“Two speakers were censored at the Australian Information Security Association’s annual conference this week in Melbourne. Thomas Drake, former NSA employee and whistleblower, was scheduled to give a talk on the golden age of surveillance, both government and corporate. Suelette Dreyfus, lecturer at the University of Melbourne, was scheduled to give a talk on her work – funded by the EU government – on anonymous whistleblowing technologies like SecureDrop and how they reduce corruption in countries where that is a problem.”