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Civil liberties organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has dismissed a proposal to restrict access to Internet accounts to those that can satisfy a 100 point identity check as "ludicrous".
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An online civil liberties organisation has raised serious concerns about the implementation of an e-mail monitoring policy for NSW education institutions, while a teachers' body has issued a guarded response.
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