Digital Rights Watch warns of ‘systematic and wilful degradation of our human rights online’ • Sign up to receive the top stories every morningGillian Triggs, Australia’s controversial former human rights commissioner has had a personal experience of the dangers of data retention laws. But Triggs’ experience illustrates a point, made over and over in the Digital Rights Watch state of the nation report: your digital life is easily tracked, mapped, stored and exploited. The report from Digital Rights Watch, released on Monday, calls for a series of reforms to better protect Australians’ digital rights. Data Rights Watch is urging the development of an opt-out register for people who do not want their movement data used for commercial purposes. It is also calling for new laws that respects and uphold the right to digital privacy and to data protection.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2018 18:56 UTC