Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited
  • Get help
    • Criminal charges
    • Bail
    • Child protection
    • Family law
    • Housing and renting
    • Family violence and safety
    • Fines
    • Deaths in custody
    • Problems at work
    • Custody Notification Service
    • Crisis support
  • Get help
    • Get help
    • Criminal charges
    • Bail
    • Child protection
    • Family law
    • Housing and renting
    • Family violence and safety
    • Fines
    • Deaths in custody
    • Problems at work
    • Custody Notification Service
    • Crisis support
  • Reforming the system
    • Policy submissions and publications
    • Closing the Gap
    • Justice reinvestment
    • The Bugmy Evidence Project
    • Family Is Culture
  • Reforming the system
    • Reforming the system
    • Policy submissions and publications
    • Closing the Gap
    • Justice reinvestment
    • The Bugmy Evidence Project
    • Family Is Culture
  • News
  • Get involved
    • Take action with us
    • Career opportunities
    • Volunteer
    • Become a monthly donor
  • Get involved
    • Get involved
    • Take action with us
    • Career opportunities
    • Volunteer
    • Become a monthly donor
  • About
    • About us
    • Our history
    • Our strategic plan
    • Annual reports
    • Governance
  • About
    • About
    • About us
    • Our history
    • Our strategic plan
    • Annual reports
    • Governance
  • Contact
    • Get in touch
    • Office locations
    • Feedback and complaints
  • Contact
    • Contact
    • Get in touch
    • Office locations
    • Feedback and complaints
  • DONATE
Print

Tips to browse safely online

Here you'll find some basic tips to protect your privacy and reduce the ability for people to see what you do online.

The 'Close this site' button

Some pages on this website include a 'Close this site' button. Use this button to quickly hide what you are looking at. You might find this helpful if someone comes into the room or looks over your shoulder and you don't want them to know what you've been looking at.

When you use the 'Close this site' button, it immediately closes this website and opens the Google search page in a new window.

You can also quickly close this site by using the ESC button on your computer keyboard. It immediately closes this website and opens the Google search page in a new window.

The 'Close this site' function doesn't delete your browser history. This means that if someone checks your browser history on your computer or mobile device, they will be able to see everything you looked at on our website.

Clear your browsing history regularly

Web browsers keep track of your online activity through your browser history, cookies and caching. This is so you can find websites you've visited before, but it also means other people can see this data.

To protect your privacy, it's a good idea to clear your browsing history regularly. You can choose to delete everything or only some things.

Find out how to clear your browsing history in:

  • Internet Explorer
  • Google Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Safari on iPhones or iPads.

For other browsers and devices, check the provider's website.

Use private browsing

Private browsing is an easy way to hide your browsing habits. If enabled, when you close your browser, all browsing history and stored cookies from future browsing sessions will automatically disappear.

However, the sites you visited during your current browsing session will record your browsing activity. Your internet service provider will also record this information. Any files you download using private browsing won't be deleted, so other people can access them if they use your device.

Find out how to enable private browsing in:

  • Internet Explorer
    • In the 'Tools' menu (the cog icon on top right of the browser window), select 'Safety', then 'InPrivate Browsing'.
  • Google Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Safari on iPhones or iPads.

For other browsers and devices, check the provider's website.

Accounts and passwords

Don't let your browser auto-save your passwords. While the auto-save function may be convenient, it gives anyone who uses your device access to your accounts.

When you are using an account with a password (e.g. your social media or email account), always log out before leaving the website.

Using other computers and devices

If you are worried about someone looking at your internet use, consider using a computer or device that they can't access.

This might be a computer at your local library, your work computer, or a family or friend's device. But again, don't auto-save any passwords and make sure you log out of your accounts when you've finished using the computer.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This advice is from "Tips to browse safely online" by The State of Queensland.
The content is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license.
© The State of Queensland 2024.
What is this?
To leave this site quickly, click the 'QUICK EXIT' button or press 'ESC' on your keyboard. You will be taken to google.com
Hide Show Quick Exit

Custody reporting made more effective

Custody reporting made more effective

UTS and ALS to develop UX platform for greater functionality

1 September 2020

The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited (‘ALS’) is collaborating with Rapido Social at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to improve its Custody Notification Service (CNS), following project funding from the National Indigenous Advancement Agency (NIAA).

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommended that police notify the Aboriginal Legal Service whenever an Aboriginal person is taken into custody, so it can provide assistance, legal support and help safeguard their well-being.

The ALS has been operating its CNS for 20 years as a 24-hour legal advice and support hotline for any Aboriginal person taken into custody. However the service is currently reliant on an ageing phone and paper based system.

ALS’s Principal Legal Officer, Nadine Miles describes the current system as inefficient with double-handling

“Outdated technology and reliance on paper based systems means that our staff are spending significant amounts of time recording and inputting data, but then being unable to effectively analyse and interpret trends in that data – which is crucial to improving the rights and wellbeing of Aboriginal people in custody,” she said.

ALS is now working with UTS Rapido, an advanced technology development unit which supports organisations to deliver hardware and software products and solutions, working with organisations across all sectors, including not-for-profits through its social innovation unit, Rapido Social.

Rapido Social Impact Manager Sophie Ritchie says the ALS project is a digital transformation process that will create a user-friendly system that makes the data it already collates more accessible for wider insights and understanding.

“Rapido Social will collaborate with ALS staff to develop a user-friendly digital platform that will optimise data collation, and draw on cutting-edge data analytics and reporting capabilities to make information more readily available for analysis by ALS, in NSW/ACT and nationally, for advocacy on behalf of individuals and communities,” she explained.

Nadine Miles says the project has the potential to strengthen the ALS’s advocacy, policy and law reform work.

“An improved data base will both inform and enhance ALS functions and also help meet the needs of Aboriginal people who are in custody – without a good data set, it is not possible to both demonstrate our impact and determine what and where needs are.”

UTS Law Faculty Professor Thalia Anthony says efficient notification systems and data are vital to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody.

“The CNS has proven to save Aboriginal lives and this project will enhance its capacity. It will generate data to improve responses to the needs of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system and enable longer-term planning for support and wraparound services, she said.

Rapido and ALS say this project has the potential to lead the roll out of digital technology to support effective CNS systems nationally.

 

Media Contacts:

ALS: [email protected] / 0427 346 017

UTS: Grainne Murphy / 0427 564 972


  • Share with your friends!

Get help

Donate to support our work


JOIN US

First name:

Last name:

Email:

Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited
  • Get help
  • Reforming the system
  • News
  • Get involved
  • About
  • Contact
Donate
Icon

Call 1800 765 767
for free legal help

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we live, work and travel. We pay our respects to Elders both past and present and acknowledge the contribution and sacrifices our Elders have made to better our community and future. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this site contains names and images of people who have passed away.

Login to Intranet
Website by Principle Co | Built on Nationbuilder | Illustrations by Mumbulla Creative

Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us
© 2025 Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited.

Join us

We'll send you exciting updates on our campaigns and how to join our movement for social justice!


First name:

Last name:

Email:

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, work, and travel, and their Elders past and present.

Warning: This website may contain images and names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have passed away.