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July 2, 2003 · Blogs

Foundation of Turkish digital civil rights group

At the end of this year, Turkey will have its first digital civil rights group. Foundational work started in April 2003. Initiator is Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, the founder and director of Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties (UK). According to Akdeniz, the organisation aims to protect the interests of all honest, law-abiding Turkish Internet users with the aim […]

July 2, 2003 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 12, 2 July 2003

June 19, 2003 · Blogs

EDRi-gram – Number 11, 19 June 2003

June 19, 2003 · Blogs

Plans to extend Schengen Information System

The European Parliament currently discusses 3 different reports about the Schengen Information System (SIS). Rapporteur for all three reports is Carlos Coelho. The reports aim at extending the amount of data handled and the degree of cross-linking within the computer network. Coelho, a Portuguese Conservative, has already been the Rapporteur on four previous reports on […]

June 4, 2003 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 10, 4 June 2003

May 21, 2003 · Blogs

Romania forbids free access to online pornography

Romania has adopted a new law to make free access to pornography illegal. Online pornography must always be protected by a password, and should always charge a fee per minute, to be declared with the fiscal authorities. Free access is explicitly forbidden in a law formally adopted on 20 May 2003. The law has raised […]

May 21, 2003 · Blogs

Update on Swiss website blocking order

The internet censorship requests issued by the examining magistrate of the canton of Vaud (see EDRigram number 2 from 12 February) have been rejected on 30 April by a judge from the court of Lausanne. In December, over 30 providers had received the order, and while most of them installed some technical blocking-measures, they joined […]

May 21, 2003 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 9, 21 May 2003

May 7, 2003 · Blogs

EDRi-gram – Number 8, 7 May 2003

April 23, 2003 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 7, 23 April 2003

April 9, 2003 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 6, 9 April 2003

April 9, 2003 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Danish committee on citizens IT-rights

The Danish ministry of science and technology has mandated a committee on citizens IT-rights. The committee has representatives from various ministries, consumer organisations, the IT-business sector and civil society. EDRi-member Digital Rights has participated in the committee since it started its work in September 2002. The aim of the committee is to give recommendations to […]