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Women's Legal Services NSW
Project title: Technology-facilitated stalking and abuse
Grant round: 2014
Grant: $54,123.40
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Vision Australia
Project title: Document Accessibility Toolbar (DAT)
Grant round: 2014
Grant: $34,158
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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
Project title: Personal Cloud Use in Australia: Consumer expectations, experience and impact on communications consumption
Grant round: 2014
Grant: $38,699.60
Read more: Demystifying personal cloud services for Australian consumers
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Queensland Remote Aboriginal Media
Project title: Yarning and Learning: Communication use and issues in remote Indigenous communities
Grant round: 2014
Grant: $42,100
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Justice Connect
Project title: Don't just sign on the dotted line
Grant round: 2014
Grant: $40,113
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Australian National University: School of Accounting and Business Information Systems
Project title: Competition and comparability in the consumer mobile telecommunications sector
Grant round: 2014
Grant: $30,806
Read more: Investigating competition in the mobile phone marketplace
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Structural changes to the communications market were one of a package of reforms in the 1993 Hilmer Review, which substantially improved competition in the Australian market. This led to a proliferation of consumer choice from the government owned monopoly, Telecom, to the diverse array of competitors Australian consumers have access to today.
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ACCAN has responded to the ACMA's consultation on proposals for deregulatory reform in telecommunications reporting requirements.
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Privacy in Australia is back on the agenda again with the Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC) recent inquiry into Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era. ACCAN's submission to the inquiry focuses on when consumers have a 'reasonable expectation of privacy'. We support the proposed introduction of a new Australian Privacy Principle (APP) which would give consumers the ability to request the destruction or de-identification of their personal information.
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ACCAN, Australia's peak body for communications consumers, says the government's deregulation proposals which could affect the amount of time consumers have to wait to get a landline phone connected or fixed must be more comprehensively reviewed. ACCAN has also flagged concerns around proposed changes to privacy rules for the telco industry.
Read more: ACCAN urges caution on changes to consumer protection for telco services