Increasing use of old and new forms of surveillance is a clear trend in the early years of the 21st century. Prof Roger Clarke explores the main surveillance techniques and devices in this article.
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Prof. Clarke is chair of the Au…
Australia’s consumer, financial, data protection and privacy legislation is a mish-mash of unconnected laws and rules, through which unprincipled people and companies exploit people for profit. We need a 7-8 year project to produce interactive laws that…
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is reviewing the Electronic Funds Transfer Code of Conduct. Business wants to significantly reduce consumer protections in the Code. A submission co-authored by CLA member Professor Roger Clarke and Al…
Government bureaucrats are boosting ‘smart’ card technology while being economical with the truth, CLA says in wide-ranging ID card media release. The national ID card debate is too important: they must correct wrong impressions left with the Parliamenta…
Personal data and financial transaction details of Australians should be kept safe in Australia, and neither exported not subjected to laws of other countries, CLA has told the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Privacy inquiry. Using the online transact…
Each individual must own their personal data on the national ‘Access Card’, CLA says in it January 2007 submissionto the Office of the Access Card, or the system is biased towards Government rather than the Australians. Read how CLA suggests fixing the d…
Read this rundown by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland on what concerns civil libertarians.
If you can’t get through to the SMH site, you can read it here.
The Centrelink 2005-2006 annual report, and a media release from the agency’s chief executive officer, Mr Jeff Whalan, show deplorable standards of personal information security in the agency behind the government’s push for a new national ID card. Read…
CLA has lodged its first submission to the Consumer and Privacy Taskforce on the ID card. Lodgement followed a meeting with Task Force Member John TD Wood and official Ben Battison earlier in July. The meeting clarified viewpoints on both sides, and will…
CLA welcomes the proposed smartcard, provided it’s used to help Australians with their health and not to spy on people.
Cartoon: Courtesy of Geoff Pryor, Canberra Times.
Read CLA’s media release.
