5D | dismiss, distort, distract, dismay, divide objectives |
AAP | Australian Associated Press |
ABCDE framework | actors, behaviours, content, degree, and effect framework |
ACCC | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
ACMA | Australian Communications and Media Authority |
ACRI | Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney |
ACSC | Australian Cyber Security Centre |
ADM | automated decision making |
AEC | Australian Electoral Commission |
AFP | Australian Federal Police |
AFP | Agence France-Presse |
AGD | Attorney-General's Department |
AHRC | Australian Human Rights Commission |
AI | artificial intelligence |
Allens Hub Joint Submission | University of New South Wales Allens Hub for Technology Law and Innovation, Deakin University Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Society on Social Implications of Technology |
API | application programming interface |
ASD | Australian Signals Directorate |
ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
ASIO | Australian Security Intelligence Organisation |
ASPI | Australian Strategic Policy Institute |
bots | robots or algorithmically-driven computer programs designed to carry out specific tasks online, for example, mimicking the behaviour of real users |
CALD | culturally and linguistically diverse |
CCP | Chinese Communist Party |
CFI | counter foreign interference |
CIB | co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour |
CISA | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (US) |
CISC | Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre |
CLO | Community Liaison Officer |
COO | Chief Operating Officer |
Criminal Code | Criminal Code Act 1995 |
CSIS | Canadian Security Intelligence Service |
CSO/s | Civil Society Organisation/s |
DC | District of Columbia (Washington, DC, US) |
Defence and Security Institute | Defence and Security Institute, University of Adelaide |
Department of Communications | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts |
DIGI | Digital Industry Group Inc |
DIGI Code | Australian Code of Practice on Misinformation and Disinformation |
DISARM framework | Disinformation Analysis and Risk Management framework |
EC | European Commission |
EEAS | European External Action Service |
EEAS report | 1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats |
EFI | espionage and foreign interference |
EIAT | Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce |
Electoral committee | Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters |
ENISA | European Union Agency for Cyber Security |
Espionage Act | National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018 |
EU | European Union |
FADT committee | Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade references committee |
FIMI | foreign information manipulation and interference |
FIS | foreign intelligence services |
FITS | Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme |
FMIC | Foreign Malign Influence Centre (US) |
FORT | Facebook Open Research and Transparency Initiative (Meta) |
GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation (EU) |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
Home Affairs | Department of Home Affairs |
HUMINT | human intelligence |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IEEPA | International Emergency Economic Powers Act (US) |
IMSI | International mobile subscriber identity |
INGE | Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation |
INSLM | Independent National Security Legislation Monitor |
IP | Internet protocol |
IRI | Islamic Republic of Iran |
Law Council | Law Council of Australia |
News and Media Research Centre | News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra |
NGO/s | non-government organisation/s |
NSW | New South Wales |
OpenCTI | Open Cyber Threat Intelligence [platform] |
OSINT | open-source intelligence |
PCIO | Partnership for Countering Influence Operations |
PJCIS | Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security |
PR | public relations |
PRC | People's Republic of China |
PSPF | Protective Security Policy Framework |
the Quad | Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the US |
RESTRICT Act | Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act (US) |
SBS | Special Broadcasting Service |
SOCI Act | Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 |
SOCMINT | OSINT gathered from social media platforms |
STIX™ | Structured Threat Information Expression [data format] |
TAG | Threat Analysis Group |
Tibetan Association | Australian Tibetan Community Association |
ToR | terms of reference |
TOR | The Onion Router |
TTPs | tactics, techniques and procedures [of threat actors] |
TV | television |
UFIT | University Foreign Interference Taskforce |
UFWD | United Front Work Department (China) |
UK | United Kingdom |
US | United States of America |
VLOP/s | very large online platform/s |