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Your freedom of speech
Your freedom to read
Your privacy and
freedom from surveillance
are under threat
While global computer networks like the Internet open up wonderful possibilities for individuals, reactionary forces are attempting to restrict our freedom to speak and read and to conduct our activities in privacy, free from surveillance. Although these people often have respectable-sounding reasons for wanting to control what other people can and cannot do, their reasons rarely survive scrutiny. If they achieve their aims, we shall all be the poorer - we shall have lost some of our most cherished and guarded fundamental freedoms: privacy and freedom of expression.
Since mid 1994, numerous Australian governmental proposals have been announced with the aim of taking away your freedoms. While few of these plans have been carried out as proposed, the threats continue.
Today's world isn't quite the Stalin-inspired, totalitarian nightmare imagined by Orwell but it seems that almost every day we are presented with some new threat to our cherished freedoms, some new intrusion into our personal privacy. While EFA acknowledges that the world has changed in recent years, the actions of over-zealous governments and commercial enterprise need greater vigilance now than ever before.
Electronic Frontiers Australia has been working since 1994 to promote and protect the civil liberties of users and operators of computer based communications systems such as the Internet.
EFA needs your support to continue its educational and advocacy projects and activities, to fight against the Net becoming a tool of repression and increased surveillance.
You can help by joining EFA or donating to EFA or in other ways:
- Membership subscriptions can be paid by credit card using our secure online membership application form, or by fax, snail mail or PGP encrypted email. You can also pay by cheque or Australia Post money order. For information about EFA membership and how to join, visit the Join EFA page.
- You can make a donation to EFA by credit card or Paypal Account using our secure online donation form, or by fax, snail mail or PGP encrypted email. You can also donate by cheque or Australia Post money order. For more information about how to donate, visit the Donate to EFA page.
- While membership subscriptions and donations are extremely important in providing funding for EFA's work and activities, we realise that not everyone who shares our objectives will be able to provide financial support. For information about other things you may be able to do to help, visit the More Ways to Help EFA page.
