Australia
Australia is set to be the next open surveillance state
A China-style social credit is on the way to Australia, a new report suggests.
In Australia, political parties are exempt from privacy laws – and they’re making the most of it
Australians would be “disgusted” if they knew the data political parties were collecting.
Australian PM proposes oppressive new social media laws
It would be some of the strictest laws in the world for social media use.
Australian report reveals the problems with email tracking in political campaigns
Email tracking is on the rise.
Australia wants tech companies to censor content even faster, doesn’t care that it’s technically impossible
Australia threatens tech companies with jail time.
Australia joins New Zealand in eroding the digital civil liberties of its people in the wake of the recent terror attack
Australia internet providers have blocked Voat, ZeroHedge, Archive.is, LiveLeak and others, thus directly contravening civil liberties.
The dangerous Australian anti-encryption law is leaving people open to cyber attacks
When such backdoors are placed in what was supposed to be end-to-end encrypted system, the user data is no longer completely encrypted and is more likely to be targeted cyber attacks.
FastMail says its staff are worried about being legally compelled to install secret backdoors in its software
The company voiced its concerns in a statement to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.
FastMail Was a Pioneer of Bitcoin Payments For Email, Now It’s Just Ended Bitcoin Support
FastMail say it’s becoming too costly to support Bitcoin as a payment option.