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March 12, 2012 · Blogs

World Day Against Cyber-Censorship

Lire cet article en français Support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all is the message of this year’s world day against cyber-censorship. For the fourth time, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has published a report listing the worst violators of online free speech worldwide. In the following, we want to focus on […]

February 15, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi-Gram – Number 10.3, 15 February 2012

February 2, 2012 · Blogs

ACTA fact sheet

Recently, we have seen many rumours and half-truths about ACTA being circulated by campaigners on all sides. And, as the European Commission’s “fact sheet” 10 Myths about ACTA shows, there are also still a lot of misunderstandings. Many decision makers and citizens seem not yet to be aware of ACTA’s serious implications. In the following, […]

February 1, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi-gram – Number 10.2, 1 February 2012

February 1, 2012 · Blogs

ACTA – Frequently Asked Questions

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frequently Asked Questions zu ACTA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.2_Frequently_Asked_Questions_zu_ACTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120201] French:[ FAQ sur l’ACTA par Joe McNamee, coordinateur à l’EDRI | http://politiquedunetz.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/faq-sur-lacta-par-joe-mcnamee-fondateur-de-ledri/] Romanian:[ Întrebări frecvente despre ACTA | http://apti.ro/intrebari-frecvente-ACTA] 1. Does ACTA require countries to impose “three strikes” rules? Countries that ratify ACTA are required to encourage “cooperation” between private companies […]

February 1, 2012 · Blogs

Email Newsletter EDRi-gram 10.2 delayed

Exceptionally, as a result of some problems with our mail server, we could not send the EDRi-gram newsletter by email in due time to all our subscribers. The web version has been published in due time, but the newsletter will be send probably on Thursday, 2 February 2012, when we estimate that the mail server […]

January 27, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi Initial Comments on the Proposal for a Data Protection Regulation

EDRi welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a new data protection Regulation. Europe needs a comprehensive reform in order to ensure the protection of its citizens’ personal data and privacy, while enhancing legal certainty and competitiveness in a single digital market. Since the “inter-service” draft was leaked in December, there has been a significant lobbying […]

January 18, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi-gram – Number 10.1, 18 January 2012

January 18, 2012 · Blogs

Finnish ISP started blocking The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnischer ISP sperrt The Pirate Bay | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Finnischer_ISP_sperrt_The_Pirate_Bay?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] On 9 January 2012, the Helsinki Enforcement authority obligated Finnish ISP Elisa to execute the court ruling that it had to block access to The Pirate Bay from its network. This is the latest phase in an ongoing legal fight […]

January 18, 2012 · Blogs

Dutch Internet providers forced to block The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische ISPs zur Sperre von The Pirate Bay gezwungen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Niederlaendische_ISPs_zur_Sperre_von_The_Pirate_Bay_gezwungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] In its judgement of 11 January 2012, the Court of The Hague granted Dutch copyright enforcement organisation Brein’s request to order Dutch internet providers Ziggo and XS4ALL to block access to The Pirate Bay. This is the […]

December 14, 2011 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Support EDRi!

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Unterstützen Sie EDRi | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Unterstuetzen_Sie_EDRi?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Increasingly, your digital freedom is under threat. And unfortunately, mostly as a result of European rules. Europe agreed to transfer your travel data wholesale to the US. Europe obliged your telephone provider to store your location, sometimes for up to two years. And […]

December 14, 2011 · Blogs

German web blocking law repealed

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsches Netzsperrengesetz außer Kraft gesetzt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Deutsches_Netzsperrengesetz_ausser_Kraft_gesetzt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] After more than two years of discussions and opposition, on 1 December 2011, the German Parliament has finally taken the decision to drop the Access Impediment Act, the law that proposed blocking access to websites deemed to have child pornographic content. […]