EDRi-Gram

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 CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action

  France, Paris

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

  Brussels, Belgium

• 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 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

• 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 Privacy: redefinition

  Warsaw, Poland

• 04.09.2014 Internet Ungovernance Forum

  Istanbul, Turkey

• 04.09.2014 Energise! Network! Mobilise!

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 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 Energise! Network! Mobilise!

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 04.09.2014 Privacy: redefinition

  Warsaw, Poland

• 04.09.2014 Internet Ungovernance Forum

  Istanbul, Turkey

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 Energise! Network! Mobilise!

  Belgrade, Serbia

• 04.09.2014 Privacy: redefinition

  Warsaw, Poland

• 04.09.2014 Internet Ungovernance Forum

  Istanbul, Turkey

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)

Recommended action

• Joining Forces for Online Privacy!

  This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219
  
  Europe vs. Facebook will soon reach the point where the Irish data protection authority will make a final and legally binding decision, effecting every user of Facebook. It is likely that the outcome will not really be in favour of the users but in favour of Facebook.
  
  Your donation can make a difference beyond the individual case of Facebook. The case has good chances to become a landmark decision, influencing the future of online privacy in Europe and the world.
  https://www.crowd4privacy.org/

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

• European domain names under siege
• International coalition calls for withdrawal of Dutch hacking plans
• Lobbying DP Regulation: European Banking Federation as an example
• Chisugate: Copyright blackmail in Finland
• Russia: Pussy Riot's videos declared illegal on the Internet
• Netherlands: legislation for forced decryption announced
• German government proposes extended tracking of Internet users
• Danish opposition wants to abandon the illegal medicine site blocking
• ENDitorial: What could possibly go wrong?

Recommended reading

• Do we really want to put the ITU in charge of cybersecurity? (DE) (28.11.2012)
• Do we really want to put the ITU in charge of cybersecurity? (28.11.2012)
• Northern Ireland Court Orders Facebook to take down “Paedophile Watch” page (30.11.2012)
• EU urged to choose transatlantic convergence on data protection (5.12.2012)

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

• EDRi member FoeBuD becomes digitalcourage
• CleanIT looking for the question that it was seeking an answer to
• EDRi comments on the collective rights management draft directive
• Surprise! Facebook doesn't Like the Data Protection Regulation
• DP Regulation to accidentally introduce voluntary “three strikes”?
• Abandoning safe harbours: Hungarian online freedoms at risk
• Portuguese blog taken down by Google for unknown reasons
• IE Domain Registry confirms hijacking of the DNS nameservers
• EDPS Opinion on EC communication on cloud computing
• ENDitorial: Silly censorship week: And the winner is...

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EDRi member Open Rights Group - UK wins Human Rights Campaigner of the Year with 38 Degrees (20.11.2012)
• Communia: Position on EC Horizon 2020 Open Access policy (20.11.2012)
• Podcast: Azerbaijan IGF debrief (16.11.2012)
• IATA announces plan for personalized airline ticket prices (2.11.2012)
• Internet Policy Report 2011 – Brazil (11.2012)

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

• EDRi letter on website blocking & EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
• Increased Internet surveillance in Russia
• Irish DPA announces action on failed police self-regulation
• The Pirate Bay remains blocked in Finland
• Foreign betting websites might be blocked by the Irish Government
• Privacy rights as a global challenge
• Personal data revealed by Skype to a private company
• ENDitorial: The Microsoft IE10 Do Not Track “controversy”

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• The internet is not free in Azerbaijan (6.11.2012)
• French Data Protection Authority forbids the use of any biometric feature to control the working hours of employees (only in French, 23.10.2012)

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

• A week with EDRi Brussels
• Google needs to improve its privacy practices
• EDRi responds to umteenth public Net Neutrality consultation
• Turkey: Internet Report on digital rights 2012
• Google threatens to exclude the French online press from its search
• Dutch proposal to search and destroy foreign computers
• Details on German State Trojan programme

