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Day 2 – Facebook Privacy and Responsibility

Inside Story features social media doyen and writer, Jillian C York who offers sensible analysis of the ramifications of Facebook’s recent privacy changes. Is the age of privacy, as Mark Zuckerberg Facebook creator says, over? The procedure to protect one’s privacy has become far more obtuse since the recent changes.

Coincidentally, Facebook is coming . . . → Read More: Day 2 – Facebook Privacy and Responsibility

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AGIMO eGovernment consultation trial

From Sally Rose at Open Forum:

Hi I thought you’d be interested to know that the next instalment in the AGIMO eGovernment consultation trial has arrived. It is an online discussion forum for the National Human Rights Consultation Commitee (an independent body supported by a Secretariat from the federal Attorney General’s Department) and it’s being hosted by . . . → Read More: AGIMO eGovernment consultation trial

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Get Thee to a Library & Learn!

An eclectic overview of the current state of play on prospective Australian net censorship is presented by Warwick Rendell – suggesting the leaking of the possible / partial ACMA list plays into pro-filter hands, and that filter opponents need to focus on the development of workable alternatives.

Activities which violate human rights – child pron, rape, war, . . . → Read More: Get Thee to a Library & Learn!

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ABC Lateline : Stilgherrian On ACMA Blacklist Leak

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Possible Australian ACMA banned sites list published

Wikileaks, the international purveyor of information governments would rather keep privy from their citizens, has published what is claimed to be the Australian ACMA blacklist in their section on Australia.

The leak was revealed by @ashermoses in an exclusive in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Wikileaks has previously published the blacklists for Thailand, Denmark and Norway.

University of Sydney associate . . . → Read More: Possible Australian ACMA banned sites list published

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Next Stop, Digireality

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Jim Boot on the Australian Government’s censorship of Wikileaks page

$11,000 per day for linking to sites you don’t even know are on the ACMA blacklist? Kafkesque in the extreme.

Time our ridiculous government was taken down for acts unbecoming to civilisation.

Sphere: . . . → Read More: Jim Boot on the Australian Government’s censorship of Wikileaks page

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Conroy screwed as Xenophon sees the light

In the SMH, Asher Moses reports that Opposition Senator Minchin has obtained legal advice that the conservative Labor government will almost certainly have to pass legislation to enable net censorship filters to be installed at ISP level.

With Senator Xenophon changing sides on the issue, net censorship legislation would be comfortably blocked in the Senate.

Senator Nick . . . → Read More: Conroy screwed as Xenophon sees the light

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