People’s privacy is under assault in Australia, nowhere more so than in the Rudd Government’s plan to impose censorship on the internet, says Marie Gordon. And Minister for Communications Conroy is proposing to spend billions to create a speedy national…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy claims the scathing internet association report was merely a literature review: yes, it was…and about 95% of the literature reviewed condemned Conroy’s Folly, the plan for mandatory internet filtering in Australi…
Experts have formally reported to the Rudd Government that their proposed web censorship plans are ‘fatally flawed’, and that their web filter would fail., As well, ISPs are increasingly going public to point out major problems. When will Communications…
The Attorney General and the Communications Minister have announed new ‘e-security’ initiatives, after a major review in 2008. Increasingly the government is signalling that ‘international partnerships’ will decide Australia’s online standards, in a way…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is responding to CensorFree email protests with four pages explaining his viewpoint. It includes the revelation that he is motivated by an international agenda he signed up to in Seoul, Korea, in mid-2008. Read th…
President-elect Barack Obama want internet providers in the USA to support ‘network neutrality’ – the the principle that Internet service providers should not be able to discriminate against any of the information that they carry. Net neutrality laws are…