Actually the Australian constitution has the implied right (as determined by the High Court) of political communication.
If they try to censor web sites containing political debate it would be unconstitutional.
Bosses reading employees' emails will not "protect the nation's critical infrastructure from a cyber attack" instead it will make it easier. If an employee receives an email which is able to exploits a vulnerability if opened it would likely only infected. However if bosses are allowed to read employees' emails and does the bosses computer will become infected.
The proposed powers claimed to address the "growing threat to national security" rather attempt to protect businesses from having employees spend time on things not related to work and malpractices that employees may do. The powers do not address "threats to national security" and it is likely that any gains to business would be outweighed by making it easier to take over computers used for more important tasks within a company such as on a bosses' computer.
If you define free will as "the doctrine that humans (and possibly other entities) are able to choose their actions without being caused to do so by external force" the ability to know what someone will do in advance by reading brain wave activity does not change the fact that the action chosen was not caused by external force, free will not having been violated.
If however one defines free will as being able to make choices without the choice being known before its made, the experiment was unable to disprove free will. Brain activity 7 seconds before the button was pressed decided the hand to use, the choice was simply read in advance, unable to disprove free choice
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Actually the Australian constitution has the implied right (as determined by the High Court) of political communication. If they try to censor web sites containing political debate it would be unconstitutional.
Bosses reading employees' emails will not "protect the nation's critical infrastructure from a cyber attack" instead it will make it easier. If an employee receives an email which is able to exploits a vulnerability if opened it would likely only infected. However if bosses are allowed to read employees' emails and does the bosses computer will become infected.
The proposed powers claimed to address the "growing threat to national security" rather attempt to protect businesses from having employees spend time on things not related to work and malpractices that employees may do. The powers do not address "threats to national security" and it is likely that any gains to business would be outweighed by making it easier to take over computers used for more important tasks within a company such as on a bosses' computer.
If you define free will as "the doctrine that humans (and possibly other entities) are able to choose their actions without being caused to do so by external force" the ability to know what someone will do in advance by reading brain wave activity does not change the fact that the action chosen was not caused by external force, free will not having been violated.
If however one defines free will as being able to make choices without the choice being known before its made, the experiment was unable to disprove free will. Brain activity 7 seconds before the button was pressed decided the hand to use, the choice was simply read in advance, unable to disprove free choice