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EuroISPA reacts on the controversial CleanIT Project (23.10.2012)
• Article 29 Working Party - Opinion 08/2012 providing further input on the data protection reform discussions (5.10.2012)
• An update on Do Not Track The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)/Brussels (11.10.2012)
• Slovakia Adopts FOI Act Amendments on Re-use (22.10.2012)

Recommended action

• Islands of Resilience Comparative Model will remain open until 1 November 2012

  This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024
  
  Islands of Resilience Comparative Model for Energy, Connectivity and Jurisdiction Realizing European ICT possibilities through a case study of Iceland Request for comments will remain open until 1 November 2012
  http://www.islandsofresilience.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

• Protecting children in the digital environment and the rule of law
• ECJ to rule on the biometric passports
• Turkish plans to use IDs for accessing the Internet
• Portugal: File-sharing for personal use is not infringing the law
• Macedonian draft law may introduce online censorship
• Slovak Constitutional Court receives data retention complaint
• Azeri opposition blogger arrested
• “CLEAN IT”: the secret EU surveillance plan that wasn’t
• ENDitorial: The ETNO's WCIT proposals are not as bad as some say
• Last call for responding to Commission Net Neutrality Consultation

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Draft EU data protection law loophole threatens medical privacy (9.10.2012)
• Is the European Union Taking Human Rights Seriously? (1.10.2012)
• Commissioner Barnier welcomes final adoption of the Orphan Works Directive by the Council (4.10.2012)
• World e-Parliament Report 2012
• European Parliament: Study: Reforming the Data Protection Package (09.2012)

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

• Facebook gives up its face recognition feature in EU
• European Parliament steps back from promoting ISP liability
• Ancillary copyright madness in Germany and France
• EDRi responds to Commission “self-regulation” consultation
• EU Parliament approves directive on orphan works
• Data protection package: a proposed timetable in the EP
• The Netherlands against ACTA in all its forms
• Mapping Net Neutrality worldwide
• Freedom Not Fear 2012
• First victim of French 3 strikes law is found guilty for negligence
• ENDitorial: Clean IT is just a symptom of the pinata politics of privatised online enforcement

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Islands of Resilience Comparative Model for Energy, Connectivity and Jurisdiction Realizing European ICT possibilities through a case study of Iceland
• Competition enforcement in the knowledge economy Fordham University/ New York City (20.09.2012)
• EDPS issues comments on DG MARKT's public consultation on procedures for notifying and acting on illegal content hosted by online intermediaries (13.09.2012)
• Iran is making good on a vow to build its own web. Others could follow (23.09.2012)

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

• Belarusian authorities harass online opposition groups
• Spanish website gets back seized domain names. After 18 months.
• Russia: Old and new in online censorship
• Unitary patent brings back the software patents debate
• EDRi on child protection policy
• EDPS opinion on the EU database for asylum seekers
• ENDItorial: CET(A)CTA – Criminal sanctions provisions broadly identical

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack (10.09.2012)
• Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack (10.09.2012)
• Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack (10.09.2012)
• Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack (10.09.2012)
• Illegal file-sharing activity generally logged within three hours, according to new study (6.09.2012)
• Illegal file-sharing activity generally logged within three hours, according to new study (6.09.2012)
• Europeana’s huge cultural dataset opens for re-use (12.09.2012)

Recommended action

• Join Global Advocates: Oppose Expanding ITU Authority to the Internet (7.09.2012)

  This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.17_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120918
  https://www.cdt.org/blogs/ellery-biddle/0709global-advocates-oppose-expanding-itu-authority-internet

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's answer on BEREC's Net Neutrality consultation
• Some governments want more control over the Internet via ITU
• Russia looking for long prison years for hackers attacking govt sites
• Websites with takedown notices are pushed down in Google Search
• The French government wants to reinforce Internet control
• Macedonia: Serious challenges for access to public information
• ENDitorial: CleanIT: creating a safer internet...for terrorists?

