EDRi-Gram

From edri.org

• TiSA impact assessment report ignores crucial human rights concerns
• Tear down the tracking wall
• No justification for internet censorship during Catalan referendum
• EU Commission "Tackling Illegal Content" - dangerous for free speech
• Consumer Committee chooses Google ahead of citizens – again
• The privacy movement and dissent: Art
• ENDitorial: Tinder and me: My life, my business

Recommended reading

• Digital repression and resistance during the #CatalanReferendum (04.10.2017)
• Connected health devices violate users privacy (28.09.2017)
• OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media warns Germany social networks law could have disproportionate effect (04.10.2017)
• Case Study: Fintech and the Financial Exploitation of Customer Data (30.08.2017)
• Stop the Border Surveillance Bills

Recommended action

• Big Brother is watching us!

  Join us on Friday 13 October in Brussels to witness who will be crowned the ultimate privacy villain of 2017 in the Belgian Big Brother Awards! We nominated the European trend of "state hacking". Don't forget to vote for your favourite!
  https://bigbrotherawards.be/en/

Agenda

• 06.10.2017 Freedom not Fear 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Budapest

  Budapest, Hungary

• 13.10.2017 Big Brother Awards Belgium 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 20.10.2017 TRUST – Think Realistic when Using Sophisticated Technologies – 33rd FIfF annual conference

  Jena, Germany

• 20.10.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Lisbon

  Lisbon, Portugal

• 23.10.2017 PrivacyWeek

  Vienna, Austria

From edri.org

• Cross-border access to data has to respect human rights principles
• EDRi delivers paper on encryption workarounds and human rights
• Should video-sharing platforms be part of the AVMSD?
• Did the EU Commission hide a study that did not suit their agenda?
• Secret documents reveal: BND attacked Tor and advises not to use it
• Dutch digital investigation: Pushing the boundaries of legality
• Human Rights Court sets limits on right to monitor employees

Recommended reading

• European Commission Joint Communication to the European Parliament and the Coucil: Resilience, Deterrence and Defence: Building strong cybersecurity for the EU (13.09.2017)
• Facebook’s war on free will (19.09.2017)
• The Israeli Digital Rights Movement's campaign for privacy (19.09.2017)
• US Cross-Border Data Deal Could Open Surveillance Floodgates (18.09.2017)

Recommended action

• Register for Freedom not Fear 2017!

  Join us for the annual Freedom not Fear barcamp in Brussels on 6-9 October 2017! Internet and human rights activists from all over Europe will meet to work for freedom in the digitised world. You can register for travel allowances until 22 September!
  https://www.freedomnotfear.org/fnf-2017/register-for-travel-allowances-now

• Public Money? Public Code!

  Demand publicly financed software that has been developed for the public sector to be made available under a Free and Open Source Software licence - sign the open letter!
  https://publiccode.eu/openletter/

Agenda

• 22.09.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Ljubljana

  Ljubljana, Slovenia

• 28.09.2017 CopyCamp 2017 – The Internet of Copyrighted Things

  Warsaw, Poland

• 29.09.2017 EU Hackathon 2017 #OnOurWatchEU

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2017 Freedom not Fear 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Budapest

  Budapest, Hungary

• 13.10.2017 Big Brother Awards Belgium 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Winter is here
• Six states raise concerns about legality of Copyright Directive
• Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering
• Denmark: Targeted ANPR data retention turned into mass surveillance
• Controversial testing of facial recognition software in Germany
• Netherlands: Sharing of travel data violated students' privacy
• Private copy levy: Just pay up! Then we’ll see...

Recommended reading

• The Guide to International Law and Surveillance (25.08.2017)
• Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex (31.08.2017)
• Crypto for kids
• On internet privacy, be very afraid (24.08.2017)

Recommended action

• Support our work!

  We need your support to defend your rights and freedoms!
  https://edri.org/donate/

Agenda

• 22.09.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Ljubljana

  Ljubljana, Slovenia

• 28.09.2017 CopyCamp 2017 – The Internet of Copyrighted Things

  Warsaw, Poland

• 29.09.2017 EU Hackathon 2017 #OnOurWatchEU

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2017 Freedom not Fear 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Budapest

  Budapest, Hungary

• 13.10.2017 Big Brother Awards Belgium 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Italy plans to extend telecoms data retention
• EU decision-making is not EU administration, says EU administration
• The School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright 2017
• The privacy movement and dissent: Whistleblowing
• Member Spotlight: Electronic Frontier Norway

Recommended reading

• How Google took over the classroom (17.05.2017)
• A sociology of the smartphone
• Let's save the Internet for future generations (video)
• What is Data Exploitation? (video)

Recommended action

• Nominate Human Rights Heroes & Villains!

  Name a hero who has protected the principles of freedom online or a villain who has worked to undermine them! EDRi member Access Now is looking for nominations for its fourth annual Heroes & Villains Awards.
  https://www.accessnow.org/now-accepting-nominations-fourth-annual-heroes-villains-awards

Agenda

• 30.08.2017 MyData 2017

  Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland

• 01.09.2017 Das ist Netzpolitik! Conference 2017

  Berlin, Germany

• 22.09.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Ljubljana

  Ljubljana, Slovenia

• 28.09.2017 CopyCamp 2017 – The Internet of Copyrighted Things

  Warsaw, Poland

• 29.09.2017 EU Hackathon 2017 #OnOurWatchEU

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Budapest

  Budapest, Hungary

From edri.org

• CJEU: Draft EU/Canada air passenger data deal is unacceptable
• Norway introduces forced biometric authentication
• Oversight Board report: Illegal surveillance of Danish citizens
• Copyright Directive discussed in Romania
• #ValuesGap: Commercial interests win where all others fail
• Stalking is easy with Facebook, and now even easier with Snapchat
• Dutch Senate votes in favour of dragnet surveillance powers
• ENDitorial: Draconian anti-terrorism measures instil terror

Recommended reading

• Social media: the Faustian deal (13.07.2017)
• If FCC gets its way, we’ll lose a lot more than net neutrality (12.07.2017)
• LIBE submits more than 800 amendments to ePrivacy Regulation (20.07.2017)
• What we lose when the World moves on from email (12.07.2017)

Recommended action

• Join the Digital Defenders!

  Join the team of Digital Defenders - support our work for your right to privacy, net neutrality, freedom of expression, and modernisation of copyright rules with a monthly donation!
  https://edri.org/supporters/

Agenda

• 04.08.2017 SHA2017

  Zeewolde, the Netherlands

• 09.08.2017 Wikimania 2017

  Montréal, Canada

• 30.08.2017 MyData 2017

  Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland

• 01.09.2017 Das ist Netzpolitik! Conference 2017

  Berlin, Germany

• 22.09.2017 School of Rock(ing) Copyright – Ljubljana

  Ljubljana, Slovenia

• 28.09.2017 CopyCamp 2017 – The Internet of Copyrighted Things

  Warsaw, Poland

From edri.org

• Latest copyright votes: Filtering, blocking & half-baked compromises
• Commission report on child protection online lacks facts and evidence
• Net Neutrality: BEREC misses opportunity to lead the way
• Total information awareness for law enforcement, no data protection
• Dissent in the privacy movement: whistleblowing, art and protest

Recommended reading

• Turkish authorities detain top human rights defenders at training workshop
• "Who has your back?" - WhatsApp scores low on EFF's privacy rating
• Google removed 2.5 billion "pirate" search results
• What happens when your car gets hacked?
• Internet surveillance, regulation, and chilling effects online: a comparative case study
• Hacker Lexicon: What Is steganography?

Recommended action

• Don't miss the Digital Rights Fund!

  The Digital Rights Fund is a peer-driven programme that funds work for digital rights in Europe. Grant proposals need to be formally submitted by an EDRi member organisation, but the programme encourages collaboration and cooperation with other civil society and civil liberty organisations.
  https://digitalrights.fund/

• Join the Digital Defenders!

  European Digital Rights fights for your right to privacy, freedom of expression, modernisation of copyright rules, net neutrality, and against mass surveillance. Join the team of Digital Defenders - support our work with a donation!
  https://edri.org/donate/

Agenda

• 14.07.2017 Digital-born Media Carnival

  Kotor, Montenegro

• 19.07.2017 Data Investigation Camp

  Perast, Montenegro

• 04.08.2017 SHA2017

  Zeewolde, the Netherlands

• 09.08.2017 Wikimania 2017

  Montréal, Canada

• 30.08.2017 MyData 2017

  Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland

• 01.09.2017 Das ist Netzpolitik! Conference 2017

  Berlin, Germany

From edri.org

• Are we on the right track for a strong e-Privacy Regulation?
• Denmark allows massive retention of location data for mobile internet
• The Freedom Index – easing access to information on rights issues
• An end to copyright blackmail letters in Finland?
• Proposed Copyright Directive – Commissioner confirms it is illegal

Recommended reading

• The Hackers Russia-Proofing Germany’s Elections
• A Cyberattack ‘the World Isn’t Ready For’
• The European Commission is thinking… about government hacking
• The Identity We Can't Change
• Data is giving rise to a new economy
• Get Ready for the Next Big Privacy Backlash Against Facebook

Recommended action

• Demand strong #SecurityForAll!

  Encryption isn't a security problem. It's a security solution. Tell your government: No backdoors!
  https://securetheinternet.org/

• Take a stand against data retention!

  Join EDRi members Digitalcourage, AK Vorrat and FIfF on 29 June in protest at the German Parliament against the restart of telecommunications data retention in Germany! Providers would have been obliged to start implementing the new law on 1 July, but things are moving: one provider was exempted after launching an appeal, citing incompatibility with EU law, several constitutional complaints are pending, and the Federal Network Agency said it will not impose fines for providers, prompting other large providers to announce they will not start storing the data. The protest will call for an EU-wide ban, demand an end to this uncertainty for users about the surveillance they are under, and put pressure on politicians to end this Schrödinger-esque state.
  https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2017/protest-vds-beginn

Agenda

• 28.06.2017 Privacy Training Center’s PrivacyCafé

  Brussels, Belgium

• 30.06.2017 npbbxl 4.4: Net politics meet-up

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.07.2017 Digital-born Media Carnival

  Kotor, Montenegro

• 19.07.2017 Data Investigation Camp

  Perast, Montenegro

• 04.08.2017 SHA2017

  Zeewolde, the Netherlands

• 09.08.2017 Wikimania 2017

  Montréal, Canada

From edri.org

• UN Rapporteur demands respect for freedom of expression online
• Access to e-evidence: Inevitable sacrifice of our right to privacy?
• Commission’s waiting game: Gambling with freedom of information
• Internet clampdown - convenient distraction from political turmoil?
• Running an algorithmic empire: The human fabric of Facebook
• Consumer Committee rejects upload filter but fails on “link tax”
• #ALTwitter privacy revelation: European parliamentarian goes bananas
• ENDitorial: AVMSD – the “legislation without friends” Directive?

Recommended reading

• An assessment of the Commission’s Proposal on Privacy and Electronic Communications
• Who Are the Shadow Brokers?
• Self-regulation of internet intermediaries: public duty versus private responsibility
• Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police taps the internet
• Social media intelligence and profiling in the insurance industry…
• Is “I forget” a valid defense when court orders demand a smartphone password?

Recommended action

• Protect your privacy!

  Take control over the traces you leave behind online and make sure your personal information is as secure as possible. Check out these tips for protecting your privacy online, or join a free hands-on workshop at the PrivacyCafé in Brussels on 28 June 2017: https://www.privacytraining.org/en/public-events/
  https://www.wnyc.org/story/privacy-paradox-tip-sheet/

• Find out about cooperation and funding opportunities for digital rights in Europe!

  Join us for the webinar "European arena of digital rights - opportunities for cooperation and funding" on 21 June 2017!
  https://mev.clickmeeting.com/424899835/register

Agenda

• 21.06.2017 Webinar: European arena of digital rights – opportunities for cooperation and funding

• 23.06.2017 EDRi network gathering

  Vienna, Austria

• 28.06.2017 Privacy Training Center’s PrivacyCafé

  Brussels, Belgium

• 30.06.2017 npbbxl 4.4: Net politics meet-up

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.07.2017 Digital-born Media Carnival

  Kotor, Montenegro

• 19.07.2017 Data Investigation Camp

  Perast, Montenegro

From edri.org

• EU Commission on FOI request: Incompetence or ill-intent?
• Parliamentarians encourage online platforms to censor legal content
• ALTwitter: The treasure trove behind 140 characters
• The EU must take action to protect whistleblowers
• Romanian Parliament: EU Copyright reform does more harm than good
• Irish police phone tapping undermines citizens’ rights
• UK government pushes for companies to weaken encryption
• ENDitorial: Consumer protection MEPs launch attack on consumers

Recommended reading

• Looking back on our 2016 victories
• How Facebook's tentacles reach further than you think
• Time to decide on Internet of Things liability
• The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
• ‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
• Courts Are Using AI to Sentence Criminals. That Must Stop Now
• ENISA works together with European semiconductor industry on key cybersecurity areas
• Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence

Recommended action

• Apply for Digital-born Media Carnival!

  Digital-born Media Carnival is a four-day event gathering more than hundred of online media representatives, information explorers and digital rights enthusiasts to discuss fake news, ethics, sustainability, business models, creativity, innovation in reporting, manipulation, the online media market, surveillance, privacy, post-truth... It will take place on 14-18 July in Kotor, Montenegro. You can apply until 1 June.
  http://www.shareconference.net/carnival/

Agenda

• 01.06.2017 MAPPING Conference on the Future of IPR

  Sofia, Bulgaria

• 05.06.2017 MAPPING Workshop on Internet Observatories

  Tallinn, Estonia

• 06.06.2017 Net politics meet-up #npbbxl

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.06.2017 EuroDIG 2017

  Tallinn, Estonia

• 09.06.2017 Bits of Freedom D-Day

  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 21.06.2017 Webinar: European arena of digital rights – opportunities for cooperation and funding

From edri.org

• Dutch ban on zero-rating struck down – major blow to net neutrality
• BBA Germany 2017: Espionage, threats, tracking, provoking cyber wars
• UK Digital Economy Act: Millions of websites could be blocked
• ALTwitter – profiling with metadata
• AVMSD: European Parliament set to vote whether it’s allowed to vote
• Reclaim the net! Copyright and online freedoms at re:publica17
• Killing parody, killing memes, killing the internet?
• ENDitorial: A broken promise on fundamental rights

Recommended reading

• Leaked NSA malware is helping hijack computers around the world
• The inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, "fake news," and why net neutrality is so important
• The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
• One day, a machine will smell whether you’re sick
• Defining hate speech
• WannaCry Ransomware picture collection from infected countries around the world

Recommended action

• Protect whistleblowers - respond to the public consultation!

  There is still some time for you to respond to the European Commission's public consultation on whistleblower protection. Whistleblowing is essential to our democracy, safeguarding the public interest. Make sure your voice is heard and share your view before 29 May 2017.
  https://edri.org/2017-important-consultations-for-digital-rights/

Agenda

• 20.05.2017 European Journalism in the Digital Age: Rights and Risks

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 24.05.2017 South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG)

  Ohrid, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

• 01.06.2017 MAPPING Conference on the Future of IPR

  Sofia, Bulgaria

• 05.06.2017 MAPPING Workshop on Internet Observatories

  Tallinn, Estonia

• 06.06.2017 EuroDIG 2017

  Tallinn, Estonia

• 06.06.2017 Net politics meet-up #npbbxl

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EU data protection watchdogs support stronger ePrivacy legislation
• Hakuna Metadata – Let’s have some fun with Sid’s browsing history!
• AVMSD: It isn’t censorship if the content is mostly legal, right?
• Encryption – debunking the myths
• Member Spotlight: epicenter.works

Recommended reading

• UN expert urges governments to end “demonization” of critical media and protect journalists
• Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosopher of the Limits of Computers, Dies at 87
• Encryption and the Press Clause
• Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker
• Where Speech Goes, Repression Follows: The Global Trend of Criminalizing Online Speech
• The Future of IoT in Cities (A Summary Report)

Recommended action

• Watch the German #BBA17 in English!

  On 5 May, six organisations in business and government will definitely not be amused, because they will receive a Big Brother Award from EDRi member Digitalcourage. Already for several years, the award speeches have been translated into English. Now, for the second time, also the livestream of the gala will be available with interpretation. Watch the German BBA 2017 live from 18:00 local time (16:00 UTC) on 5 May 2017!
  https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/stream

• Share your knowledge at CopyCamp!

  CopyCamp, an annual conference about social and economic aspects of copyright in Europe, will take place on 28-29 September 2017 in Warsaw, Poland. EDRi member the Modern Poland Foundation is launching an Open Call for Speakers and invites you to participate.
  https://copycamp.pl/en/contact/register-speaker/

Agenda

• 05.05.2017 Big Brother Awards Germany 2017

  Bielefeld, Germany

• 08.05.2017 re:publica 2017

  Berlin, Germany

• 13.05.2017 Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL)

  Tirana, Albania

• 20.05.2017 European Journalism in the Digital Age: Rights and Risks

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 24.05.2017 South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG)

  Ohrid, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

• 01.06.2017 MAPPING Conference on the Future of IPR

  Sofia, Bulgaria

From edri.org

• AVMS Directive – censorship by coercive comedy confusion
• Dangerous myths peddled about data subject access rights
• Data mining for profit and election result – how predictable are we?
• German Social Media law – sharp criticism from leading legal expert
• Challenges for “Legal Frameworks for Hacking by Law Enforcement”
• Member Spotlight: SHARE Foundation

Recommended reading

• Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?
• AI Isn’t Smart Enough (Yet) to Spot Horrific Facebook Videos
• How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
• Project SMILE: Interface for European telecommunications interception
• How Bulk Interception Works
• Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them

Recommended action

• Tell your #privacystory!

  EDRi member EFF is collecting stories from people about the moment digital privacy first started mattering in their lives. Help spur a broader public conversation about the value of privacy in our digital world: Watch the video and add to the conversation with a blogpost, an article, or a short video, and tweet using the hashtag #privacystory!"
  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/when-did-you-first-realize-importance-online-privacy

Agenda

• 22.04.2017 Quadrature Communication Camp 2017

  Paris, France

• 24.04.2017 Digitised security: How to read the surveillance discourse and fight it!

  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 05.05.2017 Big Brother Awards Germany 2017

  Bielefeld, Germany

• 08.05.2017 re:publica 2017

  Berlin, Germany

• 13.05.2017 Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL)

  Tirana, Albania

• 20.05.2017 European Journalism in the Digital Age: Rights and Risks

  Belgrade, Serbia

From edri.org

• Social media companies launch upload filter to combat “terrorism and extremism”
• Denmark: Weakening the oversight of intelligence services
• UK government attacks encryption ... again
• Reckless social media law threatens freedom of expression in Germany
• What to do with the online platforms – the academics point of view
• ENDitorial: Transparency and law-making on EU copyright – mutually exclusive?

Recommended reading

• The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online
• How To Talk About the Right to Privacy at the UN: A Brief Guide
• Big brother getting bigger? The privacy issues surrounding Aadhaar are worrying
• Fake News and Fake Solutions: How Do We Build a Civics of Trust?
• Restricted Eurojust report highlights use of intelligence in terrorism court cases across the EU
• Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online
• Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?

Recommended action

• Help make copyright right right now!

  Sign the petition and support the campaign to ensure the freedom to teach without breaking the law! This campaign is part of COMMUNIA’s project Copyright Reform for Education, and it aims to raise awareness about copyright in education and the need to reform the copyright system among educational institutions and educators.
  https://rightcopyright.eu/

Agenda

• 22.04.2017 Quadrature Communication Camp 2017

  Paris, France

• 24.04.2017 Digitised security: How to read the surveillance discourse and fight it!

  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 05.05.2017 Big Brother Awards Germany 2017

  Bielefeld, Germany

• 08.05.2017 re:publica 2017

  Berlin, Germany

• 13.05.2017 Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL)

  Tirana, Albania

• 20.05.2017 European Journalism in the Digital Age: Rights and Risks

  Belgrade, Serbia

From edri.org

• Hakuna Metadata - Exploring the browsing history
• EU moves one step closer to the world’s worst internet filtering law
• Human rights court: Website not liable for anonymous comment
• Switzerland: Blocking of gambling sites - gambling with human rights
• Multilateral Investment Court System does not deliver equal justice
• New e-Privacy rules need improvements to help build trust

Recommended reading

• UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy
• No, you shouldn’t delete Signal or other encrypted apps
• UK’s Piracy Blocklist Now Exceeds 3,800 URLs
• I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.
• Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?

Recommended action

• Nominate your candidate for the Disobedience Award!

  Submit your nomination for the MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award: a person or group engaged in an extraordinary example of disobedience for the benefit of society. The Award honours work that impacts society in positive ways, and that is consistent with the principles of non-violence, creativity, courage, and taking responsibility for one’s actions. This disobedience is not limited to specific disciplines; examples include scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights, and the freedom to innovate.
  https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disobedience-award/

Agenda

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• 29.03.2017 RightsCon Brussels 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.04.2017 2nd International Conference on the Right of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age

  Nicosia, Cyprus

• 22.04.2017 Quadrature Communication Camp 2017

  Paris, France

• 24.04.2017 Digitised security: How to read the surveillance discourse and fight it!

  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 05.05.2017 Big Brother Awards Germany 2017

  Bielefeld, Germany

From edri.org

• Danish Defence Intelligence Service will get access to PNR data
• The tale of the fight for transparency in the EU Internet Forum
• Is Telefónica offering real transparency and control?
• Denmark: Our data retention law is illegal, but we keep it for now
• German intelligence agency violates freedom of the press
• Net neutrality & privacy - Europe’s way of trumping destructionism?
• People with disabilities do not want just any Accessibility Act
• Audiovisual Media Services Directive - good enough to be a law?

Recommended reading

• Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
• Gendering Surveillance: An Introduction
• Combating “Fake News” With a Smartphone “Proof Mode”
• Public artworks and the freedom of panorama controversy: a case of Wikimedia influence
• Journalists in jeopardy: Media workers silenced through violence and arrest in 2016

Recommended action

• Apply for a training course on European journalism in the digital age!

