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  • WA Internet Association slams MediaForce letter

    The Western Australian Internet Association has criticised an organisation claiming to represent Warner Bros for sending letters to Australian ISPs asking them to terminate the accounts of users alleged to have breached copyright requirements.

  • Anti-terrorist law: Australia pushes e-mail interception

    New counter-terrorism measures pushed by a government -run out of control" will see Australian agencies legally able to intercept unread e-mails for the first time in routine investigations, according to a civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers of Australia (EFA).

  • 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 'shallow' on cybersquatting?

    Domain name disputes have turned into a spate of name-calling. Electronic Frontiers Australia has called the federal government "shallow" for asking the World Intellectual Property Organisation to solve cybersquatting problems. Ouch!

  • Internet Code of Practice attracts more criticism

    Controversy continues to surround the Internet industry Code of Practice with another industry body, the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU), speaking out against the draft code.

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