The CEO of the Australian Crime Commission would potentially become a J. Edgar Hoover figure, with almost limitless power to pry and to dispense information as he saw fit, under proposed legislation before parliament. CLA has warned of the dangers of…
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is raising people’s hackles with its intrusive, intimate and compulsory health survey, currently in the field. CLA and the Australian Privacy Foundation are asking the Australian Statistician whether the ABS has compl…
Australia’s Attorney-General admitted last month that the nation operated to no clear set of counter-terrorism priorities over the past 10 years: in other words, tens of billions of dollars have apparently been wasted in scattergun spending on thousands…
Australia’s own National Liberty Tree, an initiative of CLA, will be planted this month. But as a new tree brings hope, there’s despair as the government trundles down the path of a national e-health system putting safety and privacy at risk; health aut…
Health privacy and security issues lead this issue, with the government careless about your interests in patient health records, and ASIO asking the government for even more money, beyond the excessive amounts they already receive. The extra spook cash…
Cyber issues – crime, computers, the internet and security – are the government’s main preoccupation now, but at least they are consulting, so you can have your say until the middle of November 2011. Elsewhere, the Law Reform people are setting…