  Freedom of expression is under unprecedented pressure, even in countries with a long tradition of democracy. The Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University, Budapest, and SHARE Foundation, Novi Sad, are launching a “hybrid-style” course to tackle the challenges that come with publishing in the public interest. Applications for this intensive two-day workshop in Belgrade are open until 31 March.
  http://www.shareconference.net/en/news/european-journalism-digital-age-training-course-applications-now-open

• #savethememe and stop the #censorshipmachine!

  Watch and share this video that explains which ones of your rights and freedoms are under attack by the Article 13 of the new European copyright proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAcTeYtUzQY, and call the European Parliament to appeal for a meaningful copyright reform!
  https://savethememe.net/

Agenda

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• 29.03.2017 RightsCon Brussels 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.04.2017 2nd International Conference on the Right of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age

  Nicosia, Cyprus

• 22.04.2017 Quadrature Communication Camp 2017

  Paris, France

From edri.org

• Illegal surveillance against civil society continues in Macedonia
• Proposed Espionage Act threatens free speech in the UK
• Dutch House of Representatives passes dragnet surveillance bill
• What does your browsing history say about you?
• New legal framework for predictive policing in Denmark
• The UK Digital Economy Bill: Threat to free speech and privacy
• Consultation on multilateral investment court misses the point
• Lead Parliamentarian for Culture Committee defends upload filtering
• Recklessly unclear Terrorism Directive creates significant risks for citizens' security

Recommended reading

• What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border? (15.02.2017)
• Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices (2011)
• Edward Snowden’s New Job: Protecting Reporters From Spies (14.02.2017)
• How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour (09.11.2016)

Recommended action

• Join the seminar on digital rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina!

  Apply now for a youth seminar close to Sarajevo (24-30 April 2017) and help turn activists into Digital Rights Activists. The programme will be highly interactive and includes discussions on how the online security discourse impacts fundamental rights as well as hands-on practical sessions.
  
  https://www.cdnee.org/call-for-participants-digitised-security/

Agenda

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• 29.03.2017 RightsCon Brussels 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.04.2017 2nd International Conference on the Right of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age

  Nicosia, Cyprus

• 22.04.2017 Quadrature Communication Camp 2017

  Paris, France

From edri.org

• European fund for digital rights launched
• Proposed surveillance package in Austria sparks resistance
• Belgium agrees on passenger controls of international rail traffic
• Nine controversies about obligatory prepaid registration
• Dutch Parliament: Safety net for democratic freedoms or sleepnet?
• Are the US-EU data agreements still alive?
• SHARE Foundation honoured with a certificate of gratitude
• ENDitorial: Fake news about fake news being news

Recommended reading

• Privacy is Power - Why the fight for privacy matters (07.02.2017)
• Trump repudiates agreement with EU on PNR data (29.01.2017)
• A Typology of Privacy

Recommended action

• Join the Digital Defenders!

  Read our guide to Digital Defenders, and become one by translating the booklet, distributing it in schools in your country, or donating to cover the print costs!
  https://edri.org/digital-defenders-help-kids-defend-their-privacy-around-europe/

Agenda

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• 29.03.2017 RightsCon Brussels 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.04.2017 2nd International Conference on the Right of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age

  Nicosia, Cyprus

• 22.04.2017 Quadrature Communication Camp 2017

  Paris, France

From edri.org

• New Danish law can lead to substantial internet censorship
• e-Privacy Regulation: Good intentions but a lot of work to do
• Germany: Fighting the anti-whistleblower provision
• #PrivacyCamp17: Controlling data, controlling machines
• Commission’s 2017 Work Programme: The good, the bad & the ambiguous
• Protecting whistleblowers – protecting democracy
• From EDRi to the World in 2016

Recommended reading

• Dangerously disproportionate - The ever-expanding security state in Europe
• Notable Privacy and Security Books from 2016
• Criminal justice access to electronic evidence in the cloud: Recommendations for consideration by the T-CY Final report of the T-CY Cloud Evidence Group (16.10.2016)
• Coding and encoding rights in internet infrastructure (17.01.2017)

Recommended action

• Help to shape a brighter future for your digital rights!

  Public consultations are an opportunity to influence policy-making at an early stage. Check out the relevant ones to your digital rights and have your say!
  https://edri.org/2017-important-consultations-for-digital-rights/

Agenda

• 25.01.2017 CPDP 2017: The age of intelligent machines

  Brussels, Belgium

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• 29.03.2017 RightsCon Brussels 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.04.2017 2nd International Conference on the Right of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age

  Nicosia, Cyprus

From edri.org

• 2017 - another extremely challenging year for digital rights
• The hacking law with its own backdoor
• The Republic of Moldova: “Big Brother” Law
• Snowden: Surveillance is about control
• EDRi.org: Best of 2016
• ENDitorial: Happiness – owning nothing and having no privacy?

Recommended reading

• Boundaries of Law: Exploring Transparency, Accountability, and Oversight of Government Surveillance Regimes (05.01.2017)
• Inside the assasination complex: Whistleblowing is not just leaking — It’s an act of political resistance (03.05.2016)
• Call For Views: Modernising the European Copyright Framework (05.12.2016)
• Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy (05.10.2016)

Recommended action

• Take survey on data privacy in DE, AT, CH!

  A joint survey by StartPage, StartMail and EDRi members Digitalcourage (DE) and epicenter.works (AT) asks users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to give their opinion on privacy and surveillance. The survey is to be run annually to accompany Data Privacy Day on 28 January. This year's survey will run until Tuesday, 24 January, with some results to be published on Data Privacy Day, and others in the time beyond. The hope is to give users a voice in the ongoing debate on whether increased state surveillance and weakened protections on commercial data processing are in the public interest.
  https://datenschutztag.org/survey/

• Join Bits of Freedom!

  EDRi member Bits of Freedom is looking for a Dutch-speaking full-time campaigner.
  https://bof.nl/2017/01/04/vacature-bits-of-freedom-zoekt-een-gedreven-campaigner/

Agenda

• 24.01.2017 Privacy Camp 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.01.2017 CPDP 2017: The age of intelligent machines

  Brussels, Belgium

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• 29.03.2017 RightsCon Brussels 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Digital Defenders help kids defend their privacy around Europe
• Council debates encryption and other closed-door matters
• Net neutrality violations ceased after AKVorrat intervention
• Google’s forgetful approach to the “right to be forgotten”
• Polish government: Watchdogs are not welcome
• How to defend yourself against online surveillance
• ENDitorial: What do two copywrongs make? Definitely not a copyright

Recommended reading

• e-Privacy Directive revision: Document pool
• Copyright reform: Document pool
• Weapons of Math Destruction

Recommended action

• Become a Brussels lobbyist!

  Ever wondered how lobbyists get what they want? One way is by repeating buzzwords and mantras that create fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of policy-makers. Now you can become a lobbyist, with our special artificial unintelligence lobby-letter-creation-tool!
  https://edri.org/lobbyletter/

Agenda

• 26.12.2016 33C3 – the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 24.01.2017 Privacy Camp 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.01.2017 CPDP 2017: The age of intelligent machines

  Brussels, Belgium

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

From edri.org

• Commission responds to Ombudsman investigation on EU Internet Forum
• Info warfare in Serbia: The hidden hand of internet interventionism
• The post truth of “threat intelligence”
• Dutch BBA 2016: Facial recognition, medical data and safe messaging
• Free flow of data – what is it?
• European Union Directive on counterterrorism is seriously flawed
• Freedom not to be labelled: How to fight profiling

Recommended reading

• Terrorism Directive: Document pool (24.11.2016)
• A disappointing TTIP human rights assessment
• Watch: Do Not Track - a personalized documentary series about privacy and the web economy
• New counter-terror powers coming after hasty, secret negotiations on EU Directive completed

Recommended action

• Clickclickclick!

  Click the button? Check out how easy it is to track you!
  https://clickclickclick.click/

Agenda

• 26.12.2016 33C3 – the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 24.01.2017 Privacy Camp 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.01.2017 CPDP 2017: The age of intelligent machines

  Brussels, Belgium

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

• 24.03.2017 EDRi General Assembly

  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

From edri.org

• State of emergency worsens digital crackdown in Turkey
• GFF launches its strategic litigation for civil rights
• New EU network to combat the “challenges stemming from encryption”
• Dutch government wants to keep zero days available for exploitation
• EU Copyright Directive – privatised censorship
• EU copyright reform proposal discussed in Romania
• How to fight weapons of math destruction*

Recommended reading

• Strategy for limiting online freedoms, innovation, and access to knowledge (15.11.2016)
• How We Broke Democracy (but not in the way you think)
• The Belgian PNR proposal (only in French and Flemish)

Recommended action

• Support your privacy and security online!

  Big companies plan to water down European privacy rules. We need your help to fight for your rights!
  https://edri.org/campaign/support-digital-rights-europe/

Agenda

• 25.11.2016 32nd annual FIfF conference: in.visible systems – hidden information technology cannot be discussed

  Berlin, Germany

• 26.12.2016 33C3 – the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 24.01.2017 Privacy Camp 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.01.2017 CPDP 2017: The age of intelligent machines

  Brussels, Belgium

• 08.03.2017 Internet Freedom Festival 2017

  Valencia, Spain

• 15.03.2017 G20 Consumer Summit – Building a digital world that consumers can trust

  Berlin, Germany

From edri.org

• Follow the money – following some positive paths
• CETA signature ignores Agreement’s flaws
• FAQ: EU Code of Conduct on illegal hate speech
• Freedom to make mistakes: How to defend yourself from abuses
• From Warsaw to London: United to #fixcopyright
• The Copyright Reform - a guide for the perplexed
• We are looking for a Community Manager

Recommended reading

• Protecting free speech in the digital age: Q&A with UN special rapporteur for freedom of expression (11.10.2016)
• Privacy group launches legal challenge against EU-US data pact (27.10.2016)
• Google's quiet, confusing privacy policy change is why we need more transparency & control (26.10.2016)
• Electronic Signatures in Law (4th edition, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies for the SAS Humanities Digital Library, School of Advanced Study, university of London, 2016)
• MEP Schaake unconvincingly defends ISDS in CETA
• Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating terrorism and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism - Follow up of the third trilogue of 28 September 2016

Recommended action

• Send the Digital Defenders around Europe!

  We've created a free, CC-licensed kids' booklet about privacy: "Your guide to the Digital Defenders". Support us to translate, print and distribute it at schools!
  https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/digital-defenders-privacy-guide-for-kids

• I spy with my 5 eyes

  Watch a documentary that reveals how the Five Eyes Alliance, the largest surveillance program in human history, impacts our lives.
  http://ispydoc.com/

Agenda

• 07.11.2016 Algorithmic accountability and transparency

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.11.2016 Dutch Big Brother Awards 2016

  Amsterdam. the Netherlands

• 15.11.2016 EUhackathon #EUh2016

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.11.2016 32nd annual FIfF conference: in.visible systems – hidden information technology cannot be discussed

  Berlin, Germany

• 26.12.2016 33C3 – the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 24.01.2017 Privacy Camp 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• “Follow the money” on copyright infringements
• EDRi’s privacy for kids booklet: Your guide to the Digital Defenders
• Orange is the new blacklist
• Shadow regulations - unfair and undemocratic
• Censorship in Italy: Child protection is the excuse again
• Corporate-sponsored privacy confusion on trade and data protection
• Freedom to have secrets: How to keep your information private
• ENDitorial: Commissioner defends nuclear attack on internet freedom

Recommended reading

• National Courts and EU Trade Policy Powers: the EU/Canada trade deal and the German Constitutional Court (18.10.2016)
• How the Soviets invented the internet and why it didn't work

Recommended action

• Support your privacy and security online!

  Big companies plan to water down European privacy rules. We need your help to fight for your rights!
  https://edri.org/campaign/support-digital-rights-europe/

Agenda

• 20.10.2016 re:publica 2016 #rbDUB

  Dublin, Ireland

• 20.10.2016 EU Action for Whistleblower Protection

  Brussels, Belgium

• 27.10.2016 CopyCamp 2016 – Future of Copyright in Europe

  Warsaw, Poland

• 28.10.2016 MozFest 2016

  London, United Kingdom

• 07.11.2016 Algorithmic accountability and transparency

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.11.2016 Dutch Big Brother Awards 2016

  Amsterdam. the Netherlands

From edri.org

• Eight challenges of opening the web
• The curious tale of the French prime minister and PNR
• CETA puts the protection of our privacy and personal data at risk
• Freedom to be different: How to defend yourself against tracking
• e-Privacy Directive: Frequently Asked Questions
• Social media as censors of public sphere: YouTube vs. Ombudsman
• The GS Media case: An attack on the world wide web
• ENDitorial: It is possible that Netflix is legal in Ireland - or not

Recommended reading

• Networks of Control: a report on corporate surveillance, digital tracking, Big Data & privacy
• Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem
• EPIC: The Privacy Law Sourcebook 2016
• Vrijschrift: EU-Canada trade agreement CETA will undermine protection of personal data
• How we saved the Internet in Europe (04.10.2016)
• Google Is Going to Speed Up the Web. Is This Good?

Recommended action

• Delete your Yahoo account!

  Yahoo allegedly secretly searched all of its customers' incoming emails, complying with a demand by US government. Time to delete your account?
  https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-to-delete-your-my-yahoo-account-secret-spying-software-surveillance-2016-10

Agenda

• 06.10.2016 Big Brother Awards Belgium

  Brussels, Belgium

• 07.10.2016 3rd “Das ist Netzpolitik!” conference 2016

  Berlin, Germany

• 14.10.2016 Freedom Not Fear 2016

  Brussels, Belgium

• 15.10.2016 EU Codeweek

  everywhere

• 18.10.2016 Generation Code: Born at the Library

  Brussels, Belgium

• 20.10.2016 EU Action for Whistleblower Protection

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Privacy: Your privacy, security and freedom are in danger
• TiSA leaks set alarm bells ringing
• New copyright directive fails at every level
• EU is now giving Google new monopolies
• Joint Referral Platform: no proof of diligent approach to terrorism
• Privacy Training Center empowers you to protect your online freedom
• Member Spotlight: Electronic Frontier Finland
• Commission’s proposal for a new Regulation on dual use-goods
• EDRi invites you to the Big Brother Awards Belgium
• ENDitorial: "Hate speech": Who's the German for hypocrisy

Recommended reading

• The Geographical Scope of Application of the EU Right to be Delisted
• The cryptographic key that secures the web is being changed for the first time
• Indian Court Says 'Copyright Is Not An Inevitable, Divine, Or Natural Right'

Recommended action

• Stand up for Snowden!

  Sign the letter and urge President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before leaving office. Time is running out.
  
  https://www.pardonsnowden.org/

Agenda

• 28.09.2016 Ancillary copyright event

  Brussels, Belgium

• 29.09.2016 EDPS-BEUC Conference on Big Data: individual rights and smart enforcement

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.10.2016 Data Protection Impact Assessments: Examining the challenges

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2016 Big Brother Awards Belgium

  Brussels, Belgium

• 07.10.2016 3rd “Das ist Netzpolitik!” conference 2016

  Berlin, Germany

• 14.10.2016 Freedom Not Fear 2016

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• What digital rights are at imminent risk? All of them.
• Finnish Big Brother Award goes to intrusive loyalty card programme
• Towards a corporate copyright reform in the EU?
• New documents reveal the truth behind the Hate Speech Code
• Secret Report: German intelligence service BND breaks the law
• The lobby-tomy 9: Lessons of the lobby
• Member Spotlight: Iuridicum Remedium
• ENDitorial: "When crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto"

Recommended reading

• Commission staff working document: Impact Assessment on the modernisation of EU copyright rules
• Facebook algorithmic factory
• SUPER KAT-EXCLUSIVE: Here's draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market (31.08.2016)

Recommended action

• Data protection for the US elections 2016!

  Check out EPIC's (Electronic Privacy Information Center) platform to raise awareness on privacy issues among voters in the US elections 2016!
  http://www.dataprotection2016.org/

Agenda

• 08.09.2016 Copyright reform: Unlocking copyright for users?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.09.2016 15 years of the war on terror – Freedom Not Fear Day in Poland

  Warsaw, Poland

• 28.09.2016 Ancillary copyright event

  Brussels, Belgium

• 29.09.2016 EDPS-BEUC Conference on Big Data: individual rights and smart enforcement

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.10.2016 Data Protection Impact Assessments: Examining the challenges

  Brussels, Belgium

• 06.10.2016 Big Brother Awards Belgium

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EDRi welcomes its Open Web Fellow
• New documents reveal Europol's plans to increase surveillance
• France and Germany: Fighting terrorism by weakening encryption
• Freedom not Fear 2016: 14–17 October in Brussels
• Romania: Mass surveillance project disguised as eGovernment

Recommended reading

• Summary report on the public consultation on the Evaluation and Review of the ePrivacy Directive (04.08.2016)
• Who's signing up for Privacy Shield? (02.08.2016)
• Chicago’s experimental policing tool is hurting the people it’s supposed to be helping (17.08.2016)

Recommended action

• Report offline surveillance online!

  Add cameras or guards near you to "Surveillance under Surveillance" maps.
  https://kamba4.crux.uberspace.de

Agenda

• 31.08.2016 MyData 2016

  Helsinki, Finland

• 02.09.2016 FSFE summit 2016

  Berlin, Germany

• 08.09.2016 Copyright reform: Unlocking copyright for users?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.09.2016 15 years of the war on terror – Freedom Not Fear Day in Poland

  Warsaw, Poland

• 28.09.2016 Ancillary copyright event

  Brussels, Belgium

• 29.09.2016 EDPS-BEUC Conference on Big Data: individual rights and smart enforcement

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Turkey: “The worst menace to society” helps to defeat the coup
• More Copyfails or meaningful improvements?
• EU Ombudsman demands trilogue reform, following our advice
• Citizens sent a clear and loud message: We want an open internet!
• Massive lobby against personal communications security has started
• The lobby-tomy 8: “Anti-fraud” - another magic word
• German surveillance laws: placebos, poison, and also bad sport
• ENDitorial: Is 5G as terrible as the telecoms providers claim it is?

Recommended reading

• Trade and privacy: Complicated bedfellows? - How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements (13.07.2016)
• Advocate General's Opinion on a case Tele2 Sverige AB v Post- och telestyrelsen (C-203/15) (19.07.2016)
• Nonagenarian model citizen wants secret surveillance data on him deleted (26.07.2016)
• Privacy International’s contribution to the EU Commission consultation on the review of the e-Privacy Directive (2002/58/EC)

Recommended action

• Support our work!

  EDRi needs your support to defend your rights and freedoms, to keep our network and the Brussels office running.
  https://edri.org/donate/

Agenda

• 31.08.2016 MyData 2016

  Helsinki, Finland

• 02.09.2016 FSFE summit 2016

  Berlin, Germany

• 08.09.2016 Copyright reform: Unlocking copyright for users?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.09.2016 15 years of the war on terror – Freedom Not Fear Day in Poland

  Warsaw, Poland

• 28.09.2016 Ancillary copyright event

  Brussels, Belgium

• 29.09.2016 EDPS-BEUC Conference on Big Data: individual rights and smart enforcement

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Algorithms – censorship à la carte?
• Privacy Shield: Privacy sham
• Dutch parliament votes against internet filter
• Oversight of the new Europol regulation likely to remain superficial
• Rush to “fight terrorism” threatens our fundamental rights
• UEFA: 1, Right to remix: 0 - Viral video gets blocked
• Telcos & Commission attack net neutrality and BEREC's independence
• Three steps to end freedom of expression

Recommended reading

• UPC and ISDS: who would have to pay the damages awards? (01.07.2016)
• Anonymization and the Law (11.07.2016)
• EU: European Commission’s Code of Conduct for Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online and the Framework Decision (20.06.2016)
• Sweden: The weakest link in EU net neutrality reform?

Recommended action

• Final call to Save the Internet!

  EU telecom regulators are finalising their net neutrality guidelines. You have until 18 July to respond to the public consultation, to send your message to support a free, innovative, and open internet!
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

Agenda

• 12.07.2016 #NetCompetition Forum – How to deliver broadband deployment and consumer welfare for Europe?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 31.08.2016 MyData 2016

  Helsinki, Finland

• 02.09.2016 FSFE summit 2016

  Berlin, Germany

• 08.09.2016 Copyright reform: Unlocking copyright for users?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.09.2016 15 years of the war on terror – Freedom Not Fear Day in Poland

  Warsaw, Poland

• 28.09.2016 Ancillary copyright event

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• How digital rights in the UK will be affected by Brexit
• Advocate General: E-lending must be included to the lending rights
• Is your internet provider discriminating against your favourite app?
• A new Regulation for closing down the internet in Turkey
• Following the money – easy to say, hard to do
• Poland adopted a controversial anti-terrorism law

Recommended reading

• Smile, you’re in the FBI face-recognition database (18.06.2016)
• Irish data protection case "of the utmost importance" to US (27.06.2016)
• How do we achieve an open, secure, trustworthy, and inclusive internet? (21.06.2016)

Recommended action

• Have your say on the net neutrality guidelines!

  Help the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) to finalise their guidelines on net neutrality! Go to SaveTheInternet.eu and send a message to support a free, innovative open internet. The consultation is open until 18 July.
  http://berec.europa.eu/eng/news_consultations/ongoing_public_consultations/3771-public-consultation-on-draft-berec-guidelines-on-implementation-of-net-neutrality-rules

Agenda

• 29.06.2016 European Data Forum 2016

  Eindhoven, the Netherlands

• 12.07.2016 #NetCompetition Forum – How to deliver broadband deployment and consumer welfare for Europe?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 31.08.2016 MyData 2016

  Helsinki, Finland

• 02.09.2016 FSFE summit 2016

  Berlin, Germany

• 08.09.2016 Copyright reform: Unlocking copyright for users?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.09.2016 15 years of the war on terror – Freedom Not Fear Day in Poland

  Warsaw, Poland

From edri.org

• Swiss civil society struggles against digital surveillance laws
• CoE study: Blocking content has to respect fundamental rights
• OECD Civil Society Forum: Towards a fair digital economy
• It's time to save the internet!
• BEUC and EDRi urge the Commission not to undermine citizens’ privacy
• Is your internet provider restricting your internet traffic?
• Mobilisation for digital rights

Recommended reading

• Now Poland’s government is coming after the internet (10.06.2016)
• US government wants to be joined in Schrems case (13.06.2016)
• Why Privacy is more than Crypto (31.05.2016)

Recommended action

• Save the Internet!

