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Safer Internet Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of the safe and positive use of digital technology, and to explore the role we can all play in creating a better and safer online community. Celebrated in 130 countries, this year’s theme is: ‘Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you.’
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On Thursday the 5th of October the Crime and Justice Research Centre, in collaboration with civil society groups the Australian Privacy Foundation, Digital Rights Watch Australia and FutureWise, and industry partner ThoughtWorks, hosted an event on ‘Attacks on Encryption.’ This in response to the Australian Government’s intention to pursue new and increased powers to access encrypted communications via s’backdoors.’
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As part of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, we’re pleased to present a live hack event: how secure is your personal information?
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This Human Rights Day, 10th December, get a taste of the power of metadata surveillance, and compete to see who can best abuse it.
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Freedom of expression, privacy, freedom of association and freedom from discrimination – these are all important digital rights which all started off life as fundamental human rights in the pre-Internet world.
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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.
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