Recommended action

• EFF: What's wrong with the TPP - Don’t Let Them Trade Away Our Internet Freedoms (08.2012)

  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/dont-let-them-trade-away-our-internet-freedoms

• Creative Commons licences consultation - Draft 2 of 4.0 Ready for Public Comment Deadline: Early September 2012

  http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33632

• Consultation on "Opening up Education

  a proposal for a European Initiative to enhance education and skills development through new technologies" Deadline: 13 November 2012
  http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/consult/open_en.htm

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 new Net Neutrality EC consultation delays possible regulations
• Czech Republic: Data retention - almost back in business
• Stravos Lambrinidis: EU First Special Representative for Human Rights
• ETSI standard for lawful interception triggers privacy questions
• Belarusian journalist detained for showing subway security flaws
• Google still holds data unlawfully obtained by StreetView
• France: Update on website blocking without a judicial decision
• Reporters Sans Frontières follows on the Wikileaks footsteps

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Online traceability: Who did that? (27.07.2012)
• Online traceability: Who did that? (27.07.2012)
• European Telco Proposal to ITU: A Threat to the Open Web? (27.07.2012)
• Big data at your service (25.07.2012)
• Linked Open Government Data (05-06.2012)

Recommended action

• Call for Papers for a special edition of IEEE Internet Computing on Internet Censorship and Control

  This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.15_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20120801
  
  The editors are looking for short (up to 5,000 words) articles on the technical, social, and political mechanisms and impacts of Internet censorship and control.They are soliciting both technical and social science articles, and especially encourage those that combine the two.
  Deadline for a brief description of the article: 15 August 2012
  http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iccfp3

• Commission consults on a future EU Network and Information Security legislative initiative (27.07.2012)

  Deadline: 15 October 2012
  http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/818&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=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

• Is CETA introducing ACTA through the back door?
• Russian bill creates blacklist of websites
• EP: Surprises in the online distribution of audiovisual works' report
• French Supreme Court: Important rulings for intermediary liability
• German Federal Supreme Court rules in the RapidShare case
• EC suggests changes of the music rights management system
• Ireland: E-voting machines go to scrap after proving unreliable
• Banking blockade on Wikileaks broken by the Icelandic court
• ENDitorial: EP and EDPS hit back against lawless “child protection” measures

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Article 29 Working Party opinion on cloud computing (1.07.2012)
• Bee stings killed as many in UK as terrorists, says watchdog (28.06.2012)

Recommended action

• Pledge for supporting EDRi (only in German)

  This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718
  
  Deadline: 30 September 2012
  http://www.pledgebank.com/support-edri

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

• Thank you SOPA, thank you ACTA
• ECJ decided Microsoft must pay a 860 million Euro fine
• European Commission position on Do Not Track
• UK snooping law plans may come into contradiction with EC
• E-voting in French elections raises problems
• UK government wants an automatic filtering of adult sites
• ENDitorial: Microsoft's vision for regulation of communication by private companies

Recommended action

• Current EU consultations of importance to digital rights Deadlines - from 6 July to 10 September 2012

  This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.13_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120704
  http://edri.org/open_consultations

• @ukhomeoffice: Stop the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer to the USA - #SaveRichard

  http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard

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 rise of the European upload filter
• Austria: Data retention petition ignored by the Parliament
• Google Transparency report: increasing trend of government censorship
• German news article removed from search results after DMCA complaint
• Article 29 WP’s opinion on the cookie exemptions
• UK websites might have to identify “trolls”
• Spanish Supreme Court says Google is not breaching copyright
• Google’s Street View privacy breach again in the public eye
• Prague ICANN meeting to discuss Whois data
• Culture: Global changes in production and consumption
• ENDitorial: Data retention - faint heart never won fair lady

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EDPS opinions on smart metering (8.06.2012)
• Letter from the Article 29 Working Party addressed to Mr. Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Chairman of the LIBE Committee, regarding the negotiations on the Proposal for a Directive on EU PNR (12.06.2012)
• Letter from the Article 29 Working Party addressed to Ms. Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Home Affairs, regarding Smart Borders (12.06.2012)

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

• Web blocking – Conclusions from the Danish Presidency
• BEREC’s findings on net neutrality
• Modernisation of CoE Convention 108: EDRi's comments
• Czech Republic: Attempts to reintroduce data retention
• EDRi’s response to the consultation on private copying levies
• Creating a safer Internet for children – some solid progress
• French Court considers YouTube non liable for the content
• A new EC proposal on e-identities and e-signatures
• ENDitorial: ACTA – the final weeks before the EP's vote

Recommended action

• 3rd International Day of Action against ACTA, IPRED & Co.

