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The State of Digital Rights Report: A 2020 Retrospective
Posted on February 5, 2021
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We are proud to release the State of Digital Rights Report: A 2020 Retrospective, which examines the many ways Australians’ rights are being impacted by the activities of private companies and governments in the online world.
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Breaking: press freedom in Australia
Posted on September 18, 2019
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In June 2019, the Australian Federal Police raided the ABC and the home of a journalist from the Daily Telegraph. These alarming raids were undertaken because of journalists doing their jobs reporting on national security issues in the public interest, in part enabled by whistleblowers inside government agencies.
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The State of Digital Rights
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.
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New report reveals dangerous lack of oversight of secret global surveillance networks, opening the door to human rights abuses
An unprecedented international collaborative investigation carried out by 40 NGOs in 42 countries has identified alarming weaknesses in the oversight arrangements that are supposed to govern the sharing of intelligence between state intelligence agencies.
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The Role of Encryption in Australia
Encryption is a method for ensuring communications between two parties remain private from everyone else, including the carrier. Even if an encrypted communication is intercepted by a third party, it cannot be read by anyone except the people who are authorised to decrypt it. Encryption is a foundational tool for the proper functioning of the digital society and economy, and is used in a wide range of settings, including banking, public service delivery, and communications systems.
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