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