Is anyone still involved with @EFA and can explain to me what their priorities are? They just posted this corporate guff in the middle of an election, where people around the world and in Australia are terrified about the erosion of fundamental human and digital rights. And I am really mad about it.
Hi @ok_lyndsey, Andrew Roffey from EFA here.
Regarding corpos, we don't have a particular focus on assisting them. With regards to the recent incident on super funds, we are looking at mandatory 2FA for financial institutions and other practices that would keep Australians safer. Further Privacy Act reform and more powers for the commissioner would be welcome. We take the view that companies need a strong regulator and not just self-regulation if this is any consolation.
We are also particularly concerned about growing authoritarian sentiment and human rights more broadly, with a focus on Australia.
Hopefully you would have received an email recently with our Election Scorecard with some more recent policies that we ranked political parties against.
Would you like to see more posts and emails from EFA? Are there specific areas you would suggest? I'll pass your comments onto the rest of the board.
@EFA I am not sure who the audience was for that "scorecard".
With respect, because I don't know you. I am concerned about how EFA is operating. We've seen the history of this organisation to close down and turn into a private tree house club with no transparency and accountability to members, and achieve very little. That seems to be how it is running again.
Put meeting minutes up on the website so at least members know what the organisation is doing. Running the board as a private interest group is not ok. If the board can't push out work, find new board members.
@EFA making a choice to publish PR marketing for corporates during an election is a political choice. It's what the e-safety commissioner does, it's what OAIC does. It's a tactic to do nothing. It signals that there are no concerns.
I am asking is that the position of the board? Who wrote the "scorecard"? The quality is low, I doubt many people read the long ramblings surrounding it? Was there a team working on it?
I, as a member am seeking to understand if the board is operational, what strategic decisions they are making, and how they are working.
Is EFA currently fulfilling its remit of being the oldest standing organisation in Australia to protect the digital rights of its citizens? If it is not doing that then members need to be made aware there is a problem.
We have seen that the history of this organisation and space is that nothing is better than an organisation that can't get work done and distracts attention and resources from those who are. Go and have a chat to anyone from DRW if you want more insight into that.
@EFA I am also the public officer and that means I have compliance duties. EFA has not posted their meeting minutes since October 2024. Please make them available to myself and members. We don't want to have another occurrence like last year where minutes for the year were posted days before the AGM. Members realising very little got done all year leaves it far too late for anyone to provide help. It's not fair in the board, it's not fair on members.
Transparency in the Internet community is a foundational part of how good work gets done.
ok_lyndsey
Electronic Frontiers Australia