  European Regulators are about to decide whether to give big telecoms corporations the power to influence what we can (and can’t) do online. We have until July to help Europe protect the open Internet.
  https://savetheinternet.eu/en/

• Support Digital Rights in Europe!

  European Digital Rights fights for your right to privacy, freedom of expression, modernisation of copyright rules, legal protection for net neutrality and against new European proposals for mass surveillance. Our work is only possible with the continued financial support of donors like you!
  https://edri.org/supporters/

Agenda

• 16.06.2016 Privatising the rule of law online: Freedom of speech, copyright and platforms in the digital single market

  Brussels, Belgium

• 20.06.2016 Fundamental Rights Forum

  Vienna, Austria

• 20.06.2016 BEUC Digiforum 2016

  Brussels, Belgium

• 29.06.2016 European Data Forum 2016

  Eindhoven, the Netherlands

• 12.07.2016 #NetCompetition Forum – How to deliver broadband deployment and consumer welfare for Europe?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 31.08.2016 MyData 2016

  Helsinki, Finland

From edri.org

• Sweden: Yet more surveillance or evidence-based decision-making?
• Make-or-break summer for EU Net Neutrality - First stop: Vienna
• Czech Republic: Non-transparent processing of sensitive health data
• EU Commission under investigation for EU Internet Forum documents
• Copyfails: Time to #fixcopyright!
• The lobby-tomy 7: Not all roads lead to privacy
• EDRi and Access Now withdraw from the IT Forum discussions

Recommended reading

• EDPS: Opinion on the EU-US Privacy Shield - draft adequacy decision (30.05.2016)
• How the Internet works: Submarine fibre, brains in jars, and coaxial cables (24.05.2016)

Recommended action

• Ready to #fixcopyright?

  The EU Copyright framework is a failure for citizens and for creators. The upcoming copyright reform gives the opportunity to fix this. Follow the Copyfails campaign on our website and using the hashtag #fixcopyright on Twitter! Let's bring copyright to the 21st century!
  https://edri.org/copyfails/

• Save the Internet!

  Join the public demonstration in Vienna to urge BEREC to adopt a strong, unambiguous interpretation of the net neutrality Regulation.
  https://netzfreiheit.org/demonstration-fuer-ein-freies-offenes-internet-und-den-erhalt-der-netzneutralitaet-am-3-juni-1730-in-wien/

Agenda

• 16.06.2016 Privatising the rule of law online: Freedom of speech, copyright and platforms in the digital single market

  Brussels, Belgium

• 20.06.2016 Fundamental Rights Forum

  Vienna, Austria

• 20.06.2016 BEUC Digiforum 2016

  Brussels, Belgium

• 29.06.2016 European Data Forum 2016

  Eindhoven, the Netherlands

• 12.07.2016 #NetCompetition Forum – How to deliver broadband deployment and consumer welfare for Europe?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 31.08.2016 MyData 2016

  Helsinki, Finland

From edri.org

• Danish ticketing system a threat to privacy
• Big Brother Awards Germany 2016
• Looking back through the French anti-terror arsenal
• Europol: Non-transparent cooperation with IT companies
• EC wants to add facial recognition to transnational databases
• Hungary: New government proposals raise concerns
• Advocate General: Dynamic IP address can be personal data
• Dutch government prohibits price discrimination for internet access
• ENDitorial: Next year, you’ll complain about the Terrorism Directive

Recommended reading

• Even basic phone logs can reveal deeply personal information, researchers find (16.05.2016)
• Snowden Archive - The SidToday Files
• European Digital Rights at re:publica 2016
• Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?
• User Content Platforms Take the Heat for Artists' Struggles at WIPO

Recommended action

• Save the Internet!

  Europe urgently needs clear net neutrality guidelines to protect our freedoms and rights online. We have until July to help Europe protect the open Internet. Take action now!
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

Agenda

• 26.05.2016 OFE Round Table – The Blockchain Revolution

  Brussels, Belgium

• 31.05.2016 Privacy Platform – Cracking the code: how to balance data security with public security

  Brussels, Belgium

• 16.06.2016 Privatising the rule of law online: Freedom of speech, copyright and platforms in the digital single market

  Brussels, Belgium

• 20.06.2016 Fundamental Rights Forum

  Vienna, Austria

• 20.06.2016 BEUC Digiforum 2016

  Brussels, Belgium

• 29.06.2016 European Data Forum 2016

  Eindhoven, the Netherlands

From edri.org

• Dutch dragnet surveillance bill leaked
• TTIP leaks confirm dangers for digital rights
• The lobby-tomy 6: Not in my backyard
• EUIPO publishes final report about ”Youth and Intellectual Property”
• Please sue us
• CETA will undermine EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
• EU Trade Secrets Directive: A sad day for the freedom of expression

Recommended reading

• Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use (27.05.2016)
• Data Protection Regulation (04.05.2016)
• The Crime of Speech (28.04.2016)
• New Polish Anti-terrorism Law: every foreigner is a potential threat (28.04.2016)
• CETA: ISDS and data protection (29.05.2016)
• ECHR: Serious harm jurisdictional threshold must be respected (04.05.2016)
• ECtHR: Free Expression and Data Protection must be balanced (15.04.2016)
• ECtHR: Bulk interception powers violate freedom of expression (14.03.2016)
• European Court of Human Rights: Kahdija Ismayilova v Azerbaijan

Recommended action

• Respect my Net

  Report cases of Net Neutrality violations: zero-rating, specialised services, or the blocking, throttling or prioritisation of online services!
  https://respectmynet.eu/

• Save The Internet

  Have your say on why REAL Net Neutrality matters. Send a message to your national regulator to protect net neutrality!
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

Agenda

• 11.05.2016 ALTER-EU Lobby Tour

  Brussels, Belgium

• 26.05.2016 OFE Round Table – The Blockchain Revolution

  Brussels, Belgium

• 31.05.2016 Privacy Platform – Cracking the code: how to balance data security with public security

  Brussels, Belgium

• 16.06.2016 Privatising the rule of law online: Freedom of speech, copyright and platforms in the digital single market

  Brussels, Belgium

• 20.06.2016 BEUC Digiforum 2016

  Brussels, Belgium

• 20.06.2016 Fundamental Rights Forum

  Vienna, Austria

From edri.org

• Member Spotlight: Access Now
• Countering terrorism, a.k.a. the biggest human rights threat of 2016
• New data protection law in Turkey
• Huge protest against corruption & surveillance in Macedonia
• The biggest data breach in Turkish history
• The lobby-tomy 5: legal help or political choices?
• Trilogues: the system that undermines EU democracy and transparency
• DFRI thrown out of conference on surveillance cameras

Recommended reading

• Report: Case Study on ICT and Human Rights
• Macedonia: Society on Tap
• A conversation with Jasna Koteska on state relations and surveillance in Macedonia
• Reflection on the Review of the ePrivacy Directive workshop
• The secret rules of the internet. The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech
• Investor-State dispute settlement undermines rule of law and democracy, UN expert tells Council of Europe
• Decision to prosecute satirist in Germany worrying, OSCE media freedom representative says, reiterating call to decriminalize defamation
• The Trade Secrets Directive: What it does – and does not – mean

Recommended action

• Save the Internet

  The EU Regulation contains good principles to ensure that you can connect to any other point on the net without discrimination. However, some parts of the regulation could be abused to undermine net neutrality. The legislators decided to leave the responsibility for claryifing the uncertainties of the text to the telecoms regulators.
  https://savetheinternet.eu/en/

• Report net neutrality violations to "Respect My Net"

  "Internet users should be in charge of their Internet connections. Instead, however, Internet access providers increasingly undermine this expectation and limit our online communications and behaviour. They do this, for example, by blocking or restricting access to certain kinds of online services, content and applications. The “Respect My Net” platform will allow individuals to report such abusive behaviour by Internet access providers."
  http://respectmynet.eu/

Agenda

• 20.04.2016 The 7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

  Barcelona, Spain

• 21.04.2016 Surveillance: Power, Performance and Trust – 7th biennial Surveillance & Society conference

  Barcelona, Spain

• 02.05.2016 re:publica 2016

  Station Berlin

• 11.05.2016 ALTER-EU Lobby Tour

  Brussels, Belgium

• 26.05.2016 OFE Round Table – The Blockchain Revolution

  Brussels, Belgium

• 31.05.2016 Privacy Platform – Cracking the code: how to balance data security with public security

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• CJEU hearing on the EU Canada PNR agreement: Still shady
• Intelligence organisations get more surveillance powers in Romania
• Opt me out of location - campaign and report against mobile tracking
• Commission launches consultations on ancillary copyright and panorama
• Swedish Supreme Court rules against Freedom of Panorama
• The lobby-tomy 4: Innovation is the magic word
• Final consultation to save the open Internet in Europe
• OnlineCensorship.org launches first report

Recommended reading

• Recommended reading: Study shows terrorists rarely use the "dark net"
• The Transparency Reporting Toolkit: Best Practices for Reporting on U.S. Government Requests for User Information
• Statewatch: Putting the PNR pieces in place: more EU funding for mass surveillance
• WhatsApp encryption: App can still store information about who people talk to and when
• Scoping Electronic Communication Privacy Rules: Data, Services and Values

Recommended action

• EU consultation on “Intellectual Property Rights” enforcement – Have your say!

  EDRi's tool to assist citizens to respond to the public consultation on the evaluation and modernisation of the legal framework for the enforcement of “intellectual property rights” (IPR).
  This consultation covers how companies should or should not interfere with your communications online - for example by removing your online content in case it might include copyrighted material.
  The deadline to submit responses using this tool is 10 April. However, you can use the Commission's tool to respond until 15 April 2016.
  
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu

• Save the Internet

  The EU Regulation contains good principles to ensure that you can connect to any other point on the net without discrimination. However, some parts of the regulation could be abused to undermine net neutrality. The legislators decided to leave the responsibility for claryifing the uncertainties of the text to the telecoms regulators.
  https://savetheinternet.eu/en/

• Report net neutrality violations to "Respect My Net"

  "Internet users should be in charge of their Internet connections. Instead, however, Internet access providers increasingly undermine this expectation and limit our online communications and behaviour. They do this, for example, by blocking or restricting access to certain kinds of online services, content and applications. The “Respect My Net” platform will allow individuals to report such abusive behaviour by Internet access providers."
  http://respectmynet.eu/

Agenda

• 08.04.2016 International Journalism Festival

  Perugia, Italy

• 20.04.2016 The 7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

  Barcelona, Spain

• 21.04.2016 Surveillance: Power, Performance and Trust – 7th biennial Surveillance & Society conference

  Barcelona, Spain

• 02.05.2016 re:publica 2016

  Station Berlin

• 11.05.2016 ALTER-EU Lobby Tour

  Brussels, Belgium

• 26.05.2016 OFE Round Table – The Blockchain Revolution

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EDRi's input on violent extremism for UN Human Rights Commissioner
• Lots to like in Advocate General’s opinion on free WiFi & copyright
• Loopholes creeping into the Italian proposal on net neutrality
• EPIC Intervenes in Privacy Case at European Court of Human Right
• Danish government postpones plans to re-introduce session logging
• Data protection bill in Turkish Parliament
• The lobby-tomy 3: who are lobbying?

Recommended reading

• Encryption - a matter of human rights
• CETA: Who pulled the plug on the right to regulate?
• Guidance Security Measures for Personal Data Processing Article 22 of Regulation 45/2001
• Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring
• ECtHR: Bulk interception powers violate freedom of expression

Recommended action

• Report net neutrality violations to "Respect My Net"

  "Internet users should be in charge of their Internet connections. Instead, however, Internet access providers increasingly undermine this expectation and limit our online communications and behaviour. They do this, for example, by blocking or restricting access to certain kinds of online services, content and applications. The “Respect My Net” platform will allow individuals to report such abusive behaviour by Internet access providers."
  http://respectmynet.eu/

• EU consultation on “Intellectual Property Rights” enforcement – Have your say!

  EDRi's tool to assist citizens to respond to the public consultation on the evaluation and modernisation of the legal framework for the enforcement of “intellectual property rights” (IPR). The deadline to submit responses using this tool is 7 April. However, you can use the Commission's tool to respond until 15 April 2016.
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu

Agenda

• 30.03.2016 RightsCon

  San Francisco, California, United States

• 30.03.2016 Crypto Summit 2.0

  San Francisco, California, United States

• 08.04.2016 International Journalism Festival

  Perugia, Italy

• 20.04.2016 The 7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

  Barcelona, Spain

• 21.04.2016 Surveillance: Power, Performance and Trust – 7th biennial Surveillance & Society conference

  Barcelona, Spain

• 02.05.2016 re:publica 2016

  Station Berlin

From edri.org

• The lobby-tomy 2: What was the lobbying about?
• Italy, net neutrality law proposal under consideration
• Do privacy and the open Internet cause gambling debt in Sweden?
• Joint civil society statement on counter-terrorism and human rights
• UK's mass surveillance law being rushed through legislative process
• ENDitorial: PNR - political finger-pointing, no viable legislation
• ENDitorial: Is “privacy” still relevant in a world of bastard data?

Recommended reading

• Why the US Judicial Redress Act is worthless
• EU commission goes into denial mode regarding effect ISDS on software patents
• Publication of Error 451 as an RFC
• The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
• Facebook is eating the world
• The Case That Won't Be Forgotten
• First report of the UN Special Rapporteur on privacy (.doc)

Recommended action

• Report net neutrality violations to "Respect My Net"

  "Internet users should be in charge of their Internet connections. Instead, however, Internet access providers increasingly undermine this expectation and limit our online communications and behaviour. They do this, for example, by blocking or restricting access to certain kinds of online services, content and applications. The “Respect My Net” platform will allow individuals to report such abusive behaviour by Internet access providers."
  http://respectmynet.eu/

• Mozilla’s Open Web Fellowship 2016: Join EDRi’s team!

  "The Open Web Fellows program — a collaboration between the Ford Foundation and Mozilla — is an international leadership initiative that brings together the best emerging technology talent and civil society organizations to protect the open Web."
  Applications will close on 20 March – watch Mozilla’s website for updates.
  https://advocacy.mozilla.org/open-web-fellows/

• Public consultation on the public-private partnership on cybersecurity and possible accompanying measures

  "The European Commission seeks stakeholders' views on the areas of work of the future cybersecurity public-private partnership as well as on potential additional policy measures that could stimulate the European cybersecurity industry. The consultation is open until 11 March 2016."
  https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/public-consultation-public-private-partnership-cybersecurity-and-possible-accompanying-measures

• EU consultation on “Intellectual Property Rights” enforcement – Have your say!

  EDRi's tool to assist citizens to respond to the public consultation on the evaluation and modernisation of the legal framework for the enforcement of “intellectual property rights” (IPR). The deadline to submit responses using this tool is 7 April. However, you can use the Commission's tool to respond until 15 April 2016.
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/limesurvey/index.php/829127?lang=en

Agenda

• 11.03.2016 The Logan CIJ Symposium – Challenge Power! Building alliances against secrecy, surveillance & censorship.

  Berlin Congress Center, Berlin

• 22.03.2016 Screening: A Good American

  Brussels

• 30.03.2016 RightsCon

  San Francisco, California, United States

• 30.03.2016 Crypto Summit 2.0

  San Francisco, California, United States

• 08.04.2016 International Journalism Festival

  Perugia, Italy

• 20.04.2016 The 7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

  Barcelona, Spain

From edri.org

• The tales of Facebook’s jurisdiction: Nudes, Cookies and Schrems
• Transparent consumers – a report by Bits of Freedom
• Data Protection Reform - Next stop: e-Privacy Directive
• Possible Voters’ Registry Breach raise Privacy Issues in Macedonia
• Data Protection Lobbyotomy Part 1: Influencing the Dutch government
• 2015 Internet Report on Turkey released
• EU consultation on IPR enforcement – Have your say!

Recommended reading

• The zombie ISDS rebranded as ICS, rights for corporations to sue states refuse to die (17.02.2016)
• Several leading NGOs, including EDRI-member Metamorphosis, issued a brief analysis of the overall election-related situation, including a conclusion that the state institutions are not ready to conduct democratic elections. This includes the aspect of "cleaning" the Voters' Registry by comparing databases from various institutions.
• Czech police, Mattel, ministry win mock Big Brother Awards (18.02.2016)
• Health and fitness apps share user data with partners and advertisers (23.02.2016)

Recommended action

• Public consultation on the public-private partnership on cybersecurity and possible accompanying measures

  "The European Commission seeks stakeholders' views on the areas of work of the future cybersecurity public-private partnership as well as on potential additional policy measures that could stimulate the European cybersecurity industry. The consultation is open until 11 March 2016."
  https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/public-consultation-public-private-partnership-cybersecurity-and-possible-accompanying-measures

• EU consultation on “Intellectual Property Rights” enforcement – Have your say!

  EDRi's tool to assist citizens to respond to the public consultation on the evaluation and modernisation of the legal framework for the enforcement of “intellectual property rights” (IPR). The deadline to submit responses using this tool is 7 April. However, you can use the Commission's tool to respond until 15 April 2016.
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/limesurvey/index.php/829127?lang=en

• #appfail

  "When you use apps you often need to let go of basic consumer rights. Join us in saying that this is not okay!"
  http://www.forbrukerradet.no/appfail-en

Agenda

• 25.02.2016 Living On The Edge 5: Fail # unFail

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.03.2016 Blockchain: regulatory technology or technology to regulate?

  Brussels

• 03.03.2016 Internet Freedom Festival

  Valencia, Spain

• 03.03.2016 Civil Society 4.0 – Refugees and Digital Self Organization

  Berlin

• 11.03.2016 The Logan CIJ Symposium – Challenge Power! Building alliances against secrecy, surveillance & censorship.

  Berlin Congress Center, Berlin

• 22.03.2016 Screening: A Good American

  Brussels

From edri.org

• Holland and India prohibit zero-rating: the first of many?
• MTE v. Hungary: the ECtHR rules again on intermediary liability
• David Kaye calls on companies to defend freedom of expression
• Romanian cybersecurity law reloaded
• TiSA resolution: what are you going to do about it?
• What’s behind the shield? Unspinning the “privacy shield” spin

Recommended reading

• Trade in Services Agreement - EDRi’s position
• EDRi co-hosts the Privacy Camp, 26 January 2016
• French data privacy regulator cracks down on Facebook
• TRAI says no to Facebook’s Free Basics, supports net neutrality

Recommended action

• Public consultation on the public-private partnership on cybersecurity and possible accompanying measures

  https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/public-consultation-public-private-partnership-cybersecurity-and-possible-accompanying-measures

Agenda

• 22.02.2016 Civil society EU-wide meeting on CETA and TTIP

  Brussels

• 25.02.2016 Living On The Edge 5: Fail # unFail

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.03.2016 Blockchain: regulatory technology or technology to regulate?

  Brussels

• 03.03.2016 Internet Freedom Festival

  Valencia, Spain

• 03.03.2016 Civil Society 4.0 – Refugees and Digital Self Organization

  Berlin

• 11.03.2016 The Logan CIJ Symposium – Challenge Power! Building alliances against secrecy, surveillance & censorship.

  Berlin Congress Center, Berlin

From edri.org

• TiSA: European Parliament ready to defend digital rights?
• ECHR decision on workplace surveillance
• Member Spotlight: Bits Of Freedom
• Italian Constitutional Court avoids decision on blocking
• Academics under attack in Turkey
• ENDitorial: Progress for encryption & rule of law

Recommended reading

• James Bamford: The Espionage Economy - U.S. firms are making billions selling spyware to dictators.
• Access Now, EDRi on data protection: “No Safe Harbour 2.0 without reform on both sides of the Atlantic”
• EPIC v. DOJ: EPIC Prevails, DOJ Releases Secret EU-US Umbrella Agreement

Recommended action

• Mozilla’s Open Web Fellowship 2016: Join EDRi’s team!

  "The Open Web Fellows program — a collaboration between the Ford Foundation and Mozilla — is an international leadership initiative that brings together the best emerging technology talent and civil society organizations to protect the open Web."
  
  Applications will open on 1 February and close on 20 March – watch Mozilla’s website for updates.
  https://advocacy.mozilla.org/open-web-fellows/

• Say no to government surveillance of your travels!

  Access Now has launched a campaign that enables you to easily submit a "boarding pass" to members of the EU parliament urging them to say “No” to the EU PNR Directive.
  https://act.accessnow.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1921&ea.campaign.id=46765&ea.tracking.id=tile

Agenda

• 04.02.2016 FOSDEM 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 22.02.2016 Civil society EU-wide meeting on CETA and TTIP

  Brussels

• 25.02.2016 Living On The Edge 5: Fail # unFail

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.03.2016 Blockchain: regulatory technology or technology to regulate?

  Brussels

• 03.03.2016 Internet Freedom Festival

  Valencia, Spain

• 03.03.2016 Civil Society 4.0 – Refugees and Digital Self Organization

  Berlin

From edri.org

• EDRi's first input on net neutrality guidelines
• Dutch government says no to weakening encryption
• EDRi's submission to the “Platforms consultation”
• India: Free Basics violates principles of a neutral Internet
• Case Closed: Ombudsman decides GCHQ letters are of public interest
• Journalistic plagiarism not covered under Google's right to erasure
• Swedish border control becomes a privacy nightmare for travellers
• Chaos Communication Congress 2015

Recommended reading

• Vuvuzela Messenger: „If there is an arms race, I think we’ll lose if we don’t focus on usability“
• John Legere: Who the fuck are you, EFF?

