PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. It’s an encryption program that’s mainly used for email encryption, but it can be used for encrypting any sort of data.
Digital Rights Watch and Electronic Frontiers Australia urge the Australian Government to reinstate phone and internet access to asylum seekers
Digital Rights Watch and Electronic Frontiers Australia urge the Australian Government to ensure that the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees being held in offshore detention camps on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) and Nauru are respected.
An open letter to Attorney General George Brandis
An open letter in relation to the treatment of peaceful activists protesting United States military operations facilitated by surveillance conducted at Australia’s Pine Gap facility.
Digital Security for Everyone
This guide is designed for beginners and non-technical people with the aim of increasing security across our whole community. The content is based on research, working with security experts and …
Australia to face human rights scrutiny in week of UN Human Rights Council vote
During the same week that Australia is expected to be granted a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, an expert UN Committee will grill the Australian Government over its own human rights record.
Attacks on encryption
A report on our recent event held at QUT on the state of encryption in Australia.
Comprehensive national face database incompatible with a free society
Australia’s leading privacy and civil liberties organisations condemn the decision by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to provide all images from state and territory driver’s licence databases to the federal National Facial Biometric Matching Capability.
Attorney General George Brandis declared “Villain” by Access Now for comments undermining encryption
Australian Attorney General George Brandis has been awarded a ‘villain’ award in a global digital rights ceremony
Concerns over proposed plan for national facial recognition database
Digital Rights Watch has expressed deep concerns over proposed plans that would require drivers license photographs to be included in a national facial recognition database.
Report: Australia’s Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
This report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee examines Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Cross-border access to data: Council of Europe submission
A global coalition of civil society organisations have submitted to the Council of Europe its comments on how protect human rights when developing new rules on cross-border access to electronic evidence.
Intelligence sharing a threat to democracy: privacy and human rights organisations launch international campaign
An international coalition of 30+ organisations led by Privacy International (PI) has written to national intelligence oversight bodies in over 40 countries, including Australia, seeking information on the intelligence sharing activities of their governments.
Metadata analysis of Gillian Triggs reveals personal information open to unwarranted government surveillance
An assessment of the metadata of former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs over the course of just one day provided enough information to reveal her home city, age details, and confidential details of upcoming speeches, board meetings and conversations.
Big brother attitude to public servant’s social media is gross overstep of power
Online advocacy group Digital Rights Watch has expressed serious concerns over social media guidelines for federal public servants released today.
Live Hack: Understanding Metadata
Digital Rights Watch presents a live hack event at the Melbourne Writers Festival: how secure is your personal information? With special guest speakers Scott Ludlam and Gillian Triggs.
Forcing social media organisations to decrypt will have far-reaching consequences on user’s right to privacy
Digital Rights Watch has expressed concerns at the Government’s announcement of new legislation designed to compel social media companies to hand over access to user’s encrypted content.
Internet-wide day of action for net neutrality
On July 12th, the Internet will come together to defend net neutrality. Join us.
Global coalition from five nations demands “Five Eyes” respect encryption
Today, 83 organizations and individuals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States sent a letter to their respective governments insisting that government officials defend strong …