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Press Release: European Parliament shows little ambition on copyright reform
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee approved on 16 June, with 23 votes in favour and 2 against, a non-legislative “Report on the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society(2014/2256(INI)), the so-called InfoSoc Directive. This Report covers how the InfoSoc Directive, one of […]
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Press Release: Privacy and Data Protection under threat from EU Council agreement
Following today’s meeting of the Justice Ministers Council in Luxembourg where an agreement was reached on the proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), EDRi and Privacy International would like to present the following statement: In January 2012, the European Commission, following extensive consultations, published a draft Regulation. The initiative had three priorities – […]
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Council confirms it wants to trade net neutrality for end of roaming charges
Commissioner Oettinger confirmed what European Digital Rights (EDRi) has been fearing from the begining on the so-called “trialogues” on the Telecommunications Single Market Regulation: “Council [is] willing to move on end of roaming if [the European Parliament] engages on all open issues”, Commissioner Oettinger said this morning. The Council is so vehemently opposed to net […]
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European Parliament considering yet another compromise on net neutrality
Ahead of the 2014 elections, the European Parliament voted with a large majority in favour of net neutrality and a coherent approach to internet providers’ interferences with our communications. In March 2015, the Council – representing the Member States – adopted its negotiating position which rejected all elements of the Parliament’s text. It removed the definition […]
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Booklet: TTIP and Digital Rights
Today, European Digital Rights (EDRi) is publishing its latest booklet, “TTIP and digital rights”: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade agreement that is currently being negotiated between the United States and the European Union. TTIP has already raised many concerns among civil society, trade unions, consumer groups, some businesses, and European […]
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2015: Consultations of importance to digital rights
The following is a list of consultations that are of particular importance to digital rights in 2015. We will regularly update this blog post with deadlines, EDRi’s responses and other information that might help you respond. The European institutions and international policy-making bodies frequently organise consultations, which are open not only to industry but also […]
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Surveillance of air passengers: Letter to Parliamentarians
Today, 4 June, in light of the discussion in the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the amendments for the Passenger Name Record (PNR) proposal, we have sent the following e-mail to all members in the Committee: “Dear Ms/Mr ……, Ahead of today’s debate on the proposed EU-PNR Directive, EDRi […]
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Startups for Net Neutrality
The future of our open Internet is at risk. Current EU developments creating the risk of allowing large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to make the internet less open and less free. “Startups for Net Neutrality” believes that the beauty of the Internet is that everybody with a laptop and an Internet connection can change the […]
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ENDitorial: From copywrong to copyright?
“I’ve got two 12-year-old criminals in my kitchen and that can’t be right” (Jonathan Worth, professional photographer) The first round of debates surrounding the copyright reform in the European Parliament are reaching their last stages. Pavel Svoboda’s report on Intellectual Property Right (IPR) enforcement was published on 19 May. The report contains a mixture of […]
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EU Commission set to re-brand the failed CleanIT project
Every once in a while, the European Commission launches talks with the Internet industry to encourage companies to take voluntary actions in response to a very diverse range of possibly illegal or unwanted online activity. Past initiatives have not been hugely successful, and they have frequently raised concerns regarding their vagueness, their lack of transparency […]
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General Data Protection Regulation: Moving forward, slowly
The discussions in the EU on the proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are slowly advancing, but the final destination is still unknown. Commissioner Věra Jourová , who is responsible for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality and has the task of ensuring the “swift adoption of the EU data protection reform”, has stated […]
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Turkey blocks political websites
Engelli Web is an independent monitoring website that lists websites blocked by the Turkish government. Currently it lists over 80 000 domains and the number keeps rising. The real figure is probably much higher, because the government does not disclose the exact list of banned sites. Although the majority of the sites are blocked on […]
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