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The Internet Society of Australia CEO Laurie Patton has spoken to the Senate Standing Committee looking at the Copyright Amendment Bill of 2015, with Patton’s comments reported in full within.

There’s been a call for greater scrutiny and public debate, and a stop to government ad hoc decision-making on Internet policy and its potential for adverse effects on broadband users.

The chief of the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) has again criticised the federal government’s data retention legislation, raising concerns that the legislation risks “unintended consequences” that will hurt Internet users.

The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) is joining an experts group set up to advise on the implementation of the Data Retention Act.

The Internet Society of Australia has asked the Government to properly consider the consequences of its planned data retention laws.

A proposal by auDA to impose tight security requirements on domain name registrars has gained wide approval but the head of the largest registrar, NetRegistry, warns that it could be overly onerous, and drive smaller registrars out of the market.