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“Our Data, Our Lives”: The 2013 Public Voice Conference in Warsaw
Like most digital rights or information technologies conferences held since Edward Snowden’s revelations early June, the PRISM scandal and the NSA surveillance program were intensively discussed at the 2013 Public Voice Conference. The conference was held on 24 September 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, in conjunction with the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners on 25-26 September. As […]
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Snowden nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize
Eric Snowden, the whistleblower behind the revelations regarding the electronic surveillance made by NSA, GCHQ and other intelligent services, has been nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the Greens/EFA group and GUE/NGL group. The seven nominees for the 2013 Sakharov Prize were presented at a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Development committees […]
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FBI was controlling servers located in France
The FBI admitted on 12 September 2013 that, in late July, it had secretly taken control of some servers located in France in order to plant a malware within a police action. The agency has introduced the spyware on web pages hosted by Freedom Hosting, meant for Tor anonymization network. The hoster had been exposed since 2011 by activists […]
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Spain: New penal sanctions proposed for alleged illegal linking
Spain plans to toughen its legislation by including penal sanctions for publishing links to alleged pirated content. From a very relaxed environment some years ago, Spain is, more and more, giving in to US pressure after having been threatened to be put on the blacklisted countries. Since his election in December 2011, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has […]
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Surveillance scandal in discussion at the United Nations
The surveillance scandal has now reached the United Nation’s Human Rights Council, which opened its 24th session last week to a volley of questions about privacy and spying, many of them targeted at the United States and United Kingdom. (That’s perhaps not surprising, since U.N. representatives were among those listed as being monitored by the […]
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ENDitorial: The DNT ship is listing
The latest developments in the W3C working group on Do Not Track (euphemistically called the tracking preference working group) since the last time we wrote about this effort are not good, sadly. First in late July the departure of Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford who fought tirelessly to ensure that the W3C process […]
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LIBE inquiry on surveillance
On 5 September 2013, the Civil Liberties (LIBE) committee from the European Parliament organised a first inquiry hearing, which included Jacques Follorou from Le Monde, Jacob Applebaum from the Tor and Wikileaks projects, Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian, Carlos Coelho, EPP MEP and former chairman of the Echelon committee and Gerhard Schmid, former socialist MEP and rapporteur […]
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ENDitorial: EU Parliament wastes time and money on gambling? You bet!
On 17 February 2009, it also adopted a non-binding resolution on the same subject. On 14 October 2011, it adopted another non-binding resolution on the same subject. Most recently, on 10 September 2013, the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution on online gambling. Each time the Internal Market and Consumer Committee (IMCO) has decided to undertake such a report, […]
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Kroes launches her attack on net neutrality in Europe – a “death sentence for innovators”
Tomorrow, the European Commission will finally release its long-awaited draft proposal for a Regulation to complete the European single market for electronic communications. After promising the European Parliament strong measures in favour of net neutrality during her nomination hearing in 2010, she is now seeking to ensure its destruction. It is very disappointing that the […]
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US and UK intelligence campaign against encryption
Top-secret files obtained by the Guardian from former contractor Edward Snowden reveal that NSA and GCHQ, that is the US and British intelligence agencies, cracked the online encryption used by people to protect their personal information such as emails, banking and medical records. The guarantees offered by Internet companies to their consumers that their personal […]
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Net Neutrality threatened by the Commission’s draft regulation
For the past years, EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who started by advocating for net neutrality, has constantly given in to the pressure of large telecom companies, changing her direction from protecting net neutrality to threatening it. The current draft Regulation made public on 11 September 2013 just confirms this direction. La Quadrature du Net and […]
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EDRi and FREE want an end to lawless surveillance
Civil society groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the Fundamental Rights European Experts Group (FREE) have demanded an end to lawless spying on individuals around the globe. At a meeting with the Chair of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee today, the two groups handed over a document containing detailed analysis of the current European […]
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