Recommended action

• Sign the petition "Security for all"

  Led by our member "Access Now" the petition "Security for all" was launched on Monday, accompanying an open letter to the world's governments. The petition can be signed by organizations, individuals and companies.
  https://www.securetheinternet.org/

• Register for Pre-CPDP Privacy Camp

  Registration for Privacy Camp 2016 is open until the 22 January 2016.
  The event is free to attend but pre-registration is required as space is limited. Please RSVP to Imge.Ozcan@vub.ac.be.
  Please note that priority will be given to members of NGOs and civil rights
  http://privacycamp.eu/2015/12/08/registration-is-open/

Agenda

• 26.01.2016 Pre-CPDP Privacy Camp – The multiple ways of (de/self-) regulation: What is at stake for human rights?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.02.2016 FOSDEM 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 22.02.2016 Civil society EU-wide meeting on CETA and TTIP

  Brussels

• 25.02.2016 Living On The Edge 5: Fail # unFail

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.03.2016 Blockchain: regulatory technology or technology to regulate?

  Brussels

• 03.03.2016 Civil Society 4.0 – Refugees and Digital Self Organization

  Berlin

From edri.org

• Data protection package concluded – 1420 days after being launched
• German Supreme Court rules in favor of blocking websites
• OnlineCensorship.org documents content takedowns by companies
• EU encourages cooperation between intelligence agencies
• Copyright reform: Restoring the facade of a decrepit building
• Net neutrality - now it is the regulators' turn to bring clarity
• EU Parliamentarians make statement on the Digital Single Market
• Will the European Parliament ask court whether ISDS is legal?

Recommended reading

• Metadata Investigation: Inside Hacking Team (29.10.2015)
• EDRi: FAQ: Passenger Name Records (PNR)
• TiSA Resolution: document pool
• Video on copyright levies
• How Smart Is "Smart Security"? Exploring Data Subjectivity and Resistance
• Report on how the EU assesses the impact, legitimacy and effectiveness of its counter-terrorism laws
• Copyright laws don't work in the digital age (09.12.2015)
• EDPS statement on PNR (10.12.2015)

Recommended action

• EDRi's tool for the platforms consultation

  Your internet. Your rights. Your one chance to affect future internet regulation. Join the consultation on the role of Internet platforms and intermediaries until 24 December 2015!
  http://edri.limequery.org/index.php/346935/lang-en

• Job opening at Bits of Freedom

  Bits of Freedom is looking for a Dutch speaking experienced legal professional to help them fight for a free internet.
  https://www.bof.nl/2015/12/14/bits-of-freedom-zoekt-gepassioneerde-en-ervaren-jurist/

Agenda

• 27.12.2015 32C3 – the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 26.01.2016 Pre-CPDP Privacy Camp – The multiple ways of (de/self-) regulation: What is at stake for human rights?

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.02.2016 FOSDEM 2017

  Brussels, Belgium

• 22.02.2016 Civil society EU-wide meeting on CETA and TTIP

  Brussels

• 25.02.2016 Living On The Edge 5: Fail # unFail

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.03.2016 Blockchain: regulatory technology or technology to regulate?

  Brussels

From edri.org

• EDPS Opinion: Effective data protection needed for "big data"
• FOIA request confirms data protection is not a barrier to trade
• EU Council on Data Retention: “Can we please just have it back?”
• France enacts sweeping legislation limiting fundamental freedoms
• EDRi represented at the AU-EU Civil Society Seminar on Human Rights
• The Popcorn Time whack a mole continues
• ENDitorial: After Paris – selling freedom for security

Recommended reading

• Proposal for a Directive of the Council and the European Parliament on the use of Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime (18.11.2015)
• Unintended consequences, European-style: How the new EU Data Protection Regulation will be misused to censor speech (20.11.2015)
• EU privacy watchdog calls for more "processing of personal data" transparency (30.11.2015)
• Unintended consequences, European-style: How the new EU Data Protection Regulation will be misused to censor speech (20.11.2015)
• Taking “Free Basics” in Kenya for a spin (25.11.2015)
• EDiMA: The impact of ancillary rights in news products

Recommended action

• Offer your loved ones the gift of privacy and online freedom!

  Offer a gift that matters: Support us and our work by giving your friends and family members one of our charity campaign gifts!
  https://edri.org/campaign/digital-rights-charity-gifts-to-change-the-world/

• Report censored contents!

  Onlinecensorship.org platform seeks to encourage social media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate speech.
  https://onlinecensorship.org/

Agenda

• 02.12.2015 Screening of the documentary “Democracy – Im Rausch der Daten”

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.12.2015 Mass surveillance and internal security in the EU

  Brussels, Belgium

• 09.12.2015 Post-Snowden Cryptography

  Brussels, Belgium

• 10.12.2015 International conference e-Society.mk

  Skopje, Macedonia

• 27.12.2015 32C3 – the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 26.01.2016 Pre-CPDP Privacy Camp – The multiple ways of (de/self-) regulation: What is at stake for human rights?

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Netherlands: Preliminary questions on blocking Pirate Bay access
• EU and US NGOs propose privacy reforms post Schrems
• The School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright: United to #fixcopyright
• UK Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: Missed opportunity
• Data Protection Directive on law enforcement: The loopholes
• Founder of a Portuguese leak platform subject to gagging order
• EU Parliament to vote on contentious anti-radicalisation Resolution

Recommended reading

• FRA study on Member States' legal framework on surveillance (18.11.2015)
• Personal data in the digital age - educational videos
• Democracy: the film that gets behind the scenes of the European privacy debate (14.11.2015)
• KAT-EXCLUSIVE: EU Commission due to issue legislative proposal on content portability in spring 2016, wants to make some exceptions mandatory, and dreams of full copyright harmonisation (05.11.2015)

Recommended action

• Consultations of importance to digital rights

  The European institutions and international policy-making bodies frequently organise consultations, which are open not only to industry but also to civil society and individuals. These are valuable opportunities to shape policy in a positive way, from the outset rather than needing to take to the streets when the wrong policy is developed based on bad analysis.
  https://edri.org/2015-consultations-digital-rights/

Agenda

• 18.11.2015 World Forum for Democracy – Freedom vs control: For a democratic response

  Strasbourg, France

• 23.11.2015 Internetdagarna

  Stockholm, Sweden

• 24.11.2015 #DigiKon15

  Berlin, Germany

• 25.11.2015 XVII International Symposium on Computers in Education

  Setúbal, Portugal

• 30.11.2015 Democracy in the Digital Era

  Lisbon, Portugal

• 02.12.2015 Screening of the documentary “Democracy – Im Rausch der Daten”

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Minister of Interior and National Police Force win Dutch BBA 2015
• Smart Borders package: Unproportionate & unnecessary data collection
• Can the US be a “safe harbor” for travel surveillance?
• Austrian BBA awarded to the new intelligence services act
• ENDitorial: The EU's data protection reform – a lost opportunity?
• ENDitorial: A system you never heard of undermined net neutrality

Recommended reading

• Streaming reaches flood stage: Does Spotify stimulate or depress music sales?
• Privacy and ISDS after Safe Harbour invalidation: Singapore FTA (26.10.2015)
• Call for robust privacy legislation in wake of EU Safe Harbor strike-down (28.10.2015)
• Legality of Voluntary ‘Pirate’ Site Blocking Regime Under Fire (28.10.2015)

Recommended action

• Defend digital rights in France!

  Support La Quadrature du Net's work on online rights and freedoms!
  https://soutien.laquadrature.net/

Agenda

• 04.11.2015 CopyCamp Conference 2015 – Understanding the Social Impacts of Copyright

  Warsaw, Poland

• 05.11.2015 The School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright

  Warsaw, Poland

• 06.11.2015 FIfF-Conference 2015: Commercialisation of the Soci(et)al – Markets and Power in the Age of Total Datafication

  Erlangen, Germany

• 06.11.2015 Mozilla Festival

  London, United Kingdom

• 17.11.2015 EUhackathon

  Brussels, Belgium

• 18.11.2015 World Forum for Democracy – Freedom vs control: For a democratic response

  Strasbourg, France

From edri.org

• Ansip changes course on Telecoms market consolidation
• UN withdraws the report on cyber violence against women
• EP Committee adopts short-sighted anti-”radicalisation” report
• FCForum will bring together free culture & digital rights activists
• FNF15: Privacy advocates' summit in Brussels
• Turkey: New attempts to limit online access and freedom of speech
• The final countdown for net neutrality in the EU

Recommended reading

• EU-US Umbrella Data Protection Agreement : Detailed analysis by Douwe Korff (14.10.2015)
• Information Controls during Military Operations: The case of Yemen during the 2015 political and armed conflict (21.10.2015)
• Security service access to personal data? Sure, why not? says Romania (15.10.2015)
• Ex Post Impact Assessment on Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (InfoSoc)
• Pay No Attention to the Server Behind the Proxy: Mapping FinFisher’s Continuing Proliferation (15.10.2015)

Recommended action

• Save the Internet

  The final countdown for ‪‎net neutrality‬ in Europe has started. Help us save the Internet and contact your Members of the EU Parliament! Here's how to do it: https://savetheinternet.eu/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6fXpo8uQtA&feature=youtu.be

Agenda

• 25.10.2015 Austrian Big Brother Awards

  Vienna, Austria

• 28.10.2015 Dutch Big Brother Awards 2015

  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 30.10.2015 FCForum’15

  Barcelona, Spain

• 30.10.2015 Free Culture Forum 2015

  Barcelona, Spain

• 04.11.2015 CopyCamp Conference 2015 – Understanding the Social Impacts of Copyright

  Warsaw, Poland

• 05.11.2015 The School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright

  Warsaw, Poland

From edri.org

• Unclear “net neutrality” proposal returns to European Parliament
• Finland: New surveillance law threatens fundamental rights
• CCC campaigns to provide Internet access to refugees in Germany
• Fifteen years late, Safe Harbor hits the rocks
• Netherlands: New proposals for dragnet surveillance underway
• EU Commission: IT companies to fix “terrorist use of the Internet”
• EU Commission: IT companies to fix “hate speech on the Internet”

Recommended reading

• Mass surveillance in Germany rebuked by Council of Europe (02.10.2015)
• The challenge to Safe Harbour - a totem for something much more fundamental (01.10.2015)
• Facebook hopes renaming internet.org app will shut net neutrality critics up (28.09.2015)
• The Council challenges the right of the European Ombudsman to conduct an inquiry into secret "trilogues" (24.09.2015)

Recommended action

• Donate for Internet cafes & computer workshops for Refugees!

  Help refugees to access the Internet, to stay in touch relatives and friends abroad, read the news from their homecountry, use translation services, get informed about their new city, it's laws and their rights.
  https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/20601-internet-cafes-computer-workshops-for-refugees

• Save the Internet!

  Your freedom online is threatened by an EU proposal. The fight for the open Internet is happening right now in Brussels. Contact the European Parliament!
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

• Support our work for your digital rights!

  European Digital Rights fights for your right to privacy, freedom of expression, modernisation of copyright rules, legal protection for net neutrality and against new European proposals for mass surveillance. Our work is only possible with the continued financial support of donors like you!
  https://edri.org/supporters/

Agenda

• 10.10.2015 Stop TTIP CETA Demo – protest for a fair world trade

  Berlin, Germany

• 13.10.2015 Freedom of Expression: Still a precondition for democracy?

  Strasbourg, France

• 15.10.2015 Big Brother Awards Belgium

  Brussels, Belgium

• 16.10.2015 Freedom not Fear

  Brussels, Belgium

• 16.10.2015 EDRi members meetup

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.10.2015 Austrian Big Brother Awards

  Vienna, Austria

From edri.org

• Germany dreams of security: An ID for every “thing” connected
• EU Parliament's “radicalisation” draft report – lost in translation
• State of play of Internet freedom in the Netherlands
• Germany: The secret service's 300-million-euro surveillance plan
• AVG starts selling personal data to third parties
• Generali, the health insurer who wants to know everything about you
• Two Danes arrested for publishing information about Popcorn Time
• ENDitorial: EU Commission ISDS proposal - a threat to democracy

Recommended reading

• Safe Harbour analysis: what today’s ruling might mean (23.09.2015)
• Plaintiff's reaction to Advocate General's Opinion on the Safe Harbor agreement (23.09.2015)
• DPLA, Europeana, Creative Commons Collaborate on International Rights Statements
• French data protection watchdog rejects Google’s search delisting appeal (22.09.2015)

Recommended action

• Support EDRi!

  European Digital Rights fights for your right to privacy, freedom of expression, modernisation of copyright rules, legal protection for net neutrality and against new European proposals for mass surveillance. Our work is only possible with the continued financial support of donors like you!
  https://edri.org/supporters/

Agenda

• 28.09.2015 Trilogues and transparent law-making

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.10.2015 Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age

  Brussels, Belgium

• 10.10.2015 Stop TTIP CETA Demo – protest for a fair world trade

  Berlin, Germany

• 13.10.2015 Freedom of Expression: Still a precondition for democracy?

  Strasbourg, France

• 15.10.2015 Big Brother Awards Belgium

  Brussels, Belgium

• 16.10.2015 Freedom not Fear

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Austria creates new agency with unprecedented surveillance powers
• Portugal: Privatised copyright law enforcement agreement now public
• EDRi identifies key challenges to freedom of expression online
• Three French NGOs challenge French international surveillance
• Journalists detained in Turkey for using encryption
• Terrorists behind the attacks in France not radicalised “online”
• Romania: After PNR, a proposal for retention of tourist data
• ENDitorial: Racism in Germany - Facebook should do "more"

Recommended reading

• The Red Web by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan review – Russia’s attack on internet freedoms
• Parliament calls for stricter controls over surveillance tech exports (09.09.2015)
• Study Finds ‘Supercookies’ Used Outside U.S. (17.08.2015)

Recommended action

• Educate and empower children on online privacy!

  Help us crowdfund educational material to teach online privacy to kids! Donate now!
  http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/online-privacy-for-children/

• Say no to an interior secret agency in Austria!

  Sign and spread the online petition to prevent the creation of an interior secret agency in Austria!
  https://www.staatsschutz.at/en/

Agenda

• 22.09.2015 MAPPING First General Assembly: From Privacy to Freedom of Expression: The Continuum in 2015-2020

  Hannover, Germany

• 28.09.2015 Trilogues and transparent law-making

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.10.2015 Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age

  Brussels, Belgium

• 10.10.2015 Stop TTIP CETA Demo – protest for a fair world trade

  Berlin, Germany

• 13.10.2015 Freedom of Expression: Still a precondition for democracy?

  Strasbourg, France

• 15.10.2015 Big Brother Awards Belgium

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Portugal: "Voluntary" agreement against copyright infringements
• Netzpolitik.org case: Prosecutor dismissed, inquiry dropped
• Launch of the EU Internet Forum – without civil society
• Facebook patent: Lending based on social connections
• Internet censorship redux - under the guise of regulating gambling

Recommended reading

• Data Protection Regulation: documents from the secret "trilogues" (05.08.2015)
• Facebook "loophole" allows personal data harvesting (10.08.2015)
• Cybersecurity bill could 'sweep away' internet users' privacy, agency warns (03.08.2015)
• EU Data Protection Reform - EDPS recommendations on the EU’s options for data protection reform (27.08.2015)

Recommended action

• Install Privacy Badger!

  Stop advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web!
  https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Agenda

• 13.08.2015 Chaos Communication Camp

  Zehdenick, Germany

• 03.09.2015 Das ABC des Freien Wissens

  Berlin, Germany

• 22.09.2015 MAPPING First General Assembly: From Privacy to Freedom of Expression: The Continuum in 2015-2020

  Hannover, Germany

• 28.09.2015 Trilogues and transparent law-making

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.10.2015 Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age

  Brussels, Belgium

• 10.10.2015 Stop TTIP CETA Demo – protest for a fair world trade

  Berlin, Germany

From edri.org

• French Constitutional Council approves sweeping surveillance powers
• A new wave of Internet blocking in Turkey
• European Commission will “monitor” existing EU data retention laws
• David Wessel: "I get between three and five take down notices daily"
• ENDitorial: European Parliament – translating freedoms into Chinese

Recommended reading

• UK Court rules DRIPA unlawful (22.07.2015)
• High Court rules that DRIPA is unlawful (17.07.2015)
• EU PNR document pool (27.07.2015)

Recommended action

• Enjoy your holidays!

Agenda

• 13.08.2015 Chaos Communication Camp

  Zehdenick, Germany

• 03.09.2015 Das ABC des Freien Wissens

  Berlin, Germany

• 22.09.2015 MAPPING First General Assembly: From Privacy to Freedom of Expression: The Continuum in 2015-2020

  Hannover, Germany

• 28.09.2015 Trilogues and transparent law-making

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.10.2015 Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age

  Brussels, Belgium

• 10.10.2015 Stop TTIP CETA Demo – protest for a fair world trade

  Berlin, Germany

From edri.org

• Remembering Caspar Bowden
• Remembering Özgür Uçkan
• Dutch Minister reveals plans for dragnet surveillance
• TTIP Resolution: what did the Parliament say about Digital Rights?
• ICANN considers banning privacy services
• Surveillance technology company Hacking Team hacked
• EU Parliament pushes for more surveillance and profiling of citizens

Recommended reading

• In sweeping effort to spy on civil society, Macedonia broke its own privacy laws (14.07.2015)
• German data protection activist Rena Tangens receives Federal Consumer Protection Award (only in German, 29.06.2015)
• Germany's leading digital rights blog Netzpolitik.org accused Of "treason" after leaking bulk surveillance plans (13.07.2015)
• EU Parliament resolution on TTIP is a diplomatic blunder (08.07.2015)

Recommended action

• Recommend EDRi-gram!

  Shouldn't your friends be reading EDRi-gram, too? Forward the subscription link to this newsletter to five friends!
  http://edri.org/newsletter

Agenda

• 15.07.2015 TTIP Stakeholders event, round 10

  Brussels, Belgium

• 13.08.2015 Chaos Communication Camp

  Zehdenick, Germany

• 03.09.2015 Das ABC des Freien Wissens

  Berlin, Germany

• 22.09.2015 MAPPING First General Assembly: From Privacy to Freedom of Expression: The Continuum in 2015-2020

  Hannover, Germany

• 28.09.2015 Trilogues and transparent law-making

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.10.2015 Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Blurry, ambiguous net neutrality deal - abdication of responsibility
• Google admits it was wrong on “right to be forgotten”
• WiFi tracking and the ePrivacy Directive in Denmark
• AFET Committee adopts its Report on Human rights and technology
• Belgian coalition demands suspension of the TTIP negotiations
• An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from suspended user Giz
• JURI Committee adopts disastrous Trade Secrets provisions

Recommended reading

• Wikileaks: Trade in Services Agreement (01.07.2015)
• France proposes empty ISDS reforms (25.06.2015)

Recommended action

• Reject an ISDS compromise!

  Contact your MEP to reject this compromise amendment on ISDS in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)!
  https://twitter.com/edri/status/616248079944142849

• Save the Internet!

  The fight for net neutrality continues. Contact your MEP!
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

Agenda

• 11.07.2015 2015 IViR Symposium on alternative compensation systems for digital copyright

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 15.07.2015 TTIP Stakeholders event, round 10

  Brussels, Belgium

• 13.08.2015 Chaos Communication Camp

  Zehdenick, Germany

• 03.09.2015 Das ABC des Freien Wissens

  Berlin, Germany

• 22.09.2015 MAPPING First General Assembly: From Privacy to Freedom of Expression: The Continuum in 2015-2020

  Hannover, Germany

• 28.09.2015 Trilogues and transparent law-making

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• UK: Report of the investigatory powers review
• EU continues push for travel surveillance by the back door
• Belgian Constitutional Court rules against data retention
• Microsoft's new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used
• Council confirms it wants to trade net neutrality for end of roaming
• European Parliament shows little ambition on copyright reform

Recommended reading

• EDRi paper: TTIP and digital rights
• Declaration of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on ICANN, human rights and the rule of law
• Delfi AS v. Estonia: a blow to free expression online (16.06.2015)
• Our overview of the Digital Single Market Communication (17.06.2015)
• Information Privacy and Data Security
• German watchdog doubts constitutionality of data retention plans (11.06.2015)

Recommended action

• Save the Internet!

  Contact your MEPs to tell them to not give up on net neutrality and their strong position from last year!
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

• Become EDRi Supporter!

  European Digital Rights fights for your right to privacy, freedom of expression, modernisation of copyright rules, legal protection for net neutrality and against new European proposals for mass surveillance. Our work is only possible with the continued financial support of donors like you!
  https://edri.org/supporters/

Agenda

• 11.07.2015 2015 IViR Symposium on alternative compensation systems for digital copyright

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 15.07.2015 TTIP Stakeholders event, round 10

  Brussels, Belgium

• 13.08.2015 Chaos Communication Camp

  Zehdenick, Germany

• 03.09.2015 Das ABC des Freien Wissens

  Berlin, Germany

• 22.09.2015 MAPPING First General Assembly: From Privacy to Freedom of Expression: The Continuum in 2015-2020

  Hannover, Germany

• 28.09.2015 Trilogues and transparent law-making

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Danish Ministry of Culture: Danes should be regulated by Google
• EU Commission set to re-brand the failed CleanIT project
• Data retention: German government tries again
• General Data Protection Regulation: Moving forward, slowly
• Turkey blocks political websites
• Startups for Net Neutrality
• ENDitorial: From copywrong to copyright?

Recommended reading

• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye
• INTA Committee TTIP Report
• JURI Committee IPR Enforcement Report (18.05.2015)
• EDRi's letter to Kosovo Assembly on data retention
• LIBE study: The US legal system on data protection in the field of law enforcement. Safeguards, rights and remedies for EU citizens

Recommended action

• Save copyright reform!

