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September 13, 2006 · Blogs

New EDRI members

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the EDRI General Assembly of 3 September 2006 in Berlin, Germany, EDRI welcomed 4 new members. Open Rights Group is a new UK independent, non-profit advocacy group, campaigning for the digital civil rights of British citizens. Alcei from Italy is an association of people dedicated to […]

August 30, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 4.16, 30 August 2006

August 2, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 4.15, 2 August 2006

August 2, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram in German

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Starting with July 2006, EDRI-gram will be available also in German, a few days after the English edition. The translation is done by Andreas Krisch from the EDRI-member VIBE!AT – Austrian Association for Internet Users. Translations are available for all 2006 editions back to issue 3.23 at […]

August 2, 2006 · Blogs

End of activities Bits of Freedom

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) From 1 September 2006 the Dutch NGO Bits of Freedom (BOF) will cease its activities. Since its establishment in 2000, Bits of Freedom has successfully defended digital civil rights, such as privacy on the Internet and online freedom of speech in the Netherlands. The board of Bits […]

July 19, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram Number 4.14, 19 July 2006

July 5, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 4.13, 5 July 2006

July 5, 2006 · Blogs

Terrorist Finance Tracking Program raises privacy questions

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 22-23 June 2006, the New York Times published a story uncovering an international financial surveillance programme, called Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, run by the US authorities. After the 11 September 2001 attacks, the US Treasury Department and/or CIA starting getting access to international transfer data, available […]

June 21, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 4.12, 21 June 2006

June 7, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 4.11, 7 June 2006

June 7, 2006 · Blogs

Dutch Gamer in US intelligence spotlight

A Dutch gamer has become subject of US intelligence and widespread international media attention because of a self-made video-game movie. The video consists of footage of the game Battlefield 2 spiced up with different music and voiceovers. It was presented on 4 May 2006 at a meeting of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence […]

May 24, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 4.10, 24 May 2006