Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
24 July 2014

Australia Spied On Japanese Companies To Help Its Industries Negotiate Trade Deals

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As more information comes to light about the global snooping being conducted by the NSA and GCHQ, it is becoming clearer that much of it...

Australian Government Announces Rare Public Consultation On TPP -- Then Bans All Journalists From Attending

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As Techdirt has noted many times, the TPP negotiations -- like ACTA before them and now TAFTA/TTIP -- are distinguished by an almost co...
23 November 2013

Likely Winner Of Australia's Imminent General Election Sneaks In Last-Minute Plan To Impose UK-Style Opt-Out Censorship -- Then Denies It

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Australia goes to the polls this weekend, and the likely winner quietly added Net censorship to its platform , as spotted by ZDNet:  On...
27 October 2013

Australian Copyright Industry Says Proposal To Bring In Fair Use Is 'Solution For Problem That Doesn't Exist'

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A couple of months back, Techdirt wrote about Australia's proposals to shift from the current fair dealing approach to fair use as p...
19 September 2013

Australia Drops Snooping Plans -- For Now

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Last year, we reported on Australia's plans to bring in comprehensive snooping on its citizens, and more recently how its spies had r...

Australia Sets New Overblocking Record: Aims For One Site, Takes Down 250,000

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Overblocking is not a new problem -- over two years ago, Techdirt wrote about an instance where Homeland Security took down 84,000 innocen...

Australian Spies Want To Hack Tor After Realizing It Routes Around Their Surveillance

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One of the key flaws with the data retention schemes being proposed by the UK and elsewhere, supposedly to catch terrorists and serious ...
20 July 2013

Australian Census Data Released Under CC License, But Official Site Tries To Make It Hard To Download

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The whole point about adopting Creative Commons licenses is to make it easier for people to share and use works released under them. S...
31 March 2013

Australian Recording Industry Continues To Fight The Technology That Is Saving It

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There have been many posts on Techdirt about the copyright industry's hatred for new technologies that eventually turned out to be i...
10 March 2013

Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To Strategically Block Innovation

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Techdirt has been writing for a while about China's policy of providing incentives to file patents -- regardless of whether those pat...
10 February 2013

Australia's Spies Want To Put Members Of The Public At Risk By Using Them To Pass On Malware to Suspected Terrorists

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Last year we wrote about the German police using malware to spy on members of the public. Now ASIO, Australia's national secret serv...
11 November 2012

Australian Government Announces That It Is Dropping Mandatory ISP Filtering...But Still Wants Filtering

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Techdirt has been writing about Australia's plans to join the online censorship club for almost three years. Now, in a surprise mov...
13 October 2012

CryptoParty Like It's 1993

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As Techdirt stories regularly report, governments around the world, including those in the West, are greatly increasing their surveillanc...
13 September 2012

Industries Dependent On Copyright Exceptions Contribute $182 Billion To Australian Economy

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Despite the absence of credible studies supporting the idea, part of the copyright maximalist dogma is that the wider the reach of copyrig...
10 August 2012

Outdated Compulsory Licensing Means Australian Schools Must Pay Millions To Use Free Internet Materials

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Recently we wrote about how copyright rules designed for an analog age were causing problems when transposed without modification to the ...
23 July 2012

Australia Wants To Join The Snooper's Club: Why That's Bad For All Of Us

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They say that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on, and the same seems to be true about Internet policy...
06 April 2012

A Copyright First: Bogus Copyright Takedown Leads To Australian Court Awarding $150k Damages

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We're so inured to hearing about unjustified claims of copyright infringement going unpunished that's it's good to come across ...
23 March 2012

Australian Gov't: Not In The Public Interest For The Public To Be Interested In Secret Anti-Piracy Negotiations

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Last month Techdirt wrote about yet more secret meetings between the copyright and internet industries, this time in Australia, where th...
15 March 2012

TPP Talks Deadlocked; Still No Transparency

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As Techdirt revealed a couple of days ago, one reason why the European Commission decided to refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice...
22 February 2012

Australian Government Holds Secret Anti-Piracy Meetings; The Public Is Not Invited

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As Techdirt noted recently, policy-making behind closed doors is no longer acceptable. Until the end of the 20th century, it was hard f...