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UK: Vehicle plate recognition video system ruled illegal
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB: Automatische Kennzeichenerfassung illegal | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_GB_Automatische_Kennzeichenerfassung_illegal?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731] The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), UK’s data protection authority, issued on 24 July 2013, an Enforcement Notice asking the Hertfordshire police to stop using a vehicle plate tracking system that it considered as unlawful. The ICO notice is a result of a […]
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ENDitorial: Belgian railways – a case study in bad internet security
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ ENDitorial: Belgische Bahn – ein Paradebeispiel für mangelnde Sicherheit im Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_ENDitorial_Belgische_Bahn_ein%20Paradebeispiel_fuer_mangelnde_Sicherheit_im_Internet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731 ] Earlier this year, we reported on the major data leak that was suffered by Belgian railways. Following the release of the data – including names, email addresses and even, in some cases, phone […]
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ENDitorial:Leaked telecoms Regulation with or without net neutrality?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Geplante Telekom-Regulierung mit oder ohne Netzneutralität? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_ENDitorial_Geplante_Telekom-Regulierung_mit_oder_ohne_Netzneutralitaet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] Last week, an internal draft of a regulation for a “telecoms single market” was leaked in Brussels. We published an initial reaction to this document. But what are the details of the text and what do they mean? The […]
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The PRISM scandal gets bigger
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [PRISM-Skandal weitet sich immer mehr aus | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_PRISM-Skandal_weitet_sich_immer_mehr_aus?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] Privacy campaigners have filed claims against Prism and Tempora, the US and British spy programmes that allow intelligence agencies to gather, store and share data on millions of innocent people. Privacy International has submitted a claim to the Investigatory Powers […]
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Data retention: "We ask the Court to rule in favour of Freedom"
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdaten: “Das Gericht soll zugunsten der Freiheit entscheiden” | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_Vorratsdaten_Das_Gericht_soll_zugunsten_der_Freiheit_entscheiden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] On 9 July 2013, the European Court of Justice held a hearing before the Grand Chamber on the validity of the data retention directive (2006/24/EC). In line with the questions the involved parties received from the Court, the […]
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Austria: Outsourcing data retention obligations to the US
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [VDS in Österreich: Auslagern der Speicherverpflichtung an die USA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_VDS_in_Oesterreich_Auslagern_der_Speicherverpflichtung_an_die_USA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] During the ECJ lawsuit against the data retention (DR) directive it became clear that DR obligations may have been outsourced to contractors, maybe even to US-based companies, thereby giving US authorities potentially unrestricted access to all such […]
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Unanimous JURI vote on Collective Rights Management directive
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP-Rechtsausschuss: Einstimmige Entscheidung zur kollektiven Rechteverwertung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_EP-Rechtsausschuss_Einstimmige_Entscheidung_zur_kollektiven_Rechteverwertung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] The proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on collective management and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market (hereafter Collective Rights Management Directive) was a good start to […]
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Finland: A new citizens initiative – Lex Snowden
EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) has submitted on 8 July 2013, with support from Avoin Ministeriö, a citizens’ legislative initiative, titled “Yes We Can – The law for safeguarding of freedom of expression and privacy internationally”, to the Ministry of Justice. If the initiative collects 50 000 names (almost 1% of total population of […]
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The French three strikes system gave up on Internet disconnection
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Three-Strikes: Frankreich verabschiedet sich von Netzsperren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_Three-Strikes_Frankreich_verabschiedet_sich_von_Netzsperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] The French three strikes law, known as Hadopi, has for years generated debate and controversy, primarily because it allowed for the disconnection of the Internet connections of individuals deemed to have illegally downloaded copyrighted material. Now, however, there is a […]
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EC notice & action directive to come out of the drawer?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bleibt ‘Notice & Action’-Richtlinie in der Schublade? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_Bleibt_Notice_and_Action-Richtlinie_in_der_Schublade?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] On 3 July 2013, a number of nine MEPs sent a letter to Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, regarding a Notice-and-Action directive that was not prepared but subsequently not published or proposed by the European […]
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Closed environments locking down consumers’ rights
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Geschlossene Systeme sabotieren Rechte der Verbraucher | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_Geschlossene_Systeme_sabotieren_Rechte_der_Verbraucher?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] Can you resell your used apps for your iOS or Android device? How about your video games that you purchased from Valve’s Steam Store? The answer is yes and no. Legally, you are allowed to resell your used apps and […]
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Leaked Regulation: Schrödinger's net neutrality on its way in Europe
A curious text is currently circulating in the Brussels bubble: It is the draft Regulation for a telecoms single market (pdf) mentioned by Commissioner Neelie Kroes, responsible for Europe’s Digital Agenda, in her speech in front of the European Parliament last Tuesday, 9 July (Update: Consolidated version, pdf). During this speech, she emphasised the necessity […]
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