  This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!
  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606
  http://stoppacta-protest.info/

• Consultation on discussion papers on Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Sector Guidance Project

  Deadline: 30 June 2012
  
  Discussion paper @
  http://www.ihrb.org/pdf/roundtable-discussion-papers/ICT-Sector-Roundtable-Discussion-Paper-For-Public-Comment.pdf
  http://www.ihrb.org/project/eu-sector-guidance/consultation-on-sector-discussion-papers.html

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

• From talk to action – EP Committees to vote on ACTA next week
• Civil Society concerns over Internet regulation and ITU
• European Parliament rejects IPR as an internal security risk
• Romanian Parliament adopts the data retention law. Again.
• The Hague district court orders Pirate Party to censor its website
• Hearing at LIBE on ACTA
• Concerns over the proposed Communication Bill in UK
• Electronic identities all over the EU?
• Amesys - Complicity in torture: surveillance tech export control needed
• Finland: Open WiFi owners are not liable for copyright infringement
• ENDitorial: Online child protection should not come hand-in-hand with censorship

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• New ORG report reveals UK mobile Internet censorship (14.05.2012)
• Legal opinion on data retention misses the point (19.05.2012)
• First Report on the application of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS) (7.05.2012)
• Article 29 Data Protection Working Party: "European data protection authorities adopt opinion on developments in biometric technologies" (9.05.2012)
• Communia final report
• The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
• Access to EU documents: Article-by-Article commentary, ‘Red Lines’ for the negotiations, and the undemocratic recast procedure (10.05.2012)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523

• European Union: Have your say! Your rights, your future

  http://ec.europa.eu/justice/opinion/your-rights-your-future/

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

• Netherlands - first country in Europe with net neutrality
• France: Google sent again to court for its search suggestion service
• Concerns regarding plans for a new EU United Patent Court
• UK High Court orders ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
• Portugal: Suing users for copyright infringement does not work
• Slovakia: Mandatory e-forms work only on software from one vendor
• ENDitorial: ACTA is not dead

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• ECJ decision: The functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright (2.05.2012)
• The Directive on data protection and law enforcement: A Missed Opportunity? by Steve Peers, Professor of Law, Law School, University of Essex (04.2012)
• Belgium DPA: Recommendation on Net Neutrality and Deep Packet Inspection (only in French, 11.04.2012)
• Belgium DPA: Recommendation on Net Neutrality and Deep Packet Inspection (only in Dutch, 11.04.2012)

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

• ACTA – if you think we've won, we've lost
• European Court of Justice ruling in the Bonnier case
• Spain: Draft law criminalising online organisation of public protests
• Thousands of Austrians standing up against data retention
• EU Parliament agrees to EU-US PNR Agreement
• YouTube loses a case in Germany to collective society Gema
• FBI seizure to threaten anonymity and freedom of speech
• Big Brother Awards Germany 2012
• ENDitorial: The day the HADOPI stream flowed into the Pirate Bay

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• The Digital Public Domain (2012)
• Policy Guidelines for the development and promotion of Open Access by Alma Swan (2012)
• 2011 Report on the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (16.04.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507

• 9 June 2012:Europe wide action day against ACTA!

  https://www.youtube.com/user/stopactaeurope?feature=watch

• European Commission consults on rules for wirelessly connected devices - the "Internet of Things"

  http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=IoTGovernance

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

• New EDRi members
• UK: Home Office plans new surveillance measures
• 9 June 2012 – European Action Day Against ACTA
• Poland: Almost 2 million accesses to electronic communication data
• Hadopi report says nothing about decreases in sales
• Hungary: freedom of information restricted by new draft law
• New CoE recommendations for human rights in Internet services
• Draft Online Safety Bill to block pornographic sites in UK
• ENDItorial: Searching for a Google strategy?

