Tag: Lucie Krahulcova

The new Online Safety Bill has been a ‘rush job’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Civil and digital rights groups say the sweeping new Online Safety Bill is a “rush job”, having been introduced to federal parliament just 10 days after government received nearly...

AFP’s ‘expansion of authoritarian powers’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Authorities will be given the ability to take over the online accounts of Australians and hack into networks to change or delete data for alleged crimes that carry jail...

Privacy office faces ‘remarkable’ drop in funding

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal opposition has questioned a “remarkable” drop in support for the national privacy office in the coming years, with the organisation left waiting on whether government funding will...

Privacy office is still ‘severely underfunded’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s regulator for privacy and freedom of information missed all but one of its performance goals in the last year, leading to concerns the agency is “severely underfunded” and...

Digital groups call for COVID app transparency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is yet to respond to a series of transparency and data security issues surrounding its official COVID-19 information app that have been raised by a number...

Labor amendments won’t solve encryption

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Labor’s proposed amendments to the highly contentious encryption legislation were a welcome step in the right direction, but “tinkering at the edges” won’t fix the underlying issues with the...