  Call your Members of the European Parliament now to tell you want them to fix copyright. Vote in the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) will take place on 16 June.
  http://copywrongs.eu/

Agenda

• 05.06.2015 IPEN Workshop 2015

  Leuven, Belgium

• 16.06.2015 LIBE/INTA joint public hearing on Trade agreements and data flows

  Brussels, Belgium

• 11.07.2015 2015 IViR Symposium on alternative compensation systems for digital copyright

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 15.07.2015 TTIP Stakeholders event, round 10

  Brussels, Belgium

• 13.08.2015 Chaos Communication Camp

  Zehdenick, Germany

• 03.09.2015 Das ABC des Freien Wissens

  Berlin, Germany

From edri.org

• EDRi-gram 300: Digital rights news from 2025

Recommended action

• Fight for your privacy!

  Join the daily global privacy movement gatherings in front your local government buildings and corporate headquarters, and show the decision-makers that your privacy matters!

• Say NO to neuro-compilers!

  Answer to the public consultation by European Commission’s B.R.A.I.N research project on the ethical implications of first generation neuro-compilers!

Agenda

• 22.05.2015 POINT 4.0

  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 25.05.2015 Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners: Freedom and Pluralism of Traditional and New Media

  Florence, Italy

• 05.06.2015 IPEN Workshop 2015

  Leuven, Belgium

• 16.06.2015 LIBE/INTA joint public hearing on Trade agreements and data flows

  Brussels, Belgium

• 11.07.2015 2015 IViR Symposium on alternative compensation systems for digital copyright

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 15.07.2015 TTIP Stakeholders event, round 10

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• You can now become an official EDRi Supporter
• Slovakia: Mass surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional
• Privacy Cafés launched to improve secure communications in the EP
• Emotion tracking company gets funding from the European Commission
• Turkish student sentenced for re-tweeting satirical news
• Digital Single Market: A missed opportunity

Recommended reading

• In a letter to Congress senior US legal experts and a Nobel laureate in economic sciences write that investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is antithetical to the rule of law
• The data retention tsunami: how EU Member States are reacting to the annulment of the data retention directive (27.04.2015)
• ISDS: diplomatic blunder Malmström threatens democracy and privacy

Recommended action

• Become an official EDRi Supporter!

  European Digital Rights fights for your right to privacy, freedom of expression, modernisation of copyright rules, legal protection for net neutrality and against new European proposals for mass surveillance. Our work is only possible with the continued financial support of donors like you!
  https://edri.org/supporters/

Agenda

• 06.05.2015 re:publica 15

  Berlin, Germany

• 09.05.2015 Direitos de Autor e DRM

  Águeda, Portugal

• 22.05.2015 POINT 4.0

  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 25.05.2015 Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners: Freedom and Pluralism of Traditional and New Media

  Florence, Italy

• 05.06.2015 IPEN Workshop 2015

  Leuven, Belgium

• 16.06.2015 LIBE/INTA joint public hearing on Trade agreements and data flows

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Big Brother Awards Germany 2015
• Hungarian data retention case: ORG, PI & scholars file amicus briefs
• Net Neutrality: Save The Internet relaunch
• Legal Affairs Committee: ISDS and IPR must be excluded from TTIP
• French surveillance bill pushed ahead despite massive criticism
• New Danish PNR system will rival the EU PNR Directive
• Non-US Twitter accounts now subject to EU Data Protection rules
• Italy: Anti-terrorism decree to strengthen government surveillance

Recommended reading

• Citizens’ groups from around the world call on EC to defend privacy (21.04.2015)
• Biometric data and data protection law: the CJEU loses the plot (17.04.2015)
• TTIP transparency transformed by campaigners, says EU Ombudsman (21.04.2015)
• TTIP - The Dealers

Recommended action

• Save The Link!

  Censoring links breaks the Internet. Key public officials are about to make a decision that could block your ability to link to your favourite content and services. Tell decision makers to stop new regulations that aim to restrict our right to link.
  https://savethelink.org/

• Code Red!

  Join the global initiative to accelerate reform of security organisations.
  https://codered.is/

Agenda

• 05.05.2015 re:publica 15 – finding europe

  Berlin, Germany

• 06.05.2015 re:publica 15

  Berlin, Germany

• 09.05.2015 Direitos de Autor e DRM

  Águeda, Portugal

• 22.05.2015 POINT 4.0

  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 25.05.2015 Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners: Freedom and Pluralism of Traditional and New Media

  Florence, Italy

• 05.06.2015 IPEN Workshop 2015

  Leuven, Belgium

From edri.org

• Marrakesh Treaty: EU must take action now
• UPC Ireland trapped by its own ToS, has to introduce “three strikes”
• Spanish Citizens’ Security law: There is still some hope
• Report says Facebook tracking breaches EU law
• Social media platforms blocked again in Turkey
• Data protection and privacy must be excluded from TTIP

Recommended reading

• Social democrats propose dangerously flawed ISDS reforms (02.04.2015)
• Do Facebook and the USA violate EU data protection law? The CJEU hearing in Schrems (29.03.2015)

Recommended action

• French Surveillance Bill: Time To Act!

  Contact French MPs to share your concerns about the Intelligence Bill, and ask them to refuse to vote a law which is dangerous for the democratic balance of our country.
  https://www.laquadrature.net/en/french-surveillance-bill-time-to-act

Agenda

• 10.04.2015 AEDH Seminar: TTIP and its effects on fundamental rights

  Brussels, Belgium

• 15.04.2015 Digital Rights Europe 2015

  Dublin, Ireland

• 16.04.2015 Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS)

  The Hague, Netherlands

• 17.04.2015 German Big Brother Awards

  Bielefeld, Germany

• 17.04.2015 Kick-Off-Meeting “Cyberpeace”

  Berlin, Germany

• 18.04.2015 Global Trade Day

From edri.org

• Patriot Act à la française: France to legalise unlawful surveillance
• Copyright exceptions and limitations - back to the future
• EDRi joins the Document Freedom Day
• In Germany, Data Retention refuses to die
• Denmark plans to preserve illegally collected medical data
• Bad analogies and the threat to “cybersecurity”
• Parliament's work on copyright enforcement - not worth copying
• ENDitorial: The evolution of the concept of privacy

Recommended reading

• International investment court plan threatens our democracy
• The Proposed Data Protection Regulation: What has the Council agreed so far? (13.03.2015)
• Preparations for a comprehensive copyright reform in the EU Parliament: Document pool
• Data retention law struck down - for now (11.03.2015)

Recommended action

• No mass surveillance of air passengers!

  Tell the European Parliament why the PNR proposal will not bring more security, but it will involve massive and expensive surveillance and profiling of all air travellers!
  http://igg.me/at/nopnr

Agenda

• 25.03.2015 Document Freedom Day #DFD2015

• 25.03.2015 Deadline for ITRE amendments for Reda’s report on copyright

• 26.03.2015 Deadline for JURI amendments for Draft Opinion on TTIP

• 26.03.2015 Deadline for INTA amendments for Draft Report on TTIP

• 26.03.2015 Deadline for JURI amendments for Svoboda’s report on IPR enforcement

• 10.04.2015 AEDH Seminar: TTIP and its effects on fundamental rights

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Danish anti-terror proposal expands surveillance
• Czech Big Brother Awards shine light on privacy invasions
• France implements Internet censorship without judicial oversight
• Austrian Internet users to pay for intransparent web blocking scheme
• Revelations on Safe Harbour violations go to hearing at EU Court
• Dutch civil rights group highlights dangers of ISDS in trade deals
• Scottish Government proposes a national ID database
• ENDitorial: Spanish rightsholders lobby against copyright reform

Recommended reading

• Data Protection - Broken Badly
• LobbyPlag: Over 11.000 pages classified EU documents showing national governments are working against data protection reform
• TiSa mandate - draft Directives for the negotiation of a plurilateral agreement on trade in services

Recommended action

• Tweet #TTIPTuesday!

  The European Parliament is working on a TTIP resolution. Join a Twitter action and tweet with the hashtag #TTIPTuesday!
  https://twitter.com/hashtag/ttiptuesday

Agenda

• 14.03.2015 EDRi General Assembly

  Brussels, Belgium

• 21.03.2015 Education Freedom Day

• 24.03.2015 RightsCon South East Asia

  Manila, Philippines

• 25.03.2015 Deadline for ITRE amendments for Reda’s report on copyright

• 25.03.2015 Document Freedom Day #DFD2015

• 26.03.2015 Deadline for JURI amendments for Svoboda’s report on IPR enforcement

From edri.org

• Report on our fundraising campaign
• Net neutrality: Freedom also means banning positive discrimination
• Activist Guide to the Brussels Maze updated
• Turkish academics threaten Twitter with legal action
• Did GCHQ spy on you? Find out now!
• UN report on copyright - is the EU really a beacon of human rights?
• European Parliament failing to support copyright reform

Recommended reading

• Unified Patent Court a mistake of historic dimensions? (13.02.2015)
• Response to UN Special Rapporteur’s Call for Comments on Encryption and Anonymity Online
• Draft Report on the proposal for a directive on the use of PNR data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime (17.02.2015)

Recommended action

• Hungary's data retention law - Call for amicus briefs

  The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union is urgently seeking amicus briefs to support its case against the Hungarian data retention law. The case is currently before the country's Constitutional Court.
  http://www.liberties.eu/en/news/support-hclu-against-hungary-data-retention-law

• Dear FCC, the world is watching

  Tell US policymakers to support the open Internet!
  https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/global-fcc

Agenda

• 25.02.2015 Civil Society Dialogue meeting : Update on TiSA talks

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.03.2015 Towards a new Legislation on Intellectual Property in the Digital Single Market

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.03.2015 CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action

  France, Paris

• 04.03.2015 ISDS beyond TTIP: EU reforms and impacts on the Global South

  Brussels, Belgium

• 05.03.2015 ISDS Training for activists

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.03.2015 EDRi General Assembly

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Final push for our crowdsourcing campaign
• Macedonia: Massive surveillance revelation: 20 000 people wiretapped
• Yet another internet blocking law in Turkey
• Finnish BB Awards to Commissioner Paatero, Police Board & Microsoft
• Facing a challenge – understanding Facebook's opt-out instructions
• UK court finds secret spying docs made surveillance illegal
• Netherlands: Two telcos fined for Net neutrality violations
• Digital Rights orgs call on world leaders to uphold human rights
• Copyright Reform: Responses to Draft Report and what comes next
• ISDS - One month after the results of the public consultation

Recommended reading

• Google advisory group promotes liberal approach to right to be forgotten (05.02.2015)
• Police from several UK forces seek details of Charlie Hebdo readers (10.02.2015)
• Stakeholders welcome the European Parliament’s Resolution in support of the Internet Governance Forum
• Brussels, Washington seen seizing new regulatory powers through TTIP (11.02.2015)
• UNESCO: The Study: Summary report of 200 responses received to the online questionnaire consultation

Recommended action

• Final push for EDRi's fundraising!

  Our public fundraising campaign is reaching its end, but it's not too late yet: Donate now, follow us on twitter @edri, and share our social media posts to spread the word!
  https://edri.org/campaign/support-digital-rights-europe/

Agenda

• 14.02.2015 I love Free Software Day

  everywhere

• 24.02.2015 #Digital4EU Stakeholder Forum

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.02.2015 Civil Society Dialogue meeting : Update on TiSA talks

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.03.2015 Towards a new Legislation on Intellectual Property in the Digital Single Market

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.03.2015 CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action

  France, Paris

• 04.03.2015 ISDS beyond TTIP: EU reforms and impacts on the Global South

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EDRi launches privacy trainings in the European Parliament
• Did AGCOM censor an article about AGCOM censorship?
• NSA whistleblower Bill Binney wins Sam Adams Award
• Spanish Citizens’ Security Bill: Many restrictions, few freedoms
• Data retention in Kosovo and Switzerland – legalising illegal laws
• Icing on the cake: Romanian cybersecurity law unconstitutional
• ENDitorial: French Patriot Act: Do we really need more surveillance?

Recommended reading

• Council of Europe Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights report on mass surveillance
• European Parliament Science and Technology Options Assessment's study on mass surveillance
• Euranet Plus: What did you see? Terrorism, democracy, privacy (26.01.2015)
• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down measures concerning the European single market for electronic communications and to achieve a Connected Continent, and amending Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC and 2002/22/EC and Regulations (EC) No 1211/2009 and (EU) No 531/2012 - Examination of the Presidency compromise text on net neutrality (20.01.2015)

Recommended action

• Support Digital Rights in Europe!

  EDRi needs your support to keep our network and the Brussels office running. Donate now!
  https://edri.org/campaign/support-digital-rights-europe/

• Save the Internet!

  Help us save the internet by sending an email to your representative in the Council of the EU.
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

Agenda

• 28.01.2015 Data Privacy Day

• 05.02.2015 The Future of Audiovisual Media Services in Europe

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.02.2015 I love Free Software Day

  everywhere

• 24.02.2015 #Digital4EU Stakeholder Forum

  Brussels, Belgium

• 25.02.2015 Civil Society Dialogue meeting : Update on TiSA talks

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.03.2015 CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action

  France, Paris

From edri.org

• PEN report reveals concerns about the impact of mass surveillance
• Germany gets warning about warning letters
• European Ombudsman does not see sufficient transparency in TTIP
• Googling your brain: latest “data protection” proposals from Council
• Romanian cybersecurity law sent to the Constitutional Court
• Danish government plans to re-introduce session logging
• Legal Service Opinion on CJEU Data Retention ruling
• ENDitorial: Paris attack: Imagine if political leaders were leaders

Recommended reading

• EDRi’s work in 2014
• Net neutrality: days of future past?
• And now, ISDS? (11.01.2015)
• European Commission publishes TTIP legal texts as part of transparency initiative (07.01.2015)

Recommended action

• Support Digital Rights in Europe!

  EDRi needs your support to keep our network and the Brussels office running. Donate now!
  https://edri.org/campaign/support-digital-rights-europe/

Agenda

• 20.01.2015 Pre-CPDP Privacy Camp – Big data and ever increasing state surveillance: What are the challenges for human rights online?

  Brussels. Belgium

• 21.01.2015 CPDP2015: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection – Data Protection on the move

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.01.2015 Data Privacy Day

• 05.02.2015 The Future of Audiovisual Media Services in Europe

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.02.2015 I love Free Software Day

  everywhere

• 24.02.2015 #Digital4EU Stakeholder Forum

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• European Digital Rights needs your support!
• Data retention: EU Commission - guardian and enemy of the treaties
• Another Christmas (copyright) wish list for 2015?
• Irish surveillance legislation: secret interpretations of secret laws
• TTIP & Co.: Threats to digital rights?
• Edward Snowden honoured during Dutch Big Brother Awards ceremony
• EDRi paper for the Council of Europe: “Human Rights Online”
• EDRi participates in UNESCO study on Internet related issues

Recommended reading

• A new publication sets out a hundred principles for radical privacy campaigning (04.12.2014)
• The Swedes and the internet 2014 - An annual study of the Swedish people's internet habits (18.11.2014)
• Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Journal, Volume 11: 2014

Recommended action

• Enjoy your holidays!

  And download our seasons greetings :)
  https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/EDRi-former_ecard_seasons_greetings.gif

Agenda

• 27.12.2014 31C3 – 31st Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 20.01.2015 Pre-CPDP Privacy Camp – Big data and ever increasing state surveillance: What are the challenges for human rights online?

  Brussels. Belgium

• 21.01.2015 CPDP2015: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection – Data Protection on the move

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.01.2015 Data Privacy Day

• 05.02.2015 The Future of Audiovisual Media Services in Europe

  Brussels, Belgium

• 14.02.2015 I love Free Software Day

  everywhere

From edri.org

• Remembering Ville Oksanen
• Two steps forward and two steps back on net neutrality
• Draft Commission Work Programme 2015: Challenges for digital rights
• Dutch government: Let's keep data retention mostly unchanged
• Danish court orders a UK company to block Danish IP addresses
• EU-Canada agreement on PNR referred to the CJEU: What's next?

Recommended reading

• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down measures concerning the European sing le market for electronic communications and to achieve a Connected Continent, and amending Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC and 2002/22/EC and Regulations (EC) No 1211/2009 and (EU) No 531/2012 - State of play (21.11.2014)
• Open Content – A practical guide to using Creative Commons Licences
• Net neutrality is about the price of open internet access, more and more EU governments realize (01.12.2014)
• The EU's charter of fundamental rights - five years on (01.12.2014)
• Animation: Juncker Commission explained in 3 minutes (26.11.2014)

Recommended action

• Save the Internet!

  Tell the EU Member States: "Don't turn your backs on Net Neutrality!"
  https://savetheinternet.eu/

Agenda

• 03.12.2014 Share-PSI 2.0 workshop

  Lisbon, Portugal

• 16.12.2014 Big Brother Awards X

  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 16.12.2014 Share and inspire: Infoday on CAPS in Horizon 2020

  Brussels, Belgium

• 27.12.2014 31C3 – 31st Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 20.01.2015 Pre-CPDP Privacy Camp – Big data and ever increasing state surveillance: What are the challenges for human rights online?

  Brussels. Belgium

• 21.01.2015 CPDP2015: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection – Data Protection on the move

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Irish ISP introduces child porn blocking – doesn't know why
• PNR: Losing rights and paying for it
• Denmark plans to use PNR data for increased Schengen border control
• Obama urges the FCC to adopt rules to ensure net neutrality
• UN calls for balance between privacy and security
• ENDitorial: Transparency in TTIP? Yes, but in practice, please!

Recommended reading

• Downing Street presses ISPs over "jihad reporting" button (14.11.2014)
• Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) (13.11.2014)
• ISPs removing their customers' email encryption (11.11.2014)

Recommended action

• Support EDRi's work!

  EDRi needs your support to keep our network and the Brussels office running. You can support us with a donation via bank transfer, bitcoins or flattr.
  https://edri.org/donate/

Agenda

• 28.11.2014 LAPSI 2.0 Final conference

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.12.2014 EUhackathon

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.12.2014 Share-PSI 2.0 workshop

  Lisbon, Portugal

• 16.12.2014 Share and inspire: Infoday on CAPS in Horizon 2020

  Brussels, Belgium

• 16.12.2014 Big Brother Awards X

  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 27.12.2014 31C3 – 31st Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

From edri.org

• Hungary's Internet tax postponed but not yet abolished
• CJEU: Embedding not a copyright infringement
• Poland: New project on public institutions' surveillance practices
• Finland: Web service to request verifying of secret registry data
• The “Google tax” that is not a Google tax
• Samaritans RADAR monitor tweets
• FTDI: Is the law criminal?

Recommended reading

• Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority: Request for a statement on the draft 53 B / 2014 concerning the data retention obligation of telecom companies (only in Finnish, 04.11.2014)
• Is your IP address really yours? EU court to decide the question (29.10.2014)
• Who has your back? 2014: When copyright and trademark bullies threaten free speech (27.10.2014)
• Internet service providers must help crack down on fake goods, high court rules (20.10.2014)

Recommended action

• Secure Messaging Scorecard

  Check which apps and tools actually keep your messages safe!
  https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

• ERROR 451

  Help the UK Internet Service Providers make it clear why websites are blocked and to encourage courts to publish blocking orders, to make Internet censorship more transparent.
  http://www.451unavailable.org/

Agenda

• 05.11.2014 FCF Forum Lab

  Barcelona, Spain

• 06.11.2014 The International CopyCamp Conference 2014

  Warsaw, Poland

• 07.11.2014 30th FIfF annual conference: The fall of secrecy – a look under our own carpet

  Berlin, Germany

• 15.11.2014 ORGCon 2014

  London, United Kingdom

• 28.11.2014 LAPSI 2.0 Final conference

  Brussels, Belgium

• 02.12.2014 EUhackathon

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Google pushes forward with its voluntary pro-copyright policing
• EU Parliament promises a better document register
• Macedonian investigative magazine fined in defamation case
• France to follow Turkey's lead on lawless Internet censorship
• Web-blocking in Austria – law with the law taken out
• Balancing rights (unless we are talking about copyright)
• ENDitorial: Malmström – Always there to protect US

Recommended reading

• Ep. 3: Early Copyright History
• Munich Court Asks CJEU About Injunctions Against Operators of Open WiFis (13.10.2014)
• Italian consumers shouldn’t have to pay for software they don’t want – Letter to Regulators
• Common Sense For Copyright - proposing amendments (only in Finnish, 22.10.2014)

Recommended action

• Donate bitcoins to EDRi!

  EDRi needs your support to keep our network and the Brussels office running. We now accept donations also via bitcoin!
  https://edri.org/donate/

• Nominate your Freedom of Expression Awards 2015 candidate!

  The Freedom of Expression Awards honour the word’s most remarkable fighters for free expression: Who will it be in 2015?
  http://www.indexoncensorship.org/index-freedom-expression-awards-2015/

• Fight surveillance!

  Tell by tweeting how you fight mass surveillance!
  https://www.ifightsurveillance.org/en

Agenda

• 24.10.2014 Open Scraper Challenge 2014

  Žilina, Slovakia

• 25.10.2014 Keine Macht Spionen – Big Brother Awards 2014

  Vienna, Austria

• 29.10.2014 DEMOSEC: Democracy and Security

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.11.2014 Democracia en Red y Tecnopolítica

  Barcelona, Spain

• 05.11.2014 FCF Forum Lab

  Barcelona, Spain

• 06.11.2014 The International CopyCamp Conference 2014

  Warsaw, Poland

From edri.org

• Ex parte domain name seizures in Denmark
• Italy: Administrative copyright enforcement unconstitutional?
• Finland: Complaints about the copyright law drafting procedure
• UK format shifting and parody copyright laws come into force
• Summary of the Commissioners-designate hearings
• Despite compromising document, Malmström is here to stay
• Romania: The aftermath of the second CCR data retention ruling
• Turkey: Constitutional Court overturns Internet law amendment

Recommended reading

• Data breaches in Europe: Reported breaches of compromised personal records in Europe, 2005-2014 (07.10.2014)
• Travel surveillance: PNR by the back door (03.10.2014)
• Guidelines on methodological steps to be taken to check fundamental rights compatibility at the Council's preparatory bodies (29.09.2014)
• 10-year review of progress made in the implementation of WSIS outcomes

Recommended action

• Contribute to the TTIP consultation!

