

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not the holidays, it’s RightsCon season!

RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, hosted by our friends at Access Now. It will take place 7-11 June and it will, once again, be entirely virtual.

Submission to the UN: the right to privacy in the digital age

As the digital ecosystem grows all around us, consuming cities, workplaces, and our places of leisure and even governance, the protection of privacy has been an active frontier between human rights advocates and the reckless adoption of systems and technologies.

April 2021 Roundup

As the year crawls forward, we’re busy working across a number of different fronts to advance digital rights in Australia. This month we’re looking back at government inquiries, new legislation, and announcing the Melbourne Surveillance Track!

Anonymity online is important

Imagine if we walked around the real world with a small screen floating above our heads. That screen would update with a different set of information depending on who looked at you. It would always be above you displaying at least your name, the date of your birth, and the neighborhood where you live. Imagine being in a crowd at a protest, or a concert. Anyone’s, everyone’s details would be there. And of course, if the police looked that screen would fill with all sorts of additional information about you and the people you associate with.