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23.01.2022 APF Board Members Liam Pomfret, Monique Mann and Justin Clacherty judging the Internet Freedom Hack at ThoughtWorks this weekend.

18.01.2022 Close up: the government’s facial recognition plan could reveal more than just your identity Jake Goldenfein, Swinburne University of Technology A Bill to set up the federal government’s biometric identity system is currently going through Parliament. But there are concerns over just how much information the system would be allowed to gather, and how that might be used to establish more than just the identity https://privacy.org.au//close-up-the-governments-facial-r/

17.01.2022 MEDIA RELEASE: NSW Tribunal finds that the Opal card breaches privacy The Australian Privacy Foundation has long argued that the requirement for registration for concession Opal users is a breach of the privacy laws. All users of the public transport system in NSW should have the right to travel anonymously and not be tracked. A case was brought against Transport for NSW by Nigel... https://privacy.org.au//media-release-nsw-tribunal-finds-/ See more

15.01.2022 Free public lecture on the importance of a Human Rights Act (including privacy!) in QLD (and beyond). Spaces limited, registration essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/human-rights-in-queensland-

15.01.2022 APF Response to statement from QLD Police Minister In response to QLD Police Minister’s media release made to the ABC on 15/03/18 and yet to be made available on line, the APF would like to respond: The APF are disappointed that the QLD Police Minister chose not to respond to Dr Mann’s comments in person and take up the https://privacy.org.au//apf-response-to-statement-from-ql/

14.01.2022 Many people have asked who should come to the Internet Freedom Hack: Defending Truth, and we've just published our answer: https://hackforprivacy.org//internet-freedom-hack-defendi/. In short, _anyone_ with an interest in privacy, digital rights, or freedom. #DefendingTruthHack

14.01.2022 APF Board Member and Co-Chair Surveillance Committee Dr Monique Mann offers her initial thoughts on the not-a-backdoor bill: https://theconversation.com/the-devil-is-in-the-detail-of-g

11.01.2022 More trouble for Centrelink in the wake of the 'robo-debt' debacle.

09.01.2022 Interesting exhibition on the history of surveillance and privacy issues

02.01.2022 MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Digital Rights Organisations Call For Politicians To Clarify Their Dealings With Cambridge Analytica JOINT MEDIA RELEASE BY ELECTRONIC FRONTIERS AUSTRALIA, FUTURE WISE, AUSTRALIAN PRIVACY FOUNDATIONIn light of the revelations that Cambridge Analytica has reportedly misused the data of over 50 million people on Facebook, Australia’s leading digital and civil rights advocates call on all Australian governments and political parties to categorically answer the https://privacy.org.au//media-release-australian-digital-/

01.01.2022 MEDIA RELEASE: We need to have a serious talk about snooping Protection from public sector snoops is okay for people in Britain but not for Australians? That’s the question being asked by the Australian Privacy Foundation the nation’s independent privacy advocate. For more than 30 years the Foundation has been fighting for a respectful privacy regime. Just because something is https://privacy.org.au//media-release-we-need-to-have-a-s/