2023

• July 24th - APF’s Occasional Newsletter – July 2023

2022

• November 3rd - Card-Number Protections Depend on Data Deletion
• August 23rd - Newsletter 23 August 2022
• May 16th - APF releases 2022 Federal Election Scorecard
• May 15th - MEDIA RELEASE: “Our” ABC iView mandatory login requirement – unnecessary and linked to export to data aggregators?
• May 11th - APF continues to engage with the ABC over mandatory iView registration
• April 26th - Still waiting for a reply from the ABC to our March open letter concerning mandatory registration for use of ABC iView online services
• April 11th - MEDIA RELEASE: Federal Election Platform Principles 2022
• March 14th - Ita Buttrose’s response to our open letter on mandatory registration for use of ABC iView services, and our reply
• March 2nd - Open letter: Mandatory registration for use of ABC iView services
• February 8th - MEDIA RELEASE: Civil Society Submission to Surveillance Law Reform
• January 20th - Open letter: Australian Border Force warrant-less seizure of comms

2021

• December 16th - Open Letter: Frontier software data breach and Ambulance SA data breach
• November 15th - Kiss your privacy goodbye when you use an ambulance? The Australian Privacy Foundation says No.
• October 17th - Too late? The new normal, State government slurps up all patient information.
• August 25th - MEDIA RELEASE: Banks can do better – Consumer groups make more than 100 recommendations to improve bank behaviour
• June 3rd - MEDIA RELEASE: Aussies show the way for Brits to grab patient data
• May 21st - Commonwealth Health Department going for data grab under cover of COVID
• April 25th - MEDIA RELEASE: Every 3 minutes Australian health services collect 400 data points of up to 25m patients’ medical records
• April 6th - MEDIA RELEASE: The government stores all your medical records

2020

• June 30th - Advocacy Groups Oppose Google Takeover of Fitbit
• April 27th - How [NOT] to earn public trust for the Contact Tracing App?
• April 23rd - MEDIA RELEASE: How to earn public trust before the Contact Tracing App

2018

• November 9th - The opt-out period should be extended and My Health Record properly evaluated
• July 26th - Law enforcement access to My Health Record data
• July 24th - MEDIA RELEASE: The biggest privacy risks to your My Health Record – the Government.
• July 17th - APF joins a coalition of human rights groups and experts in calling on the Australian government to protect encryption
• July 11th - MEDIA RELEASE: For Sale – Your Privacy and Your Health Data
• June 25th - Media Release: Doctors, Lawyers, and Privacy Experts Denounce HealthEngine Sharing Patient Health Data With Non-GPs
• May 18th - MEDIA RELEASE: Government’s “My Health Record”: No Consent Required? Opt-Out withdrawal of consent deadline is 15 October 2018
• April 30th - MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Privacy Foundation “seriously alarmed” about recent revelations that would allow Australian Signals Directorate to spy on Australians with even less accountability
• April 6th - MEDIA RELEASE: Time To Stop The Privacy Trainwrecks
• March 30th - Statement to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement
• March 19th - MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Digital Rights Organisations Call For Politicians To Clarify Their Dealings With Cambridge Analytica
• March 15th - APF response to statement from QLD Police Minister
• March 14th - MEDIA RELEASE: NSW Tribunal finds that the Opal card breaches privacy
• February 1st - MEDIA RELEASE: We need to have a serious talk about snooping
• January 28th - MEDIA RELEASE: Who is photographing your kids?
• January 7th - MEDIA RELEASE: ‘Open Data’: Too much sharing, too little care? Who’s reading your health information now?

2017

• November 28th - MEDIA RELEASE: Why is the government planning to gather all Australian’s Medical Data? … and will not be running a mass media campaign to let you know how to opt-out.
• November 23rd - MEDIA RELEASE: Does privacy matter less if your data is breached by your State Government?
• October 6th - MEDIA RELEASE: Comprehensive national face database incompatible with a free society
• September 29th - MEDIA RELEASE: Big Brother Arrives By Public Transport
• September 14th - MEDIA RELEASE: Attacks on Encryption: Privacy, Civil Society and the Surveillance State
• September 10th - Kissing goodbye to your health privacy? Governments must work harder.
• July 27th - Privacy Climate Change
• July 2nd - Advocates from five nations demand their governments respect strong encryption
• May 14th - Should Business be Free to Ignore Consumer Consent and Privacy??
• May 8th - Privacy in Australasia Gets a Boost
• March 10th - There’s a Bully in Town … and it’s perfectly legal
• March 5th - Not Worth the Paper It’s Printed On? Time to Talk About Protecting Human Rights
• January 19th - Federal Court Decision Guts the Privacy Act
• January 18th - Decision in Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corporation to be handed down tomorrow morning
• January 18th - The Imminent Threat of Automated Government
• January 1st - Pre-2017 Media Releases