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This might be of interest to some folk.<br>
<h2>Electronic Frontiers Australia, in partnership with ThoughtWorks
Australia presents:</h2>
<h3> Creating the Web We Want</h3>
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<li>Time & Date: 11:30am, 17th June 2014</li>
<li>Venue: <a title="MCC map"
href="https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Melbourne+Convention+%26+Exhibition+Centre/@-37.825266,144.954588,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x958eeaf04deea384"
target="_blank">Melbourne Convention Centre, 1 Convention
Centre Place, Southbank (click for map)</a>.</li>
<li>Cost: FREE</li>
<li>Registration: Not Required</li>
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<h3> Speakers</h3>
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<li><a title="Keith Dodds"
href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/keith-dodds/0/410/a82"
target="_blank">Keith Dodds</a> - Director, Client Relations,
ThoughtWorks Asia Pacific (Moderator)</li>
<li><a title="Scott Ludlam"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ludlam"
target="_blank">Senator Scott Ludlum</a></li>
<li><a title="Jon Lawrence"
href="https://www.efa.org.au/about/board/jon-lawrence/"
target="_blank">Jon Lawrence</a> - Executive Officer,
Electronic Frontiers Australia</li>
<li><a title="Tom Sulston"
href="http://au.linkedin.com/pub/tom-sulston/0/411/178"
target="_blank">Tom Sulston</a> - Principal Technical
Consultant, ThoughtWorks</li>
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<p>Revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden have clearly
demonstrated that governments around the world have been engaging
in dragnet-style mass surveillance for years. We know that
intelligence agencies, including the US National Security Agency
(NSA), the UK’s GCHQ and Australia’s Signals Directorate have been
intercepting and storing the records of hundreds of millions of
our phone calls, text messages, emails, web searches, website
visits, instant messages, and social media activity. We know that
these agencies have been sharing our information with other
governments, large corporations, and non-security organisations.</p>
<p>Governments have justified this mass surveillance on the grounds
of “national security” against “terrorism”. Yet there is no
evidence that this disproportionate intrusion into our private
lives has stopped or foiled even one terrorist act, despite the
vast financial and social cost.</p>
<p>What these government activities have done is to build an
extremely effective surveillance infrastructure which police
states of the past, present, and future could only envy.</p>
<p>It is our duty to redress this illegal and immoral societal
imbalance. What legal, social, and regulatory policy reforms are
necessary to safeguard our right to privacy? What can we do both
now and in the future to protect our private communications from
dragnet government surveillance? What level of digital spying is
acceptable in an Internet where our privacy is valued?<br>
This free and public forum is part of the Agile Australia
conference. It will be a thought-provoking examination of privacy
issues vital to the future of digital freedom. It will include a
review of available technologies to resist dragnet surveillance,
and global initiatives to strengthen individuals’ right to
privacy, as enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human
Rights. It will be a call to join and shape local and worldwide
activities to oppose mass government surveillance.</p>
More information: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.efa.org.au/events/web-we-want-2014/">https://www.efa.org.au/events/web-we-want-2014/</a><br>
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