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Attempts to break encryption will have lasting effects for online freedom of speech

Posted on June 6, 2018 | in Media releases

Digital Rights Watch has warned of wider impacts on freedom of speech and the right of Australian citizens to hold private conversations, after the Government announced plans to introduce legislation that would give law enforcement the power to break encryption protocols.

Centrelink duty of care has failed, regardless of Information Commissioner finding

Posted on May 30, 2018 | in Media releases

Privacy rights groups Digital Rights Watch, the Australian Privacy Foundation and Electronic Frontiers Australia have slammed a statement by the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Privacy Commissioner that their investigation found no wrongdoing in the release of personal information by a government department.

The State of Digital Rights

Posted on May 13, 2018 | in News , Reports

Today, we’re proud to release the State of Digital Rights report, which outlines the many ways Australians’ rights are being impacted by the activities of private companies and governments in the online world.

New digital rights report foreshadows an eroding human rights landscape online

Posted on May 13, 2018 | in Media releases

Australians’ human rights are being severely breached through the exploitation of online data according to a landmark report released today by Digital Rights Watch.

Live Hack: Melbourne

Posted on May 3, 2018 | in Events , News

How well does your city know you? You’ll be surprised by how much of your life can be pieced together from your metadata footprint – the traces you leave when you use everyday technology.

Tech has no moral code. It is everyone's job now to fight for one

Posted on April 24, 2018 | in Articles

It has been a tough two years for the technology industry. The 2016 US election was a turning point for what was formerly the face of upbeat, self-actualising capitalism. Today the common view is that a tiny minority has been making money by disrupting things at the expense of the majority. Technology companies are out of control because law-makers have been neglectful, indifferent or – worse – baffled by the prospect of regulation. But in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data-harvesting scandal, there is new interest in the role of ethical considerations in the work of technology companies, and the programmers who build their machinery.