Plans for the British military spy agency and listening post GCHQ to monitor any email, phone call or website visit of people in the UK are being opposed by internet firms. The opposition comes as similar proposals are being floated in the backrooms of p…
As PM Kevin Rudd announced the first regional towns to get broadband would be in marginal seats in Tasmania, the Opposition was still being asked to pay almost $24,000 to find out – under freedom of information provisions – why and how the Government dec…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has launched a new website www.cybersmart.gov.au belonging to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. He says it is to keep Australian children safer online and provide teachers with cyber-safety resourc…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has been named – along with the Australian Government – as World Internet Villain of the Year for 2009. His mandatory internet filtering plans won the title at the 11th annual Internet Industry Awards in the UK.…
A joint media release, signed by numerous liberties/freedoms bodies, has launched an escalation of the campaign to stop Communications Minister Stephen Conroy imposing censorship on adult Australians. Keep an eye out for TV ads on the same subject. …
Australia’s Communication Minister Stephen Conroy is one of the nominees for the British ISP industry’s worldwide ‘internet villain of the year’ award. The nomination came before he said he would use Australia’s internet censorship regime to block websit…