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Export Controls for Digital Weapons
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Exportbeschränkungen für digitale Waffen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Exportbeschraenkungen_fuer_digitale_Waffen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] While the European Governments often praise the positive role the Internet can have on the society in helping empower people and promoting freedom of information and expression, European mass surveillance and censorship software is being exported under their watch. Some governments not […]
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ENDitorial: Global alliance against CP – no disconnect with reality?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Globale Allianz gegen Kinderpornographie – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_ENDitorial_Globale_Allianz_gegen_Kinderpornographie?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] Two and a half years ago, European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström proposed compulsory EU-wide Internet blocking because some countries, with the USA as the chief offender, left child abuse material online rather than removing it. Last […]
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EDRi's websites on the data protection reform package
EDRi has launched two platforms for an easy navigation through the different articles and topics of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive proposed by the European Commission on 25 January 2012. On these two platforms, you can browse through the Recitals, Articles and our Position Papers using […]
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The European Parliament demands a net neutrality law
Today, a large majority of European parliamentarians demanded in two non-legislative resolutions that net neutrality should be enshrined in European Union law. In the context of a non-legislative resolution on Completing the Digital Single Market, the European Parliament “calls on the Commission to propose legislation to ensure net neutrality” and urges Commissioner Kroes to end […]
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"Voluntary enforcement" vs legal restrictions – what rules apply?
Sometimes, watching the Commission make up its mind on a controversial topic is like watching a sports match. One of these topics is the question of whether it is legal for governments to encourage internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict fundamental rights “voluntarily” or whether they would need a legal basis. The European Home Affairs […]
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Q&A on WCIT : Ask the European Commission
Over the next two weeks, EDRi will participate in two video conferences, on the 7 December and 12 December, organised by the European Commission in order to get live feedback from the ITU’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai. The video conferences are an opportunity to get answers on the discussions taking place […]
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Lobbying DP Regulation: European Banking Federation as an example
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Datenschutzverordnung: Lobbyismus am Beispiel der Europäischen Bankenvereinigung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Datenschutzverordnung_Lobbyismus_am_Beispiel_der_Europaeischen_Bankenvereinigung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] With the discussions on the proposed General Data Protection Regulation moving forward, lobbyists in Brussels are working overtime. One example is the European Banking Federation (EBF), which submitted a letter outlining its position and proposed changes to the text […]
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Danish opposition wants to abandon the illegal medicine site blocking
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Dänemark: Opposition will Netzsperren gegen illegalen Medikamentenhandel aufgeben | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Daenemark_Opposition_will_Netzsperren_gegen_illegalen_Medikamentenhandel_aufgeben?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] A majority outside the Danish government parties proposes to abandon blocking access to websites selling illegal medicine. The law (a new revision of the laws regulating selling of medicine etc.) allowing blocking of these sites was passed in […]
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Do we really want to put the ITU in charge of cybersecurity?
Today, the German news site Golem published an article revealing that the ITU left the access to its newslog as good as unprotected. Is this really the institution that should be regulating the internet and be in charge of cybersecurity for the entire world? The following text is a translation of an article on the […]
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EDRi member FoeBuD becomes digitalcourage
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi-Mitglied FoeBuD bekommt neuen Namen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_EDRi-Mitglied_FoeBuD_bekommt_neuen_Namen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121121] EDRi member FoeBuD (Germany) has changed its name to “digitalcourage” on 17 November 2012, on the occasion of the organisation’s 25th anniversary. The old name had been a quickly constructed satirical acronym – a parody on the bureaucratic and cumbersome language […]
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EDRi letter on website blocking & EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi: Schreiben zu Netzsperren & der EU-Charta der Grundrechte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.21_EDRi_Schreiben_zu_Netzsperren_und_der_EU-Charta_der_Grundrechte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] EDRi sent on 2 November 2012 a letter to Commissioner Malmström on a legal contradiction in relation to website blocking that needs to be resolved in order to bring Member States into line with the Charter of […]
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Foreign betting websites might be blocked by the Irish Government
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ Irland: Ausländische Wettseiten könnten gesperrt werden | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.21_Irland_Auslaendische_Wettseiten_koennten_gesperrt_werden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] The Irish government plans to block foreign betting websites. The Betting (Amendment) Bill 2012 would allow the District Court to make orders as follows: “in the case of a remote bookmaker or remote bookmaking intermediary, an order that telecommunications […]
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