Media Releases

90+ digital rights organisations ask Apple to drop image surveillance plans

Posted on August 26, 2021 | in Media releases

Digital Rights Watch joins a coalition of more than 90 U.S. and international organizations dedicated to civil rights, digital rights, and human rights, in an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, asking the company to abandon its recently announced plans to build surveillance capabilities into iPhones, iPads and other Apple products.

Onus on Government to Earn Public Trust On Tracing App

Posted on April 26, 2020 | in Media releases

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An alliance of digital rights groups urged the Morrison Government to fill in obvious gaps in the development of the tracing technology to give it its best chance of winning public trust.

Covid App Data Hosted Overseas is Vulnerable to US Law

Posted on April 24, 2020 | in Media releases

Choosing Amazon Web Services to host the covid-19 contact tracing app data risks exposing private information about Australians to US law enforcement, Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea.

Another empty assurance from government can't restore trust in Covid App

Posted on April 23, 2020 | in Media releases

Attorney-General Christian Porter’s statement that the police will not have access to metadata from the government’s Covid19 contact tracing app is wholly inadequate, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea said today.

Guarantee Limits and Protections on Covid App or it will Fail

Posted on April 15, 2020 | in Media releases

After years of attacking personal privacy, it is little wonder that the announcement from the Federal Government of a location tracking app has been met with scepticism, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea said today.

Government Must Come Clean On Phone Surveillance

Posted on April 5, 2020 | in Media releases

The federal government must come clean about the nature and extent of its data aggregation from mobile service providers, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea said today.