South Australian Council for Civil Liberties

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23/08/2022

30/05/2022

Incredible and confronting documentary on Netflix raising many issues about the rights of people born via artificial insemination, and problems with reproductive medicine law (in the USA). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQxK5u8IEs

A top fertility doctor had a sickening secret: he was using his own s***m. Decades later, his “children” band together to pursue justice.Our Father is only o...

07/05/2022

The former High Court judge and royal commissioner says too many young lawyers are lost to the profession because of concerns of sexual harassment.

24/11/2021

The ABC can reveal VicForests hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance on conservationists and, more recently, conducted what some have called "digital surveillance" on people the agency argues are trying to "discredit" it.

04/11/2021

"....Pseudolaw also uses similar methods to pseudoscience. McRoberts credits believers with being “typically intelligent and motivated, and capable of constructing complex edifices that sound superficially credible”. But this artifice and the ability to overwhelm those without legal training can easily mislead people into believing the actual arguments have legal merit...."

Pseudolaw arguments against vaccine, mask and test rules mix real and fantasy legal ideas.

30/10/2021

The Morrison Government and One Nation have done a deal to introduce Trump-style laws to radically overhaul our voting rights.

13/10/2021

"...The state government requested the auditor-general conduct a review into the management of COVID-Safe QR check-in data after the system was brought in last December..."

auditing essential
data should not be kept
businesses should be bound by privacy rules over the handwritten records

The South Australian Premier's department is deleting QR check-in data after 28 days, but SA Health is holding onto the information it receives for contact tracing indefinitely, according to a report by the state's auditor-general.

13/10/2021

"....The West Australian Premier, Mark McGowan, took to Facebook to declare today's ruling in the High Court a "monumental victory".

"Time and time again, Clive Palmer has attempted to bring our state down — first, by challenging the hard border that kept Western Australians safe through a pandemic, and then by launching an outrageous legal claim for damages," the post said.

"Today’s win is proof that our government will never stop fighting for the people of Western Australia."

Mr McGowan said that, had Mr Palmer's claims for damages been upheld in the High Court, it would have "left our state bankrupt"...."

Clive Palmer has lost his High Court battle with Western Australia in a challenge to a law that prevents him suing the state for up to $30 billion over decisions made about his Balmoral South iron ore project in the Pilbara.

13/10/2021

This is why we advocated auditing the data collection independently

"....With South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria conducting trials of home quarantine apps using facial recognition, and Western Australia already doing it, new research by the Centre for Responsible Technology shows strict limits and controls are needed to protect the public.

It follows reports that in several states police have accessed Covid check-in data to undertake routine law enforcement activities. The privacy breaches from check-in apps already show that state governments must regain the public’s trust before trialling even more complex surveillance technologies, like facial recognition.

Director of the Centre for Responsible Technology Peter Lewis said the report highlighted several issues with using facial recognition technology, including systemic biases against women and minorities; a lack of transparency; and making surveillance an acceptable activity.

He said that governments at a minimum should constrain facial recognition to a single use with strict limits, including data expiry and proper consent; update state privacy legislations to cover facial recognition as protected information, in line with the Federal Privacy Act; develop strong human rights protections in law, to guard against abuses and establish an Artificial Intelligence ethics advisory board, to properly scrutinise the effects of facial recognition technology on an ongoing basis...."

State governments trialling home quarantine need to take active steps to ensure they are not crossing a new frontier in the surveillance of citizens by using facial recognition technology, privacy experts have warned.

06/04/2021

The federal government is claiming the 339 recommendations of the royal commission have been largely implemented, but recent Aboriginal deaths highlight those recommendations that were not implemented.