October 18, 2013 · Blogs

Data Protection Regulation: Leaked Compromises

On Monday, 21 October, the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee will vote on the following compromise amendments: Voting List (pdf) COMP Article 01 : http://www.edri.org/files/eudatap/01COMPArticle01.pdf COMP Article 02 : http://www.edri.org/files/eudatap/02COMPArticle02.pdf COMP Article 03 : http://www.edri.org/files/eudatap/03COMPArticle03.pdf COMP Article 04 : http://www.edri.org/files/eudatap/04COMPArticle04.pdf COMP Article 05 : http://www.edri.org/files/eudatap/05COMPArticle05.pdf COMP Article 06 : http://www.edri.org/files/eudatap/06COMPArticle06.pdf COMP Article 07 : http://www.edri.org/files/eudatap/07COMPArticle07.pdf […]

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June 12, 2013 · Blogs

The Data Protection Archive

This archive gathers all documents and material produced by EDRi on the Data Protection Regulation and Directive. Index: Full position paper Comments on draft reports and amendments Campaign material Websites Articles 2011 Articles 2012 Articles 2013   Full position paper Position on the Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of […]

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July 18, 2007

Allofmp3.com shut down, but more Russian music websites opened

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The famous website allofmp3.com was quietly shut down at the beginning of July 2007, but the Russian websites that are selling music online at much cheaper prices are on the rise, one of them winning also a lawsuit against Visa. Russian authorities pressured the Moscow-based company MediaServices, […]

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February 15, 2012

European Anti-ACTA protests of 11 February

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Proteste gegen ACTA vom 11. Februar | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Europaeische_Proteste_gegen_ACTA_vom_11_Februar?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] Several tens of thousands of citizens from an estimated 200 cities in Europe went out in the streets on a cold 11 February 2012, in a massive pan-european protest against ACTA and to support digital civil rights. Several EDRI […]

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August 29, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Is this the most criticised draft EU law of all time?

An unprecedentedly broad range of stakeholders have raised concerns that despite its important aims, the measures proposed in the draft EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation are fundamentally incompatible with human rights.

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March 2, 2017 · Blogs

Privacy Camp 2017 in video

On 24 January, the fifth annual Privacy Camp, co-organised by EDRi, Privacy Salon, Université Saint-Louis (USL-B) and the interdisciplinary Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-LSTS) took place in Brussels. Did you miss our #PrivacyCamp17: Controlling data, controlling machines? Now you can watch all the sessions or relive some […]

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March 12, 2008

French website Note2Be.com closed by court order

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the legal action initiated on 14 February by several individual teachers and SNES-FS union, a French court ordered on 3 March 2008 to Note2be.com to eliminate from their site the names of the teachers graded by students. The site, launched on 30 January 2008, that allowed […]

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December 5, 2012

ENDitorial: What could possibly go wrong?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Was soll denn schon schiefgehen? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_ENDitorial_Was_soll_denn_schon_schiefgehen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] With the discussions on the proposed General Data Protection Regulation in full swing and the first published opinions of some European Parliament Committees, several themes of proposed changes emerge. One of these can be paraphrased as “we shouldn’t bother controllers […]

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February 25, 2009

The trial of The Pirate Bay in Sweden

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Pirate-Bay Prozess in Schweden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1303] The big, long and extremely mediatized trial filed on 31 January 2008 by Swedish prosecutors against the four Pirate Bay founders for “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws” started at Stockholm’s District Court, on 16 February 2009. The first day […]

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November 21, 2012

ENDitorial: Silly censorship week: And the winner is…

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Woche der dümmsten Zensurmaßnahme | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_ENDitorial_Woche_der_duemmsten_Zensurmassnahme?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Over the past few years it has become more and more frequent that private companies get to decide what is “appropriate” or “inappropriate” online and what sort of Internet content we are allowed to access. Our rights to privacy and freedom […]

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December 20, 2016 · Press mentions

EDRi’s Press Review 2016

During the past year, our work to defend citizens’ rights and freedoms online has gained an impressive visibility – we counted nearly four hundred mentions! – in European and international media. Below, you can find our press review 2016.

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April 26, 2018 · Campaigns | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Let’s stop the Censorship Machine!

We have to make sure our representatives in the European Parliament oppose Article 13 during their vote in the JURI Committee on the proposed Copyright Reform. The dangers have been pointed out repeatedly. Still, they have remained ignored. We therefore decided to send the message in different languages, hoping Parliamentaries will better relate this time. […]

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