Part CryptoParty, part symposium, Only Truth is a series of talks and practicalguides that will equip the average internet user with information and open sourcetools to protect their communication, privacy, and security.
Speakers will talk about Australian metadata capture, the ethics of digital privacy,and how our algorithm-effected online life is changing our offline selves. Thepractical guides will focus on Australian metadata, and simple tools for mobiledevices and personal computers to encrypt or protect your information. Only Truth will also provide a platform for audience members to ask questions and discussissues raised in Algorithmic Misfits.
Only truth: a symposium on Internet privacy
Event: Beyond Privacy
‘Lawfulness’ is routinely referred to by state agencies as the benchmark for appropriate surveillance. But how might the law, intended as a safeguard, actually be used to undermine a democratic system of checks and balances?
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Digital Rights Watch at RightsCon
Posted on April 2, 2016
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Digital Rights Watch board member Lizzie O’Shea has been talking all things privacy, security, surveillance and copyright at the US RightsCon event in Silicon Valley.
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If you're worried about privacy, you should worry about the 2016 census
Posted on March 15, 2016
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First published on ABC The Drum
If you blinked, you missed it. On December 18 last year, the Australia Bureau of Statistics announced that at the 2016 census in August it would, for the first time, retain all the names and addresses it has collected “to enable a richer and dynamic statistical picture of Australia“.
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New group launches to protect online rights
Posted on March 11, 2016
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A new advocacy organization has launched to fight to protect the human rights of Australian internet users.
With the backing of human and consumer rights organizations including CHOICE, Thoughtworks and the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and prominent Australians including human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, broadcaster Mary Kostakidis, and iiNet founder Michael Malone, Digital Rights Watch aims to combat the erosion of human rights in the online environment.
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Big Data, Big Opportunities
Posted on March 9, 2016
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We are living in a data saturated world, which presents a range of challenges and exciting possibilities for human rights lawyers and activists. The age of computers, the internet, and smart phones has created an unprecedented number of information sensing devices, generating lots of data about their users. Examples of such data include shopping habits, individual location and movements, political opinions, internet searches, friend networks, social media use, and even health information.
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