  Answer the European Ombudsman's public consultation in relation to the transparency of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. To get inspired, read EDRi-member FFII's response (draft version) here: http://people.ffii.org/~ante/ttip/FFII-Ombudsman-TTIP-consultation.html.
  http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/cases/correspondence.faces/en/56100/html.bookmark

Agenda

• 11.10.2014 European Day of Action to stop TTIP, CETA & TiSA

  Everyxhere in Europe

• 20.10.2014 Open Access Week

  everywhere

• 24.10.2014 Open Scraper Challenge 2014

  Žilina, Slovakia

• 25.10.2014 Keine Macht Spionen – Big Brother Awards 2014

  Vienna, Austria

• 29.10.2014 DEMOSEC: Democracy and Security

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.11.2014 Democracia en Red y Tecnopolítica

  Barcelona, Spain

From edri.org

• Risk-based approach to data protection: risky for fundamental rights
• Romania: Mandatory prepaid SIM registration ruled unconstitutional
• France adopts anti-terror law eroding civil liberties
• The Turkish government tightens its grip over the Internet
• Panoptykon called on MEPs to stop mass surveillance
• FNF 2014: Tackling surveillance, censorship, net discrimination
• ENDitorial: Italian position on IP Enforcement - the essence of insanity?

Recommended reading

• Classified Information: A review of current legislation across 15 countries & the EU
• The future of the Internet - Innovation and investment in IP interconnection
• Analysis: TTIP and TiSA: big pressure to trade away privacy
• French crime database system in breach of Convention for storing information on individuals against whom proceedings have been dropped (18.09.2014)
• Report: On the joint review of the implementation of the Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for the purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (11.08.2014)
• EU Data Protection Law: The Review of Directive 95/46/EC and the Proposed General Data Protection Regulation
• "ACTION SEE" Network established - requiring transparency and accountability from the governments (17.09.2014)
• Tor Challenge Inspires 1,635 Tor Relays (19.09.2014)

Recommended action

• Promote open access worldwide!

  Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student is facing up to eight years in prison for posting research results online. Academic research should be free to access and available under an open license that would legally enable the kind of sharing that is so crucial for enabling scientific progress.
  https://act.eff.org/action/let-s-stand-together-to-promote-open-access-worldwide

Agenda

• 25.09.2014 Apero on the Future of the Internet

  Brussels, Belgium

• 26.09.2014 IPEN Workshop: Engineering Privacy into Internet Services and Applications

  Berlin, Germany

• 26.09.2014 Freedom not Fear 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.10.2014 Exchange of best practices on transparency of media ownership

  Brussels, Belgium

• 11.10.2014 European Day of Action to stop TTIP, CETA & TiSA

  Everyxhere in Europe

• 20.10.2014 Open Access Week

  everywhere

From edri.org

• TTIP: where the Good Samaritan meets the Trojan Horse
• Finnish copyright initiative: Unbalanced expert hearings
• Germany exports surveillance technologies to human rights violators
• The Principles Week of Action: A world without mass surveillance
• Internet Governance Forum and Internet Ungovernance Forum
• Open letter to Google’s Advisory Council on the “right to be forgotten”

Recommended reading

• If a parody conveys a discriminatory message, a person holding rights in the parodied work may demand that that work should not be associated with that message (03.09.2014)
• GISWatch Special Report: Internet rights that went wrong in Turkey
• Turkey tightens Internet controls, weeks into new government (09.09.2014)

Recommended action

• Sign a letter to defend net neutrality!

  We're in the battle for the net. Tell lawmakers: “Protect Internet freedom. Defend net neutrality.”
  https://www.battleforthenet.com/

• Celebrate the anniversary of the Necessary and Proportionate Principles!

  Participate in nominating the candidates for the awards for those who have championed the Principles and those who have worked against them!
  https://docs.google.com/a/accessnow.org/forms/d/1djUkW3vpB7CWJ2LWerNQiIkuzkwz7nXuh4BUTMD1ky0/viewform

• Organise a workshop at FNF!

  Do you have an idea for a workshop or a discussion for the Freedom not Fear 2014? Contact info@freedom-not-fear.eu, or come and host it spontaneously on 26-29 September in Brussels!
  http://www.freedomnotfear.org/

Agenda

• 20.09.2014 Software Freedom Day

  everywhere

• 20.09.2014 #DNP14 – Daten, Netz & Politik

  Vienna, Austria

• 25.09.2014 Apero on the Future of the Internet

  Brussels, Belgium

• 26.09.2014 IPEN Workshop: Engineering Privacy into Internet Services and Applications

  Berlin, Germany

• 26.09.2014 Freedom not Fear 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 03.10.2014 Exchange of best practices on transparency of media ownership

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Online freedoms in Serbia still under threat, analysis shows
• Europe vs. Facebook class action attracted over 60.000 plaintiffs
• Ukraine: Sanctions against Russia threaten to result in media censorship
• Google now supports AND opposes the "right to be forgotten"
• Canadian data broker tries to sell hacked online customer data
• Internet Ungovernance Forum – civil society counterbalance to IGF
• ENDitorial: ISDS Consultation – redefining "omnishambles"

Recommended reading

• The privacy of our medical records is being sold off (28.08.2014)
• TTIP: Italy and EU Commissioner lobby for negotiation mandate to be made public (26.08.2014)
• NSA and GCHQ agents "leak Tor bugs", alleges developer (22.08.2014)
• German digital agenda is "better late than never" (21.08.2014)
• Presentation of IT security law draft - "belts for the IT critical infrastructure" (only in German, 19.08.2014)
• Internet architecture and the layers principle: a conceptual framework for regulating Bitcoin (19.08.2014)
• The right to be forgotten and the EU data protection reform: Why we must see through a distorted debate and adopt strong new rules soon (18.08.2014)
• Targeting Turkey: How Germany spies on its friends (18.08.2014)
• Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality: Wikimedia turns its back on the open internet (08.08.2014)
• EU Ombudsman demands more TTIP transparency (31.07.2014)

Recommended action

• Demand free, secure, and neutral internet!

  Support Internet Ungovernance Forum organised by EDRi member Alternatif Bilisim!
  https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/

• Participate EUhackathon!

  The EUhackathon website is live and the call for application for coders is online. Register by 5 October!
  http://www.euhackathon.eu

Agenda

• 30.08.2014 Freiheit statt Angst

  Berlin, Germany

• 02.09.2014 The Ninth Annual IGF Meeting

  Istanbul, Turkey

• 04.09.2014 Internet Ungovernance Forum

  Istanbul, Turkey

• 04.09.2014 Energise! Network! Mobilise!

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 04.09.2014 Privacy: redefinition

  Warsaw, Poland

• 20.09.2014 #DNP14 – Daten, Netz & Politik

  Vienna, Austria

From edri.org

• EU Commissioner on ISDS consultation: “An outright attack”
• French Digital Council publishes report on platform neutrality
• Russia and Austria take action against use of Tor
• Spain: why you should care about the Citizens' Security Bill
• Poland: Wojciech Wiewiórowski will remain DPC for the second term
• Summary report of the responses to the copyright public consultation

Recommended reading

• Polish Constitutional Tribunal: there must be independent control over special agencies activities (only in Polish, 30.07.2014)
• How your innocent smartphone passes on almost your entire life to the secret service
• New report shows global opposition to #NSA spying is based on privacy, not ideology
• OHCHR report: "The right to privacy in the digital age"
• Twitter “Blocks” access to Russia's most infamous hackers (27.07.2014)
• 10 Things You Didn't Know You Agreed to via Terms of Service (24.07.2014)
• Putin signs data retention law (23.07.2014)
• Net neutrality debate threatens 911 emergency services (23.07.2014)
• The rise of data and the death of politics (20.07.2014)
• Preliminary report (statistical overview): Online public consultation on investment protection and investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) (18.07.2014)
• Data Retention after the Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (30.06.2014)

Recommended action

• Bits of Freedom: Job opening

  EDRi member Bits of Freedom is looking for an enthusiastic, Dutch speaking “bewegingbouwer” to help building the Dutch digital civil rights movement. Send your application by 25 August!
  https://www.bof.nl/2014/07/25/bits-of-freedom-zoekt-een-toegewijde-bewegingbouwer-vacature/

• Alet etme!

  Do not make use of child-protection concerns for censorship and surveillance activities! Oppose Turkish Ministry of Interior's purchase of filtering software NetClean!
  https://aletetme.org/en/

• Comment on the draft rules on whistleblowing!

  EU institutions are obliged to lay down internal rules covering the protection of whistleblowers. The Ombudsman is inviting comments from interested third parties on the draft rules by 30 September.
  http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/cases/correspondence.faces/en/54613/html.bookmark

• "Under surveillance" – animated movies

  Watch and share EDRi member Panoptykon's animated stories about life under surveillance.
  http://vimeo.com/album/2937103

Agenda

• 06.08.2014 Wikimania 2014

  London, United Kingdom

• 30.08.2014 Freiheit statt Angst

  Berlin, Germany

• 02.09.2014 The Ninth Annual IGF Meeting

  Istanbul, Turkey

• 04.09.2014 Internet Ungovernance Forum

  Istanbul, Turkey

• 04.09.2014 Energise! Network! Mobilise!

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 04.09.2014 Privacy: redefinition

  Warsaw, Poland

From edri.org

• Job vacancy: EU Advocacy Manager
• UK: Emergency legislation on data retention pushed through
• Slovenia: Data retention unconstitutional, deletion of data ordered
• Code Red, global initiative to support a reform of security services
• Almost one in five sites blocked by filters in the UK
• Germany asks CIA chief to leave the country over spying scandal
• ENDitorial: Child abuse online: Is ignorance the best policy?
• ENDitorial: Commission Communication on IP Enforcement

Recommended reading

• DRI added as amicus in challenge to Safe Harbour Transfers (16.07.2014)
• Statement of Concern about Planned Provisions on Investment Protection and ISDS in the TTIP
• 121 scholars speak out against planned ISDS provisions in TTIP (15.07.2014)
• Big Brother’s Little Brother? The scope of the ‘household exception’ to EU data protection law (10.07.2014)
• How many unconstitutionality rulings do you need in order to respect our privacy? (10.07.2014)
• European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber hearing Delfi AS v. Estonia (09.07.2014)
• Aereo signals it sees path to survival if classified as cable system (09.07.2014)
• Top 5 Tech – All you need to know for the Italian EU Presidency (08.07.2014)
• The big Serbian information shutdown (07.07.2014)

Recommended action

• British Telecom: How will YOU protect user privacy?

  Join EDRi member Access to demand British Telecom to explain why it hasn’t released a transparency report on government requests, and how it plans to protect our data!
  https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/bt

Agenda

• 06.08.2014 Wikimania 2014

  London, United Kingdom

• 30.08.2014 Freiheit statt Angst

  Berlin, Germany

• 02.09.2014 The Ninth Annual IGF Meeting

  Istanbul, Turkey

• 04.09.2014 Internet Ungovernance Forum

  Istanbul, Turkey

• 04.09.2014 Energise! Network! Mobilise!

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 04.09.2014 Privacy: redefinition

  Warsaw, Poland

From edri.org

• Denmark about to implement a nationwide ANPR system
• Google and the right to be forgotten - the truth is out there
• Irish High Court refers the Facebook/PRISM case to the CJEU
• Supreme Court of the US on cell phone searches: get a warrant
• Flawed Dutch government study on ISDS
• Romania: No communication without registration
• Poland: Secret services escape citizens’ control
• We are not accusing the German minister of interior of lying

Recommended reading

• Commission presents actions to better protect and enforce intellectual property rights (01.07.2014)
• Mobile roaming charges halved as EU introduces new caps (01.07.2014)
• Facebook playing your feelings is legal but "creepy", say law experts (01.07.2014)
• Austrian court axes data retention law following EU high court ruling (27.06.2014)
• US to extend privacy protection rights to EU citizens (25.06.2014)
• Aereo Loses at Supreme Court, in Victory for TV Broadcasters (25.06.2014)
• EU lawyers tell Member States: Blanket communications data retention "no longer possible" (23.06.2014)
• Russian bureaucracy’s race to police the web (23.06.2014)
• International study finds four in ten organisations obstruct our access to our own data (23.06.2014)
• Publishers make recommendations as EU copyright white paper nears (23.06.2014)
• UK ISPs Quietly block more torrent site proxies (23.06.2014)
• Lobbyists increasingly look online to influence EU policy (23.06.2014)
• EU states let NSA tap data cables, Danish media say (20.06.2014)

Recommended action

• Tell the European Commission your views on ISDS!

  Answer to a public consultation on investment protection and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Partnership Agreement (TTIP) by 6 July! EDRi's answering guide takes you through the consultation and helps you answer the questions asked by the European Commission.
  http://edri.org/ec-consultation-isds-answering-guide/

• Teach yourself email self-defence!

  Learn how to defend yourself against surveillance! Free Software Foundation's email encryption tutorial is now available in several languages.
  https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html

Agenda

• 02.07.2014 Information Influx, the Institute for Information Law’s (IViR) 25th anniversary conference

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 08.07.2014 No TTIP! National tour & day of action

  Birmingham/Manchester/London, United Kingdom

• 15.07.2014 Open Knowledge Festival 2014

  Berlin, Germany

• 06.08.2014 Wikimania 2014

  London, United Kingdom

• 30.08.2014 Freiheit statt Angst

  Berlin, Germany

• 02.09.2014 The Ninth Annual IGF Meeting

  Istanbul, Turkey

From edri.org

• Freedom of information: EU Commission creates barriers for access to documents requests
• Google’s right to be forgotten – industrial scale misinformation?
• Germany opens investigation on Merkel's phone tap
• Belgian Big Brother Awards 2014: This year's winners are...
• Turkish government to acquire a tool to censor social media?
• Facebook adds third-party website data to ad targeting profiles
• Neelie Kroes’ campaign to kill net neutrality
• Report on Snowden - Government apathy but increased public concern
• ENDitorial: Turkish censorship – Swedish built, by royal appointment

Recommended reading

• The Irish High Court Facebook/PRISM case judgement (18.06.2014)
• It’s complicated: Facebook’s history of tracking you (17.06.2014)
• Meeting with Putin, industry leaders ditch users on digital rights (11.06.2014)
• BitTorrent shows you what the internet looks like without net neutrality; suggests a better way (10.06.2014)
• How the NSA violates international human rights standards (05.06.2014)
• Resolution on the revision of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (05.06.2014)
• US Communications Commission decision to fuel further fight in the EU (04.06.2014)
• Europe needs an ambitious digital agenda (03.06.2014)
• A critical look into the uncertain future of open mobile internet access in Europe (27.05.2014)
• Putting up walls around Finland's cyberspace (21.05.2014)
• Institutionally appropriate approaches to privacy: Striking a balance between judicial and administrative enforcement of privacy law (30.01.2014)

Recommended action

• Stop surveillance activities in Romania!

  Remind the Romanian government that privacy is a fundamental human right - demand the immediate rejection of the draft laws that are infringing the right of privacy of the Romanian citizens!
  http://coliberator.ro/petition/

• Join forces for online privacy!

  Support appealing the decision by the Irish authority before courts and demanding the enforcement of Facebook users' fundamental right to privacy!
  https://www.crowd4privacy.org/

• Reply to a public consultation on ISDS!

  Answer to a public consultation on investment protection and investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Partnership Agreement (TTIP) by 6 July! EDRi is currently preparing an answering guide that will soon be published on our website.
  http://trade.ec.europa.eu/consultations/index.cfm?consul_id=179

• Reply to the FCC consultation on Net neutrality!

  Protect and promote the open internet - Submit your comments to the FCC consultation on Net neutrality by 15 July!
  http://www.fcc.gov/openinternet

Agenda

• 19.06.2014 FRRIICT Final Event – How do we innovate responsibly in a digital world?

  London, United Kingdom

• 02.07.2014 Information Influx, the Institute for Information Law’s (IViR) 25th anniversary conference

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 08.07.2014 No TTIP! National tour & day of action

  Birmingham/Manchester/London, United Kingdom

• 15.07.2014 Open Knowledge Festival 2014

  Berlin, Germany

• 06.08.2014 Wikimania 2014

  London, United Kingdom

• 30.08.2014 Freiheit statt Angst

  Berlin, Germany

From edri.org

• Anniversary of Snowden revelations: The year we fight back
• Denmark: Data retention is here to stay despite the CJEU ruling
• Google takes the first steps to comply with European Court ruling
• Torrenz.eu suspended, but restored in absence of court order
• Social media in key role in the Balkans floods - incited censorship
• EC's Scoreboard 2014: Broadband access improved, challenges remain
• Interplay between data protection, competition law & consumer rights
• Highest court rules YouTube ban violates freedom of expression
• Citizens demonstrate against data retention in Switzerland

Recommended reading

• Egypt's police seek ability to monitor social media for signs of dissent (02.6.2014)
• Post-Snowden: the economics of surveillance (27.05.2014)
• GP organization VPHuisartsen brings Dutch switching point to court in fundamental court case on health information exchange system design and consent (25.05.2014)
• "Let's not talk about it": how the mass surveillance debate was silenced in Romania (27.05.2014)
• Council of the European Union cyber-policy roadmap (07.05.2014)
• Estonia exercise shows NATO's growing worry about cyber attacks (27.05.2014)
• Russia's Hashtag Activism in Ukraine (23.05.2014)
• Facebook narrows audience that sees new users' first posts (22.05.2014)

Recommended action

• Surveillance is not freedom

  Remind president Barack Obama that mass surveillance and freedom do not go together - Publish your picture with hashtags #ObamaPL and #25latwolnosci!
  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/polish-ngo-obama-surveillance-not-freedom

• Don't Spy On Us

  Take action against mass state surveillance of our private communications!
  https://www.dontspyonus.org.uk/org

• Reset The Net

  Run the splash screen on your website in protest on June 5th, to take a stand for privacy and to start making mass surveillance too hard for any government.
  https://www.resetthenet.org/

Agenda

• 04.06.2014 Le Big Data – Café Numérique

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.06.2014 Caméras de surveillance et vie privée

  Liege, Belgium

• 07.06.2014 Don’t Spy On Us: Day of Action

  London, United Kingdom

• 12.06.2014 EuroDIG – European Dialogue on Internet Governance

  Berlin, Germany

• 19.06.2014 FRRIICT Final Event – How do we innovate responsibly in a digital world?

  London, United Kingdom

• 02.07.2014 Information Influx, the Institute for Information Law’s (IViR) 25th anniversary conference

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

From edri.org

• EC adopts Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline
• Legal analysis of the Data Retention ruling of the European Court
• Spain: social media to be censored? “Not everything is appropriate”
• Finnish Parliament argued over the copyright initiative
• Artist collective threatened with legal action for Google Nest spoof
• ENDitorial: Google Spain vs AEPD – the cup is half full

Recommended reading

• Privacy evaluation: what empirical research on users’ valuation of personal data tells us (20.05.2014)
• EFF: The Internet is embracing privacy and transparency (only in Italian, 19.05.2014)
• Countdown to the End of Twitter in Russia (16.05.2014)
• Google faces no EU-level fines if it ignores 'right to be forgotten' verdict (16.05.2014)
• Time to modernise trade rules for the global digital economy (16.05.2014)
• Anti netneutrality campaign three times more than the pro neutrality (only in French, 17.05.2014)
• EU-US clash over financial services in TTIP (15.05.2014)
• Big Data used to better distribute copyright in Ireland (only in French, 13.05.2014)
• Murder trial of slain protester in Turkey live-tweeted (12.05.2014)
• Facebook, Google and personal data: What’s yours worth? (12.05.2014)
• Security Analysis of the Estonian Internet Voting System
• Parliamentary supervision of military intelligence has to be enhanced (only in Finnish, 14.05.2014)
• Draft Impact Assessment on the "modernisation of the EU copyright acquis" (08.05.2014)
• FCC hears the public outcry for net neutrality, continues to consider pay-to-play rules (15.05.2014)

Recommended action

• Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!

  The time has come to make your vote count! If you haven't signed up yet, do it now, check which candidate in your region supports the Charter, and go and vote in the European elections this week, to make sure your digital civil rights will be defended for the next five years!
  https://www.wepromise.eu

• Dear FFC – Defend net neutrality!

  Raise your voice and say no to regulations that will turn Internet Service Providers into gatekeepers to their subscribers!
  https://www.dearfcc.org/

Agenda

• 04.06.2014 Le Big Data – Café Numérique

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.06.2014 Caméras de surveillance et vie privée

  Liege, Belgium

• 07.06.2014 Don’t Spy On Us: Day of Action

  London, United Kingdom

• 12.06.2014 EuroDIG – European Dialogue on Internet Governance

  Berlin, Germany

• 19.06.2014 FRRIICT Final Event – How do we innovate responsibly in a digital world?

  London, United Kingdom

• 02.07.2014 Information Influx, the Institute for Information Law’s (IViR) 25th anniversary conference

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

From edri.org

• Slovak Constitutional Court suspends data retention legislation
• Belgian Big Brother Awards 2014: The nominees
• ISDS threatens privacy and reform of copyright and patent law
• Turkey: Twitter ban lifted, YouTube still blocked
• Polish attempt at a “transparency report”
• Norwegian Intelligence Service acquires supercomputer
• Copyright meets broadcasting in Geneva
• Swiss data retention visualisation
• ENDitorial: NETmundial, multistakeholderism and fair process

Recommended reading

• Antivirus is dead, says maker of Norton Antivirus (06.05.2014)
• Panel looks at ethical implications of Big Data in health (05.05.2014)
• Proposed Mexican telecom law would be a disaster for Internet freedom (05.05.2014)
• “Pavlovian password management” aims to change sloppy habits (05.05.2014)
• Everyone is under surveillance now, says whistleblower Edward Snowden (03.05.2014)
• The JNC Response to the NETmundial Outcome Document (03.05.2014)
• FCC: Let's discuss net neutrality together (only in Italian, 02.05.2014)
• Russia orders bloggers to “register” (24.04.2014)

Recommended action

• Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!

