Australia has started using its anti-encryption laws to force companies to hand over data

We currently live in a world where “little things” like human rights and freedoms inevitably fade from sight to give way to focusing on sheer survival.

And now, what with thoughts of “bottle-cap collecting” – a reference Fallout fans will surely appreciate – you might have forgotten about Australia. And the various and often insidious ways its authorities continue to work hard at undermining the internet and the rights of everyone using it.

But reports out of the country still remind us to keep paying attention and keep counting all the ways it appears to just hate online freedoms.