(((Wow – a legal victory in repealing cybernetic state surveillance! You might want to read these remarks four or five times over, as stuff like this is so rare these days.)))
From: [email protected]
Subject: Privacy Gurus: Declaration of Success re the Access Card
Date: December 18, 2007 2:25:27 AM GMT+01:00
To: Recipient List Suppressed (((ouch)))
"The Australian Privacy Foundation and many friends have declared victory in relation to the Access Card.
"This was proposed to be a multi-purpose smart ID card, but actually a facilitator of a national ID scheme, a la the Australia Card of 1985-87.
"The outgoing Coalition government had suffered rejection by its own members of a Senate Committee, and had all-but give up on the idea; and the incoming Labor government elected on 24 Nov 2007 scrapped it.
The campaign page has been closed, incl. a tribute to Anna Johnston:"
http://www.privacy.org.au/Campaigns/ID_cards/HSAC.html
"The media page has been closed, incl. a tribute to Karen Dearne:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Campaigns/ID_cards/HSAC-Media-07.html
The ID Card Campaigns page has been updated:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Campaigns/ID_cards/index.html
The home-page has been adapted:
http://www.privacy.org.au/
Pardon the gloating; but we ought to occasionally celebrate privacy wins.
(((Yeah, time to pop the cork on the... hey wait a minute, what's this electronic tracking doohick on the side of this bottle of champagne?)))
–
Roger Clarke
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/