  If you are running as candidate for the European election, to join the 322 candidates who have already signed the ten-point Charter, send email to sign at wepromise.eu. Citizens, promise to vote for candidates who have signed!
  https://www.wepromise.eu

• Help testing Privacy Badger!

  Privacy Badger is a browser add-on, for Firefox and Chrome, launched by EDRi member the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.
  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/privacy-badger

Agenda

• 04.06.2014 Le Big Data – Café Numérique

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.06.2014 Caméras de surveillance et vie privée

  Liege, Belgium

• 07.06.2014 Don’t Spy On Us: Day of Action

  London, United Kingdom

• 12.06.2014 EuroDIG – European Dialogue on Internet Governance

  Berlin, Germany

• 19.06.2014 FRRIICT Final Event – How do we innovate responsibly in a digital world?

  London, United Kingdom

• 02.07.2014 Information Influx, the Institute for Information Law’s (IViR) 25th anniversary conference

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

From edri.org

• Microsoft terms of service – a half-step forward
• ORG and DigiGes launch campaigns for the European elections
• Google modifies ToS: “automated systems analyse your content”
• Is Commissioner Malmström accusing herself of violating EU law?
• Madrid Court rules P2P legal in landmark case against record labels
• Big Brother Awards Germany 2014
• ENDitorial: Why did MEP McCarthy fail to vote to protect children?

Recommended reading

• Google Maps Russia claims Crimea for the federation (22.04.2014)
• Gender equality: the Senate further extends extra-judicial online censorship (18.04.2014)
• EU External Freedom of Expression Policy (15.04.2014)
• Transparency Reports Database
• Europe’s new privacy supremo criticizes the US and commits to building EU harmonisation
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)6 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on a Guide to human rights for Internet users (17.04.2014)
• Are national data retention laws within the scope of the Charter? (20.04.2014)
• Skopje: fundamental freedoms respected, but campaign playing field not level (14.04.2014)
• NSA denies report that it knew about Heartbleed from the start (11.04.2014)
• The amount of the levy payable for making private copies of a protected work may not take unlawful reproductions into account (10.04.2014)
• Google buys “atmospheric satellite” builder Titan Aerospace (14.04.2014)
• Data Mining: a study points out obstacles of copyright in Europe (only in French, 11.04.2014)
• Will Russia Regulate Blogs Like Mass Media? (12.04.2014)
• La Quadrature du Net writes to several ministers (only in French, 10.04.2014)

Recommended action

• Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!

  If you are running as candidate for the European election, to join the 188 candidates who have already signed the ten-point Charter, send email to sign at wepromise.eu. Citizens, promise to vote for candidates who have signed!
  https://www.wepromise.eu

• Copy-me: a webseries about copying

  Support production of an educational webseries on copyright issues!
  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/copy-me-a-webseries-about-copying--3#home

Agenda

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

• 28.04.2014 OER14: building communities of open practice

  Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• 06.05.2014 re:publica 2014: Into the wild

  Berlin, Germany

• 04.06.2014 Le Big Data – Café Numérique

  Brussels, Belgium

• 04.06.2014 Caméras de surveillance et vie privée

  Liege, Belgium

From edri.org

• ECJ: Data retention directive contravenes European law
• Net Neutrality – What happens next?
• Turkey removes Twitter ban following court decision
• UK adds format shifting and parody to copyright laws
• Google fined for Street View violating privacy in Italy
• Commission opens investor-to-state dispute settlement consultation
• Human rights orgs form coalition against surveillance exports
• Data Retention ruled invalid: what does this mean for Kosovo?
• OHCHR consultation in connection with GA Resolution 68 167

Recommended reading

• Malmström: There won´t probably be a new directive (only in Swedish, 08.04.2014)
• Tech entrepreneur: 'EU politics is the ultimate social media turnoff' (03.04.2014)
• EU politicians 'overwhelmed' by power shift to social media (02.04.2014)
• Netflix operates from Luxembourg to serve France (only in French, 02.03.2014)
• Private Dropbox folders emptied for piracy? Nothing new (only in French 31.03.2014)
• TTIP: Text of the treaty will be published after the signinig (26.03.2014)
• How Russians Are Outsmarting Internet Censorship (25.03.2014)

Recommended action

• Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!

  If you are running as candidate for the European election, to join the 133 candidates who have already signed the ten-point Charter, send email to sign at wepromise.eu. Citizens, promise to vote for candidates who have signed!
  https://www.wepromise.eu

• The Open Society Documentary Photography Project "Watching You, Watching Me: Photography in an Age of Surveillance"

  Photographers and artists with interest to culture, concept, mechanisms, and consequences of surveillance, submit your application before 1 May.
  http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/moving-walls-22-call-proposal-20140401.pdf

Agenda

• 11.04.2014 Big Brother Awards Germany

  Bielefeld, Germany

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

• 28.04.2014 OER14: building communities of open practice

  Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• 06.05.2014 re:publica 2014: Into the wild

  Berlin, Germany

• 04.06.2014 Le Big Data – Café Numérique

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Turkey blocks Twitter
• IFPI calls for increased censorship of alleged illegal sites
• Russia accused for blocking news sites criticising Putin
• UK privacy groups file complaint on medical data in Google Cloud
• Macedonia bans gambling, raises concern over Internet censorship
• Extensive surveillance in the draft Finnish cyber intelligence law
• ENDitorial: Microsoft's terms of service strike again
• ENDitorial: FAQ: Open Internet provisions in the Telecoms Single Market Regulation

Recommended reading

• ICANN Reform: Recommendations (20.03.2014)
• Lawmakers get caught parroting copyright lobby (18.03.2014)
• Virgin Airways moves from ‘cool’ to creepy as it forces Google Glass

Recommended action

• Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!

  - if you are a candidate, promise to respect the Charter and send an
  email to sign at wepromise.eu
  - if you are a citizen, promise to vote: http://wepromise.eu
  http://wepromise.eu

• RESPECT

  Survey on surveillance and privacy in Europe for an EU research project
  https://respect.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7UKP4B8N6mXfZfn

Agenda

• 26.03.2014 Document Freedom Day 2014

• 31.03.2014 2014 Digital Library Conference

  Jasna, Slovakia

• 05.04.2014 Ausser Reichweite – Outside the Range

  Berlin, Germany

• 11.04.2014 Big Brother Awards Germany

  Bielefeld, Germany

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

From edri.org

• The EC consultation on the review of EU copyright rules is over
• Internet censorship and surveillance in Turkey
• Danish government plans to create a Center for Cybersecurity with privacy-invasive powers
• Facebook subject to German data protection law, court rules
• European Parliament votes on the Data Protection Reform and the report on Mass surveillance
• Enemies of the Internet 2014: entities at the heart of censorship and surveillance
• Macedonian Media Freedom in freefall
• US wants to undermine privacy in TTIP negotiations
• Belgian NGO’s challenging the data retention law

Recommended reading

• Liberal MEP: Open, competitive neutral internet is “communism”
• Conducting privacy impact assessments: code of practice
• Royston ANPR “ring of steel”
• Getty Images allows free embed of 35 million photographs:
• Norwegian ISP enters into paid peering agreement with Netflix
• Norway ISP Ends Net Neutrality Support

Recommended action

• Call, fax or email your MEPs in the ITRE committee in order to keep Network Neutrality

  http://edri.org/net-neutrality-primary-document-source/
  http://edri.org/bad-leadership-kill-open-internet-europe/
  http://savetheinternet.eu/

• Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!

  - if you are a candidate, promise to respect the Charter and send an
  email to sign at wepromise.eu
  - if you are a citizen, promise to vote: http://wepromise.eu
  http://wepromise.eu

Agenda

• 26.03.2014 Document Freedom Day 2014

• 31.03.2014 2014 Digital Library Conference

  Jasna, Slovakia

• 05.04.2014 Ausser Reichweite – Outside the Range

  Berlin, Germany

• 11.04.2014 Big Brother Awards Germany

  Bielefeld, Germany

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

• 24.04.2014 SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries

  Barcelona, Spain

From edri.org

• New EDRi booklet - human rights and privatised law enforcement
• Merkel wants “Safe Communication Networks” for the EU
• German ministers and Wikileaks on the NSA surveillance list
• Net neutrality in the European Parliament – what is happening?
• The Turkish Government is trying to justify Internet censorship
• Linking content does not infringe copyright says ECJ
• EC on global internet governance: do as we say, not as we do
• Remember: Giancarlo Livraghi

Recommended reading

• EDRi: How the Commission is out-manoeuvring the European Parliament to undermine net neutrality (26.02.2014)
• EU hosts majority of 'notorious' pirate websites (13.02.2014)
• After Snowden Leaks, Is a Promise Enough to Protect Digital Rights in Europe? (updated) (21.04.2014)
• „Really Open Education” – reflections from CC policy debate (26.02.2014)

Recommended action

• Let's fix EU copyright!

  The European Commission is thinking about the future of copyright in the
  EU, and your input can push them into the right direction.
  New deadline: 5.03.2014
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/
  Or answer just the four questions:
  https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/tell-europe-your-views-on-copyright
  Answer in Polish
  http://konsultacje.prawokultury.pl/pl/
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/

• Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!

  - if you are a candidate, promise to respect the Charter and send an
  email to sign at wepromise.eu
  - if you are a citizen, promise to vote: http://wepromise.eu
  http://wepromise.eu

Agenda

• 28.02.2014 Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture

  Vienna, Austria

• 03.03.2014 RightsCon: Silicon Valley

  San Francisco, California, USA

• 26.03.2014 Document Freedom Day 2014

• 31.03.2014 2014 Digital Library Conference

  Jasna, Slovakia

• 05.04.2014 Ausser Reichweite – Outside the Range

  Berlin, Germany

• 11.04.2014 Big Brother Awards Germany

  Bielefeld, Germany

From edri.org

• 11 February 2014 – The Day We Fought Back Mass Surveillance
• Hacktivists targeted by British spies
• German govt and intelligence agencies face penal charges for spying
• Italian Supreme Court: Search engines are just hosting providers
• Google France published CNIL’s fine on its homepage
• European Parliament vote on Collective Rights Management Directive
• Success or failure of the W3C’s DNT working group?
• Russia wants to ban Bitcoin?
• ENDitorial: We promise. What’s the point?

Recommended reading

• Handbook on European data protection law
• European Commission to pursue role as honest broker in future global negotiations on Internet Governance (12.02.2014)
• What happens with digital rights management in the real world? (5.02.2014)
• Baywatch: Two approaches to measure the effects of blocking access to The Pirate Bay
• Finnish police probe Wikipedia's donation requests (7.02.2014)
• Domain Registrar Liable for Torrent Site Infringement, Court Rules (6.02.2014)
• Open Data policies at EU level: state of play and outlook for 2014 (4.02.2014)

Recommended action

• Save Net Neutrality in Europe!

  Call, fax or email your MEPs in the ITRE committee in order to keep Network Neutrality
  http://edri.org/net-neutrality-primary-document-source/
  http://edri.org/bad-leadership-kill-open-internet-europe/
  
  http://savetheinternet.eu/

• Wepromise.eu

  Wepromise.eu - Vote for your digital rights!
  - if you are a candidate, promise to respect the Charter and send an
  email to sign at wepromise.eu
  - if you are a citizen, promise to vote: http://wepromise.eu
  
  http://wepromise.eu

Agenda

• 18.02.2014 Really Open Education

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.02.2014 Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture

  Vienna, Austria

• 03.03.2014 RightsCon: Silicon Valley

  San Francisco, California, USA

• 26.03.2014 Document Freedom Day 2014

• 31.03.2014 2014 Digital Library Conference

  Jasna, Slovakia

• 05.04.2014 Ausser Reichweite – Outside the Range

  Berlin, Germany

From edri.org

• EP Committees: Broadly positive votes on net neutrality
• The Ukrainian Parliament decides to reject the anti-protest bill
• Dutch Court finds Pirate Bay blocking disproportionate
• Data protection package delayed after the Euro elections
• Spain court orders an ISP to disconnect a user for P2P file sharing
• UK government must justify its large-scale surveillance activities
• Passwords lost for 16 million email accounts
• ECJ: Circumventing protection systems may be lawful in certain cases
• ENDitorial: European Commission boxing clever on TTIP

Recommended reading

• Angry Birds and 'leaky' phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data (28.01.2014)
• Snowden leaks: GCHQ 'spied on Facebook and YouTube' (28.01.2014)
• CoE event "After Snowden: using law and technology to counter snooping" (28.01.2014) Webcast available at:
• Netherlands: Pirate Bay Uploader Can’t be Criminally Prosecuted, Court Rules (29.01.2014)
• Rating Obama's NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained (17.01.2014)
• To improve IT security, EP demands open source (15.01.2014)
• Graduated Response Policy and the Behavior of Digital Pirates: Evidence from the French Three-Strike (Hadopi) Law (16.01.2014)

Recommended action

• Let's fix EU copyright

  The European Commission is thinking about the future of copyright in the
  EU, and your input can push them into the right direction.
  Deadline: 5.02.2014
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/

• The day we fight back against mass surveillance

  11 February 2014
  
  
  https://thedaywefightback.org/

Agenda

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 18.02.2014 Really Open Education

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.02.2014 Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture

  Vienna, Austria

• 03.03.2014 RightsCon: Silicon Valley

  San Francisco, California, USA

• 26.03.2014 Document Freedom Day 2014

• 31.03.2014 2014 Digital Library Conference

  Jasna, Slovakia

From edri.org

• European Commission wants to know if web browsing should be illegal
• Google was fined by French and Spanish Data Protection Authorities
• European Parliament’s draft report condemns US & UK intelligence services’ mass surveillance
• UK ISP Filtering causes collateral damages
• Turkey: Internet censorship is getting harsher
• Academics and authors stand against mass surveillance
• Digital Rights sessions at the CPDP Conference
• ENDitorial: AT&T’s “sponsored data” – a toll-road to nowhere

Recommended reading

• EU Justice Commissioner Reding wants an EU spy agency. Has she lost her mind or her morals? (13.01.2014)
• Your mobile phone is watching YOU, writes DAVID DAVIS: Campaigning former Shadow Home Secretary's own phone log reveals the insidious tracking of our every move (12.01.2014)
• New DDoS Attacks on Websites Monitoring Ukrainian #Euromaidan Protests (12.01.2014)
• Italy puts Free Software first in public sector (14.01.2014)

Recommended action

• Save the Internet

  Your freedom online is threatened by EU proposals. The fight for an open Internet is happening right now in Brussels.
  
  http://savetheinternet.eu/en/

• Let's fix EU copyright

  The European Commission is thinking about the future of copyright in the EU, and your input can push them into the right direction.
  
  http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/

• BoF looking for an advocate

  EDRi member Bits of Freedom (Netherlands) is looking for an experienced
  legal professional who is specialised in digital civil rights and would
  like to join the fight for Internet freedom.
  More information (only in Dutch):
  https://www.bof.nl/2014/01/09/bits-of-freedom-zoekt-gepassioneerde-en-ervaren-jurist-vacature/

Agenda

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 18.02.2014 Really Open Education

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.02.2014 Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture

  Vienna, Austria

• 03.03.2014 RightsCon: Silicon Valley

  San Francisco, California, USA

From edri.org

• Advocate General condemns massive storage of communications data
• France: Real-time interception of e-communications by security forces
• EU Data protection regulation stalled again
• Italian telecom authority gets the power to block websites
• Romania: re-criminalising defamation?

Recommended reading

• Leaked proposal for EU-US trade deal increases business power in decision-making (16.12.2013)
• NSA uses advertisers’ cookies to track specific web browsers - report (11.12.2013)
• LobbyControl accuses EU of censoring data retention debate (8.12.2013)
• Commission launches pilot to open up publicly funded research data (16.12.2013)
• A million first steps (12.12.2013)

Recommended action

• Review of the EU copyright rules

  Deadline: 5 February 2013
  http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/index_en.htm

• Privacy and surveillance RESPECT project survey

  If you are interested in privacy and surveillance then please take 15 minutes or less to fill up the questionnaire below.
  
  This survey is part of RESPECT – a collaborative project with
  researchers from 21 institutions in 15 countries, co-funded by the
  European Union under the FP7 programme. As a multilingual web-based
  questionnaire, it aims to gather the views of citizens from all
  countries of the EU about the cost, convenience and success of
  surveillance in the reduction, detection and prosecution of crimes.
  
  The project results will be put in the public domain on the RESPECT
  website in 2015 and the raw data itself would be put in the public domain for all to use in 2017.
  
  All responses for the survey are anonymous and no personal details such as your name, e-mail address or IP address will be processed.
  
  http://bit.ly/surveyrespectproject

Agenda

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 18.02.2014 Really Open Education

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.02.2014 Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture

  Vienna, Austria

From edri.org

• ENDitorial: Lessons From The Failure Of Licences For Europe
• Bits of Freedom presents policy package against mass surveillance
• No Warrant Internet Spying By French Authorities
• Ireland: Google Ordered To Remove Knowledge Graph Result
• ECJ Advocate General: Forcing ISPs To Block Websites Could Be Legal
• Google In Breach Of The Dutch Data Protection Act
• Paris court orders search engines and ISPs to block websites
• European Parliament Will Rule On Net Neutrality
• “Rebuilding Trust In EU – US Data Flows” – Some Lowlights

Recommended reading

• Swiss ISPs Condemn “Useless” Blocking Proposals From Secret Piracy Talks (25.11.2013)
• Third Committee Approves Text Titled ‘Right to Privacy in the Digital Age’, as It Takes Action on 18 Draft Resolutions
• International Olympic Committee Demands 2014 Olympics Piracy Takedowns & Blocks “Within Minutes” (21.11.2013)
• Vodafone Iceland hacked: 70k client accounts made available on p2p networks (30.11.2013)
• Facebook trashes its “principles” as it blocks human rights pages in Pakistan (28.11.2013)
• Supreme Court of Belgium Orders ISPs to Police the Internet for Pirate Bay Proxies (20.11.2013)

Recommended action

• EDRi looks for a Community and Communications Manager

  Deadline for applications: 6 December 2013
  http://www.edri.org/Community-Communications-Manager

Agenda

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 18.02.2014 Really Open Education

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.02.2014 Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture

  Vienna, Austria

From edri.org

• European Parliament to decide on the future of the open Internet
• TPP May Be Worse Than ACTA
• Mapping The Public Domain – A Priority For France
• Bogus hearing of the UK intelligence agencies
• EDPS: Still A Lot Of Work To Be Done
• Search Engines Pushed To Inefficient Internet Filtering
• Microsoft And Skype May Continue To Send Europeans’ Data To US
• Failure Of “Licenses For Europe”

Recommended reading

• Joint-stakeholder statement on MEP Castex’ report on private copying levies
• Waiting for Freedom of the Press in Bulgaria
• Italian Court Orders ISPs to Block Russia’s Facebook and Rapidgator
• CoE: Ministerial conference calls for effective safeguards against electronic mass surveillance
• “The Evil Will Be Punished”: Russia Establishes Federal Service For Copyright

Recommended action

• EDRi looks for a Community and Communications Manager

  Deadline for applications: 6 December 2013
  http://www.edri.org/Community-Communications-Manager

• Will the EU Parliament Enable Discrimination Online or Uncompromising Net Neutrality?

  Citizens must contact the rapporteur and Members of the ITRE committee, and urge them to ensure the European Parliament guarantees a genuine and unconditional Net neutrality principle.
  http://www.laquadrature.net/en/will-the-eu-parliament-enable-discrimination-online-or-uncompromising-net-neutrality

Agenda

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 18.02.2014 Really Open Education

  Brussels, Belgium

• 28.02.2014 Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture

  Vienna, Austria

From edri.org

• EU Council worries that data protection reform is too fast
• NSA's long data collection arm reaches everybody
• The Russian govt seeks to increase its control over the Internet
• Slovakia: Court orders an ISP to stop breaching Net Neutrality
• Europe v Facebook’s Irish complaint again on the table
• ENDitorial: EP draft report on private copy levies – serious or satire?

Recommended reading

• EDRi paper on Net Neutrality (11.2013)
• Privacy and Surveillance are the Elephant in the Room at OGP Summit (1.11.2013)
• Tim Berners-Lee demands countries deliver on open data promises (31.10.2013)
• Registrars Clash at Verisign Over Seized “Pirate” Site Domains (3.11.2013)
• Germany and Brazil introduce UN resolution affirming right to privacy, condemning mass surveillance (1.11.2013)
• Russian Facebook Not Responsible For Users’ Pirate Music Uploads (26.10.2013)

Recommended action

• The Assises de la Justice seeks to generate ideas

  The Assises de la Justice - a forum on EU justice policies - seeks to generate ideas which will contribute directly to shaping the European Union's justice policy over the coming years. The Commission is looking for contributions from anyone with an interest in the issues which will be discussed during the conference, and more broadly on the future justice policy of the European Union.
  
  You are invited to submit your contributions to this debate until the end of 2013. In order to feed the debate during the Assises de la justice, preliminary contributions should be submitted by Monday 11 November.
  
