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Big Brother Awards – tips and materials for organisers
In October 2018, we will celebrate 20th anniversary of the first Big Brother Awards (BBA) event in UK.
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Welcoming new EDRi members: FSFE, Hermes Center, NOYB, and Xnet
We are proud to announce that the EDRi network has grown again, and we would like to warmly welcome the four new members: Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, NOYB, and Xnet. European Digital Rights has now 39 members in 19 countries.
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Leak: The “copyright troika” launches another censorship machine attack
On 27 April, a two-hour discussion was held on the Copyright Directive in the Council of the European Union.
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Xnet: Petition on net neutrality guideline violation in Spain
In November 2015, the “Telecommunications Single Market Regulation”, which includes provisions on net neutrality, was adopted. In August 2016, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) published its guidelines on the implementation of the net neutrality rules.
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EU Member States fight to retain data retention in place despite CJEU rulings
EU Member States are still working to adopt their position on the ePrivacy Regulation proposed by the European Commission in January 2017. A number of draft compromise texts have been published by the Council Presidency before discussions in the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society (WP TELE).
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LEAK: British EU Commissioner: ID check & prior approval for online posts
In a letter to Commissioner Mariya Gabriel obtained by EDRi1, the British European Commissioner, Sir Julian King, makes it clear that, not alone does he no longer find it acceptable that people should be able to communicate online without prior approval, he also objects to people communicating without being identified. Commissioner King is pushing the […]
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EU Council Presidency rushes to impose new copyfails in the EU
The discussions on the Censorship Machine proposal (a.k.a. upload filters) in the EU has suddenly speeded up.
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Civil society urges Portuguese telecom regulator to uphold net neutrality
On 23 April 2018, 13 civil society organisations submitted a complaint to the Portuguese regulator on one of the most extreme net neutrality violations in Europe, urging them to use their authority to prohibit so-called zero-rating offers.
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Fighting for migrants’ data protection rights in the UK
Since 2014, the United Kingdon (UK) government has steadily rolled out policies to make the country a “hostile environment” for migrants, in the words of Prime Minister Theresa May.
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DPAs require urgent action on air passenger surveillance
The Working Party 29 (WP29) is an advisory body composed of representatives from the data protection authority of each EU Member State, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Commission.
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Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook messages a privacy violation
Less than one month after Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Christopher Wiley exposed the abuse of (so far) 87 million Facebook users’ data, Facebook Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerburg testified before the US Congress.
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Privacy at ICANN: WHOIS winning?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has struggled over the publication of the name, address, phone number, and email address of domain name registrants since its inception in 1998. That registry is called WHOIS.
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