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Press Release: Vote on Data Protection and Passenger Name Record package
The European Parliament looks set to adopt two proposals on data protection and a proposal on the profiling of air passengers (PNR, Passenger Name Records) tomorrow, 14 April. The two data protection proposals seek to protect our fundamental right to privacy. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) covers the protection of personal data across all […]
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Special report: Poland’s secret services are still using and abusing telecom and Internet data
With almost two million requests for telecommunication data and more than two thousand requests for Internet data concerning Polish citizens in 2015, it is clear that the access to metadata in Poland by the country’s secret services is still out of control. Compared to 2014, the Polish Panoptykon Foundation found that the number of requests […]
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EDRi joins open letter asking for an ambitious copyright reform
In light of the planned copyright reform by the European Commission, EDRi today (7 April, 2016) sent an open letter addressed to President Juncker, First Vice-President Timmermans, Vice-President Ansip and other commissioners. In the letter, we demand an ambitious copyright reform that “that upholds and strengthens fundamental principles such as the limitation of intermediaries’ liability […]
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Commission launches consultations on ancillary copyright and panorama
It is time for new courses in the EU copyright reform menu: How about a neighbouring right for publishers and an EU-wide panorama exception? In December, Commissioner Oettinger presented the what could only be described as the “appetiser”: Citizens should be able to access subscribed streaming services when going on holiday in the EU (imagine, […]
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The lobby-tomy 4: Innovation is the magic word
If there is one term that seems to be popular in the current political climate, it’s “innovation.” Lobbying is about convincing policy makers of the importance of your position. But is innovation really a good argument? The new European data protection regulation is the most lobbied piece of legislation thus far because the subject is […]
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OnlineCensorship.org launches first report
This article was been published on 31 March 2016 on onlinecensorship.org We re-publish it in this EDRi-gram with the kind approval of the team behind onlinecensorship.org Onlinecensorship.org is pleased to share our first report “Unfriending Censorship: Insights from four months of crowdsourced data on social media censorship.” The report draws on data gathered directly from users between November 2015 and […]
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Opt me out of location – campaign and report against mobile tracking
Open Rights Group, a UK member of EDRi has launched a campaign to enable people to opt out of location and web traffic tracking by their mobile providers. The campaign includes a tool to help people find out how to opt out, which is usually quite hard to find information about. The campaign is backed […]
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CJEU hearing on the EU Canada PNR agreement: Still shady
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) had a hearing on 5 April to decide about the referral made on 25 November by the European Parliament on the EU-Canada agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR). Passenger Name Records (PNR) include information provided by passengers and collected by air carriers for commercial purposes, such as, but not […]
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Intelligence organisations get more surveillance powers in Romania
The past few months brought Romania three different surveillance proposals which blatantly increase the powers of the already excessively powerful Romanian intelligence organisations. 1. The first proposal is the new cybersecurity bill that we’ve already covered in past EDRi-gram articles. It would put computer and network security almost entirely under the purview of the many […]
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Final consultation to save the open Internet in Europe
The future of the open and competitive Internet in Europe (so-called “net neutrality”) will be decided in Europe in the coming months. After regulators in India and the United States ruled that Internet companies are not permitted to undermine innovation, competition and free speech, now it is Europe’s turn. Failure in the EU will have […]
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Swedish Supreme Court rules against Freedom of Panorama
Wikimedia’s Swedish chapter was sued in 2013 by BUS (Visual Arts Copyright Society in Sweden) for the site Offentligkonst.se, a site where you can upload your own images of public art so that others can easily find them. BUS claimed that Wikimedia Sweden violated copyright law by publishing images of public artwork online. The Supreme […]
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EU decides that Google is not a search engine
The European Union has adopted legislation which establishes that Google is not a search engine. After two years of legislative process and negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, the final text would also mean that Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckgo are also not search engines. As part of the broad […]
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