  See also discussion paper on fundamental rights:
  http://ec.europa.eu/justice/events/assises-justice-2013/files/fundamental_rights_en.pdf
  http://ec.europa.eu/justice/events/assises-justice-2013/discussion_papers_en.htm

Agenda

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

• 18.02.2014 Really Open Education

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Data protection vote – one step forward, two big steps backwards
• Tough negotiations for the law enforcement data protection directive
• France is demanding explanations from the US over NSA surveillance
• ECtHR: Internet news portal liable for the offensive online comments
• Increased level of online censorship in Italy
• European Court of Justice: Fingerprints in electronic passport are OK
• After 3 years: French authority Hadopi keeps proving its uselessness
• Skype is investigated in Luxembourg for its relations to NSA

Recommended reading

• MEPs call for suspension of EU-US bank data deal in response to NSA snooping (23.10.2013)
• Russia: FSB wants more access to Internet users’ information (21.10.2013)
• Will The Canada-EU Trade Agreement Harm Our Freedoms Online? (20.10.2013)
• A Copyright Masquerade - How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms by Monica Horten (10.2013)
• Results of the consultation on Open Research Data
• Working Document 02/2013 providing guidance on obtaining consent for cookies (WP208)
• 100 questions on surveillance to Polish authorities (10.2013)

Recommended action

• Say your views on the Europe & the Internet in a global context (deadline: 8 November 2013)

  Deadline: 8 November 2013
  
  https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/content/europe-and-internet-global-context

• Internet Governance: I want your views! (9.10.2013)

  Internet Governance: I want your views! (9.10.2013)
  http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/internet-governance-i-want-your-views

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Open letter by 23 European organisations in support of Snowden’s nomination for the Sakharov prize
• LSE Report: File-Sharing Is Rather Beneficial To Music Industry
• Has Switzerland Become A Center Of Spy Technology Exports?
• The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics under strong surveillance
• UK surveillance activities have been challenged at the ECtHR
• Joint letter on Market Surveillance and Product Safety Regulation
• Snowden deserves the 2013 Sakharov Prize
• The Lobbyists' Charter
• ENDitorial: Licences for Europe – user generated content and Commission-generated users

Recommended reading

• EDRi Reponse to Green Paper Preparing for a Fully Converged Audiovisual World: (26.09.2013)
• Belgian ‘Royal Decree’ Requires ISPs To Log All Sorts Of Info For A Year (9.10.2013)
• What’s wrong with ANPR – No CCTV’s report on number plate cameras in UK (10.2013)
• German Federal Intelligence Service taps up to 25 providers in Germany (6.10.2013)
• Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C (2.10.2013)
• Italy: Draft Regulation on Copyright Protection on Electronic Communication Networks (1.10.2013)

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Protect privacy against unchecked Internet surveillance!
• Belgium ISP under cyberattack by British intelligence
• The Russian website blacklist shows its limits
• “Our Data, Our Lives”: The 2013 Public Voice Conference in Warsaw
• Snowden nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize
• FBI was controlling servers located in France
• Spain: New penal sanctions proposed for alleged illegal linking
• Surveillance scandal in discussion at the United Nations
• ENDitorial: The DNT ship is listing

Recommended reading

• New Statewatch Journal: Informants, spies and subversion (08.2013)
• Commission launches 'Opening up Education' to boost innovation and digital skills in schools and universities (25.09.2013)
• Pirate Bay Blocking Orders Should Be Overturned Under EU Law, ISPs Argue (19.09.2013)
• Viviane Reding: Data protection reform: restoring trust and building the digital single market (17.09.2013)
• Internet intermediaries: Dilemma of liability (29.08.2013)

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• US and UK intelligence campaign against encryption
• Net Neutrality threatened by the Commission’s draft regulation
• EDRi and FREE want an end to lawless surveillance
• PACE: Resolution on massive eavesdropping in Europe
• More than 20 000 protest in Berlin against surveillance
• German newspapers sued for pointing out an alleged illegal site
• LIBE inquiry on surveillance
• ENDitorial: EU Parliament wastes time and money on gambling? You bet!

Recommended reading

• Police data abuses difficult to safeguard despite new systems (6.09.2013)
• Fighting against a censorship machine (4.09.2013)
• Digital Personae and Profiles in Law: Protecting Individuals' Rights in Online Contexts (21.08.2013)

Recommended action

• EC Consultation

  Consultation on guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and charging for the re-use of public sector information
  https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/consultation-guidelines-recommended-standard-licences-datasets-and-charging-re-use-public

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Data privacy issues following PRISM affair
• UK authorities press to get hold of Snowden affair’s documents
• Macedonia: Demand to retract proposed media legislation
• "Right to Remix": Initiative for a European Copyright Reform
• The Finnish Supreme court rules on blocking anti-censorship site
• New Russian copyright law raises freedom of expression concerns

Recommended reading

• Updated Net Neutrality timeline
• Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig (23.08.2013)
• Open Data: Postponed or unfulfilled promises of Czech ministries? (21.08.2013)
• No European net neutrality legislation after all (19.08.2013)
• Filters 'not a silver bullet' that will stop perverts, warns Interpol chief (4.08.2013)

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Irish DPA: OK for Facebook and Apple to share personal data to NSA!?!
• Finally! Safe Harbour Agreement under question by EU commissioner
• Turkey: Social media and our rights
• How much longer before web accessibility?
• Ireland: champion in requesting retained traffic data
• Over 100 global groups make a principled stand against surveillance
• UK: Vehicle plate recognition video system ruled illegal
• ENDitorial: Belgian railways – a case study in bad internet security

Recommended reading

• Recommended reading also available in Deutsch:
• OSCE media freedom representative warns UK, Internet filtering ineffective, open to abuse (23.07.2013)
• Report Challenges Assumptions On IP Valuation And Cybercrime (07.2013)
• PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies (26.07.2013)
• EDPS on smart borders: Smart borders: key proposal is costly, unproven and intrusive (19.07.2013)

Recommended action

• Sign the Open letter to stop surveillance initiated by EDRi member Digitale Gesellschaft (Germany)

  This article is also available in Deutsch:
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731
  http://www.stopsurveillance.org/en/

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• The PRISM scandal gets bigger
• Data retention: "We ask the Court to rule in favour of Freedom"
• Austria: Outsourcing data retention obligations to the US
• Unanimous JURI vote on Collective Rights Management directive
• Finland: A new citizens initiative - Lex Snowden
• The French three strikes system gave up on Internet disconnection
• EC notice & action directive to come out of the drawer?
• Closed environments locking down consumers’ rights
• ENDitorial:Leaked telecoms Regulation with or without net neutrality?

Recommended reading

• This recommended reading is also available in Deutsch
• Estonia: E-voting source code made public (12.07.2013)
• Open Letter on transparency to President of the European Parliament (16.07.2013)

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• The Washington Statement – In support of data protection
• Prism, Tempora... and ECtHR?
• Could web browsing infringe copyright?
• http://edri.org/edrigramnumber11-13web-browsing-copyright/
• Future of Copyright Contest 2013
• European Court of Justice data retention cases to be heard on 9 July
• ENDitorial: EDRi letter on Licences for Europe

Recommended reading

• OSCE media freedom representative warns UK, Internet filtering ineffective, open to abuse (23.07.2013)
• Report Challenges Assumptions On IP Valuation And Cybercrime (07.2013)
• PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies (26.07.2013)
• EDPS on smart borders: Smart borders: key proposal is costly, unproven and intrusive (19.07.2013)

Recommended action

• Support the game "Data Dealer - Legal? Illegal? Whatever." at Kickstarter

  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cuteacute/data-dealer

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EDRi letter to the US Embassy on PRISM
• US agencies have unlimited access to Internet data
• The Spanish Police might use spying Trojans on individuals’ computers
• Media Freedom and Pluralism in Europe
• The EU PNR is delayed by MEPs, but the Russian PNR arrives
• The German Parliament urges the government to limit software patents
• Still no access to ACTA documents
• ENDitorial: #ResistSocialMedia in Turkey

Recommended reading

• The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus endorses EFF's objection against DRM in HTML5 (17.06.2013)
• European Commission Sector Guides on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (17.06.2013)
• Yes We Scan! Privacy Activists Protest Against PRISM and NSA Surveillance As President Obama Arrives in Berlin (18.06.2013)

Recommended action

• Subscribe to the monthly digital rights newsletter for Latin America and Caribbean

  Issue 0: http://www.digitalrightslac.net/tag/n0-062013/
  
  http://www.digitalrightslac.net/category/english/

• Respect my privacy

  http://www.respect-my-privacy.eu/

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Turkish demonstrations using social media despite censorship
• Neelie Kroes’ up-and-down evolution in the Net Neutrality issue
• Call for Action: Vote on the retention of air passenger data (PNR)
• Transborder data access: Strong critics on plans to extend CoE Cybercrime Treaty
• Macedonia: Freedom of expression endangered by new law
• Council of Europe to step up for Net Neutrality
• EDRi analysis on private copying levy
• Will the new data protection rules be even weaker than the old ones?
• EC goes after governments for not implementing data retention
• ENDitorial: Correction / Clarification regarding iCOMP

Recommended action

• German petition for a strong data protection regulation You can sign the petition here: (only in German)

  https://www.campact.de/eu-datenschutz/appell/teilnehmen/

• Modern Poland Foundation has announced the second edition of Future of Copyright Contest.

  "We are raising money for prizes and asking for preparing new works regarding the future of copyright. The work may be of any kind (text, video, audio), and of any genre (i.e. legal analysis, dystopia or utopia story, educational video – sky is the limit here), but it must address the general subject of the Future of Copyright. The deadline for submitting the works is 1st of July 2013, and the deadline for those who want to contribute financial through indieggogo is 7th of July."
  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/future-of-copyright-contest-2-0

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EU privacy reform: What you can do now
• TTIP - a brief victory of hope over experience
• Protests against the Net Neutrality violation in Germany
• Complaints against Irish DPA's lack of action against Facebook
• Apple’s privacy policy breaches German data protection laws
• Russia ratifies CoE Convention 108 on data protection
• Germany: Google must remove autocomplete harmful searches if notified
• ENDitorial: European Privacy Association - good, bad or simply misunderstood?

Recommended reading

• Neelie Kroes responds to EDRi and BEUC: Old mantras and political uncertainty for net neutrality in Europe (21.05.2013)
• Copyright in France: Wishful Thinking and Real Dangers (14.05.2013)
• See also Pierre Lescure report on culture at the digital era to French (only in French)
• Report finds Gardai snooping on celebrities and sports stars (20.05.2013)
• Data rape and the impending privacy apocalypse (10.05.2013)
• Latvia: Police Raid School Teacher for Uploading History Book for Students (20.05.2013)

Recommended action

• Provocative privacy game “Data Dealer” released!

  Legal, illegal, whatever? Provocative privacy game “Data Dealer” released!
  "Data Dealer" is a satirical online game about collecting and selling personal data. Players run all kinds of companies and online ventures - from dating sites and loyalty card systems to search engines and their own social web - and ruthlessly sell private information to clients of all kinds. Their growing data empires have to be defended against various threats, including competing players trying to hack into their databases, complaining citizens, critical media and pesky privacy activists. Data Dealer is a non-profit project, released under a Creative Commons license and based on HTML5 instead of Flash.
  http://datadealer.com/

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Launch of Nakedcitizens.eu
• LIBE EP Committee: No PNR data sharing within the EU
• Danish phone company kept call records for more than 10 years
• Greek justice to rule on blocking sites by ISPs
• Dutch police wants to hack their citizens' devices
• Google’s antitrust proposals under scrutiny
• Iceland’s Supreme Court lifted the financial blocking of Wikileaks
• ENDitorial: Last Call for the W3C Do Not Track process

Recommended reading

• Twenty years of a free, open web (30.04.2013)
• re:publica 2013 - Joe McNamee: Freedom of speech, nipples and the rule of law (6.05.2013)
• Global Coalition Of NGOs Call To Investigate & Disable FinFisher’s Espionage Equipment in Pakistan (3.05.2013)
• Global Coalition Of NGOs Call To Investigate & Disable FinFisher’s Espionage Equipment in Pakistan (3.05.2013)
• The Right to Share: Principles on Freedom of Expression and Copyright in the Digital Age (25.04.2013)
• The Sky is Rising (2013) Regional study of the entertainment industries [...]
• The Right to Blog (3.05.2013)
• The Right to Blog (3.05.2013)

Recommended action

• Don't let big businesses strip you of your privacy rights! Take control of your data!

  https://www.nakedcitizens.eu/

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EDRi and BEUC demand protection for Net Neutrality
• German ISP imposes data caps, discriminates in favour of own services
• Turkish pianist sentenced for comments on Twitter
• Facebook-funded “child protection” event turns into privacy bashing
• CleanIT is vague and dangerous according to CleanIT-funded study
• Commission promises better monitoring of “self-regulation” projects
• Big Brother Awards Germany 2013
• A Monster from Rome – huge crackdown action on "file-sharing"
• Finland: Common Sense in Copyright Law
• ENDitorial: MEPs propose web blocking yet again

Recommended reading

• Recommended Reading article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents (22.04.2013)
• UK: Browsing the Internet is a legitimate exception to copyright (19.04.2013)
• Travel Surveillance, Traveler Intrusion (televised forum on naked scanners and use of PNR data in Washington, DC, 2.04.2013) - Video
• Travel Surveillance, Traveler Intrusion (televised forum on naked scanners and use of PNR data in Washington, DC, 2.04.2013) - Slides

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Privacy campaign materials
• DMCA take down requests to DMCA take down requests
• Licences for Europe: Request to broaden the discussions
• French intelligence wants Wikipedia to delete online content
• Self-regulation: Irish police database - “some sort of social media”
• Skype and criminal law enforcement data requests in 2012
• DFRI asks EP President Schulz for missing ACTA documents
• European consumers attitudes on privacy
• Swedish police to increase its fight against file-sharing

Recommended reading

• Recommended Reading article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Google privacy policy: six European data protection authorities to launch coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions (2.04.2013)
• European data protection authorities clarify principle of purpose limitation (8.04.2013)
• Online Personal Data Processing and EU Data Protection Reform (8.04.2013)
• German Law Enforcement Access to Cloud Data in Foreign Jurisdictions, Including the U.S. (29.03.2013)
• And some books: Card declined: how Britain said no to ID cards, three times over, by SA Mathieson
• Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age, by Ian Brown and Christopher Marsden
• Research Handbook On Governance Of The Internet, edited by Ian Brown

Recommended action

• Recommended Action is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410

• 2013: EU consultations of importance to digital rights

  http://edri.org/2013-eu-consultations-of-importance-to-digital-rights/

• Defend your Privacy! - Stop Lobby War on new EU Privacy Law! Share this video and contact your MEPs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKZmQJQrTuY

• Vote on data retention of travel data (EU-PNR) – Contact your MEPs

  See also:
  http://pnr.vibe.at/
  http://www.nopnr.org/vote-on-data-retention-of-travel-data-eu-pnr-contact-your-meps/
  http://pnr.digitalegesellschaft.de/

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• A few days left to answer the IPRED consultation
• Civil society wants no intellectual property provisions in TAFTA
• Slovenia: Information Commissioner challenges the data retention law
• Spain: New draft law to increase copyright infringements penalties
• No intermediary liability for bloggers
• CryptoParty in Brussels
• Online piracy is not to be blamed for the drop in music revenues
• Is Facebook applying censorship?
• ENDitorial: Germany sees a "septimana horribilis" in Net politics

Recommended action

• Today, 27 March 2013, is the Document Freedom Day.

  In 30 countries around the world, activists are celebrating Open Standards on today's Document Freedom Day, an annual campaign to promote Open Standards. More than 50 groups are hosting events around the world, from Brussels to Nicaragua to Taiwan.
  http://www.documentfreedom.org/

• UK: Cameron, stop the Dangerous Blogs Bill.

  The Leveson regulations are being applied to UK websites – in ways that could catch more or less anyone who publishes a blog. Ordinary bloggers could be threatened with exemplary damages and costs. If this happens, small website publishers will face terrible risks, or burdensome regulation – and many may simply stop publishing.
  http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/leveson

• UK: Launch of medConfidential

  UK: Launch of medConfidential, a campaign organisation fighting for patient privacy
  Medical confidentiality in England is under unprecedented threat. New legislation that comes into force next month will permit the upload of identifiable patient data directly from family doctors' records to central systems, from which it will be sold and made available to researchers and private companies. Other developments include the creation of online patient records, and a proposal to create shared record systems across health and social care.
  http://medconfidential.org/

• Digital Agenda: Commission opens consultations on media freedom and pluralism and audiovisual media regulator independence

  Deadline: 14 June 2013
  See also:http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-267_en.htm
  
  https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/public-consultation-independent-report-hlg-media-freedom-and-pluralism

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EDRi at its 10th anniversary
• France slowly advances towards net neutrality?
• Ukrainian online editor beaten up for critical articles
• Article 29 WP takes the next step in its Google investigation
• Hadopi wants to turn to privatised enforcement measures
• Total transparency on ACTA and TAFTA documents
• ENDitorial: Porn, Parliament, Posturing, Politics and Privatised Policing

Recommended reading

• Recommended Reading is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• The Enemies of Internet 2013 (12.03.2013)
• Italian police investigate telecom data retention (6.03.2013)
• How Facebook could get you arrested (9.03.2013)
• Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime - UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna (draft, 9.03.2013)
• Privacy and data protection developments in 2013: Google, Facebook, Leveson and more (11.03.2013)

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EDRi celebrates its 10th anniversary
• EDRi's guide on how to answer the IPRED consultation
• Iceland Ministry of Interior wants to filter the Internet
• Simplistic draft EP “Written Declaration” on online child abuse
• European copyright scholars: hyperlinking is not public communication
• Controversial unitary patent court system signed by EU Ministers
• UK court: Google liable for comments posted on its Blogger platform
• Italian police blocks tumblr domain
• The British Phonographic Industry pushes ISPs to block more sites
• ENDitorial: European Financial Coalition against CP launched...again

Recommended reading

• Recommended Reading is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Industry Committee scrapes together a majority for a disastrous data protection opinion (20.02.2013)
• Hadopi and Internet Intermediaries: No to a French ACTA! (27.02.2013)
• Google raises privacy fears as personal details are released to app developers (25.02.2013)
• Google declares open war on Europe’s privacy rights (20.02.2013)
• API, PNR, threat assessments, and data-mining: Member States push for access to travellers' personal data for customs authorities (02.2013)
• French Publishers Forge Deal With Google, Breaking Ranks With Europe (18.02.2013)

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• Copyright: challenges of the digital era
• Most Internet users would use DNT settings if easily available
• US privacy groups believe US officials lobby to weaken EU privacy
• Dutch government maintains private copying-exception for downloading
• Denmark: Government postpones the data retention law evaluation
• Ancillary copyright law under discussion in Germany
• Human rights orgs ask OECD to investigate surveillance companies
• Big Brother Awards 2013 Bulgaria
• ENDitorial: Licences for Europe and fight club... only one rule

Recommended reading

• Recommended Reading is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EU: Protection of human rights in the EU "rarely a priority", says Human Rights Watch (02.2013)
• EU cyber security directive considered harmful (8.02.2013)

Recommended action

• Recommended Action: Support Your Privacy Rights

  http://edri.org/edrigramnumber11-3action/

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• An introduction to Data Protection
• EU governments keep increasing requests to Google for private data
• Finnish copyright law might be changed following crowdsourcing support
• German government intends to use FinFisher Spyware
• Slovenia has a net neutrality law
• Greater transparency and accountability of surveillance systems
• Kroes ignoring the problems on net neutrality?

Recommended reading

• Recommended Reading is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• RIP CleanIT (29.01.2013)
• Fear, uncertainty and doubt – the key threats to the fundamental right to privacy
• Copyright vs Freedom of Expression ECHR Judgment - Ashby Donald and others vs France (22.01.2013)
• US free to grab EU data on American clouds (28.01.2013)
• Study Maps the Emerging Ethics of File Sharing and Copyright Enforcement (15.01.2013)
• Letter to Skype about confidentiality concerns (24.01.2013)
• Identity Project tells UN Human Rights Committee that US violates the right to travel (8.01.2013)

Recommended action

• Recommended Action is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.2_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130207

• Sign The Brussels Privacy Declaration!

  On 24 January 2013, EDRi, Privacy International, EPIC and Bits of Freedom launched The Brussels Privacy Declaration during the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP) in Brussels.
  
  The declaration describes the concerns of civil society organizations as well as of academics and citizens about the data protection law reform and calls upon the European Parliament as and national governments to safeguards citizens' privacy rights.
  The declaration has been sent to MEPs and the European Commission on 28 January 2013 (Data Protection Day).
  
  The Brussels Privacy Declaration
  http://brusselsdeclaration.net/

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• EU PNR directive gets funding before being adopted
• Irish EU Council Presidency proposes destruction of right to privacy
• Data Retention in Austria: Constitutional Court turns to the CJEU
• Major data leak at the Belgium railway company
• French Minister asks US company to uphold France's values
• State German DPA threatens to fine Facebook for opposing anonymity
• Is the Commission’s report on Swift agreement biased?
• ENDitorial: Questions on the draft Directive on Cybersecurity Strategy

Recommended reading

• Recommended Reading is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Commission's own internal review condemned CleanIT's incoherence and cost (9.01.2013)
• European Parliament Data protection draft – compromise or compromised? (8.01.2013)
• Privacy by Design : Let’s be smart and implement it!
• Article 29 Data Protection Working Party: "European data protection Authorities launch Binding Corporate Rules for processors" (21.12.2012)

Agenda

• 25.10.2013 Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013

  Siegen, Germany

• 19.11.2013 Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration

  Berlin, Germany

• 27.12.2013 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress

  Hamburg, Germany

• 21.01.2014 Pre-CPDP annual NGO event on privacy & surveillance

  Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels

• 22.01.2014 CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective

  Brussels, Belgium

• 01.02.2014 FOSDEM 2014

  Brussels, Belgium

From edri.org

• ECtHR: Blocking Google Sites in Turkey breaches human rights
• WCIT: what happened and what it means for the Internet
• Innovation at risk in EU - the EU unitary patent adopted by EP
• EC decided: no need for more databases for law enforcement
• The European Parliament supports net neutrality
• Companies abuse a loophole in data protection law
• UK government said no to default filtering for online pornography
• Digitale Gesellschaft promotes net neutrality with Vodafail actions
• Export Controls for Digital Weapons
• ENDitorial: Global alliance against CP – no disconnect with reality?

Recommended reading

• Austrian Constitutional Court has reservations against data retention and turns to the CJEU (18.12.2012)
• "Voluntary enforcement" vs legal restrictions - what rules apply? (11.12.2012)
• During the past two weeks, EDRi participated in video-conferences organised by European Commission representatives in Dubai.
• UK: Social media guidelines for prosecutors welcomed but practical application remains to be seen (19.12.2012)
• Dear Facebook: Without the Commons, We Lose the Sharing Web (14.12.2012)
• ULD issues orders against Facebook because of mandatory real names (17.12.2012)
• Code of EU Online Rights (17.12.2012)