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  • SA pollies debate Net censorship bill

    The South Australian Parliament will debate and possibly vote on a controversial Internet Censorship bill in the session commencing July 8.

  • IIA prepares action plan as Alston talks regulation

    The Internet Industry Association (IIA) moved onto the back foot today following remarks by the Information Technology and Communications Minister, Richard Alston, that he was considering tightening providers' responsibility for Internet content.

  • The privacy debate: The darker side of customer intimacy

    You may be spending generously to get closer to your customers, but can you guarantee their privacy? To a legal certainty? If these questions make you nervous, join the stampede: December 21, the date new national privacy laws kick into effect, is a whole lot closer than you think.

  • Australia joins net censorship club

    Against a backdrop of protest from industry groups, the Democrats and the Labor Party, the Coalition Government has passed its controversial Online Services Bill through the Senate - a bill that will give the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) the power to order Internet Service Providers to take content off their servers. The passing of the bill will place Australia in the select international company of countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Singapore, who have all passed legislation to attempt to filter content on the Internet.

  • Is Free Speech 'Filtered' in Australia?

    The Code of Practice that forces ISPs to filter information available on the Web, is little more than "Government endorsed privatised censorship" according Electronic Frontiers Australia.

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