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Amnesty ranks technology companies on encryption and human rights

Encryption helps protect people’s human rights online. By rendering digital data unintelligible, encryption helps ensure that private information sent over the internet stays private. Technology companies play a crucial role in keeping digital information safe.

Digital rights in aid and development

This coming Thursday 27th October, we’ll be joining a panel discussion at the annual conference of the Australian Council for International Development in Melbourne.

Privacy advocates support data breach legislation

Digital Rights Watch welcomes the Government’s move to introduce a mandatory data breach notification scheme.

The Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 will create a new obligation for organisations that store private information to notify individuals when their security systems have been breached.

Digital Defenders guide to privacy

Watchlist: data brokers

Most people are aware that websites and online services collect data about them in order to serve them with targeted advertising. They may also know that physical stores use ‘rewards’ programs such as loyalty cards to link purchases and serve consumers with targeted discounts and sale offers.

Watchlist: Algorithms and big data

More and more people talk about big data and algorithms to do all sorts of things. What are these concepts and what do they tell us about the world we live in?