The latest intelligence documents published by The Guardian tell us that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is harvesting up to 200 million text messages a day under the DISHFIRE programme, and that…
Many users of digital platforms resign themselves to being monitored. That’s surveillance apathy - and it’s worse in society’s most marginalised groups.
When political activists are treated like terrorists who plot and kill, state power is misdirected.
After five months of the Abbott government, no finality has been reached with Papua New Guinea about what sort of life Manus Island detainees found to be refugees will get. The government’s response to…
More and more examples of indiscriminate surveillance are coming to light. What can we do about it?
Pope Francis has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for “pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets”. He beat nine others including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Bashar…
The European nation allowed the NSA to collect data on its EU partners from undersea cables.
Anthony Albanese’s request for the Americans to drop their bid to extradite Assange has fallen on firmly blocked ears.
Australia has moved up in the world – to seventh place on the 2013/14 Soft Power Survey published in the December/January issue of Monocle magazine. The Soft Power Survey is conducted yearly by Monocle…
It’s hard to see how the Trump administration will fix the damage caused by this intelligence blunder.
