APF has an archive of media articles relevant to privacy issues.
Contributions need to be sent to apf-media-archive@lists.privacy.org.au.
The old site, as at mid-February 2025, is accessible, and searchable here.
The new site it is migrating to, which is browsable in date-order only, is currently here.
The new archive will be text-searchable by means of this service at mail-archive.com:
The volunteers at mail-archive.com recommend this reference document for the search facility (but note that it’s written for a different list-archive, called The North American Sundial Society!).
A brief primer is as follows:
- Use a single word, “or a phrase”, i.e. a group of words surrounded by double quotes.
Upper and lower case are irrelevant, i.e. are treated as being identical - If separate terms (i.e. words or “phrases”) are entered, it will return only messages that contain all of the terms (i.e. the default-operator is boolean AND)
- If terms are separated by OR, it will return messages that contain any of the terms
- To get a list of messages that exclude a term, put a hyphen/minus-sign immediately in front of that term
- Some key additional possibilities are:
- from:INSERT-SENDER’S-NAME
- date:YYYYMMDD
- date:[YYYYMMDD TO YYYYMMDD]
- subject:INSERT-STRING-TO-FIND-IN-SUBJECT
- message:INSERT-STRING-TO-FIND-IN-MESSAGE
- wild-carding is available, e.g.
surveil* finds terms with zero or more characters in place of the “*”.
The asterisk works if it’s embedded, or at the end, but not at the beginning of a word