Recommended reading

• OSCE: Safety of Journalists Guidebook, by William Horsley (also addresses online journalism)
• The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party's opinion on facial recognition in online and mobile services (23.03.2012)
• The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party's opinion on data protection reform proposals
• Digital School program with open textbooks approved by Polish government! (3.04.2012)
• Being Open About Data - The Finnish Institute in London has recently completed a five-month research project on the British open data policies. The report looks on how the open data ecosystem has emerged in the UK and what lessons can be drawn upon the British experiences (29.03.2012)
• Being Open About Data (PDF)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.7_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120411

• Draft CC Licences version 4.0 available for comments

  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Draft_1
  http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32157

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-US PNR Agreement: A bad day for civil liberties in Europe
• EU-US joint commitments on privacy and protection of personal data
• France: Biometric ID database found unconstitutional
• ICANN will cooperate in taking down websites for copyright infringements
• CoE's Internet Governance strategy places emphasis on users' rights
• New German court decision on traffic filtering
• Italy: Problematic Internet blocking decision against fraudulent website
• ENDitorial: European Parliament defends itself and democracy from ACTA

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EDRi Cooperative efforts in ACTA Digital Chapter (03.2012)
• ENISA: Study on data collection and storage in the EU
• Commission gives up blocking VPN services, but still blocks ToR (26.03.2012)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328

• 28 March 2012: Events on the Document Freedom Day

  http://documentfreedom.org/

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

• First vote in the EP on PNR Agreement with the USA
• Google and Facebook blocked by the Danish child pornography filter
• CEO Coalition to make the Internet a better place for kids
• Spanish DPA asks ECJ on right to be forgotten
• UK Court of Appeal stands behind the Digital Economy Act
• ACTA debates in Europe
• eVoting: Electronic urn modified by "a simple procedure"
• EDPS on the new draft EU data protection policy
• Winners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards announced
• German Constitutional Court rules on access to personal data
• ENDitorial: About copyright reform

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (12.03.2012)
• BEREC preliminary findings on traffic management practices in Europe show that blocking of VoIP and P2P traffic is common, other practices vary widely (6.03.2012)
• Google is now in the PNR hosting business (1.03.2012)
• Counter-terrorism, "policy laundering" and the FATF -legalising surveillance, regulating civil society (2.03.2012)
• Counter-terrorism, "policy laundering" and the FATF -legalising surveillance, regulating civil society (full report)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in: Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.5_Mitmachen

• Future of Copyright contest

  What should the future of copyright law look like? Write, sing, animate or talk about it, and win the prize funded by crowds.
  http://www.indiegogo.com/Future-of-Copyright

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 Netlog and Scarlet/Sabam rulings & ACTA - what have we learned?
• More ISP blocking in different EU countries
• Internet communications heavily monitored by German intelligence services
• UK: Home Office spy plan
• Protect Coders' Rights!
• European data protection authorities: Google violates privacy rules
• Private copy levies draft law in Portugal
• EU standards reform: Carte blanche stifles open formats
• Twitter censors unfavourable Sarkozy accounts
• ENDitorial: Member States turn a drama into a crisis for Commissioner Malmström on data retention

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Merging professional drivers' driving licence with their driver card is not fully in line with data protection principles (17.02.2012)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229

• No PNR mail campaign

  Soon, the European Parliament is going to vote on the PNR Agreement with the US. The rapporteur, MEP Sophie in't Veld (ALDE), recommended to reject the Agreement in her draft report for the civil liberties committee (LIBE).
  
  Therefore, we need to contact our MEPs now, especially from the S&D group, and urge them to support MEP in't Velds recommendation. You can use our briefing paper (see link below) or other useful analysis such as from the Article 29 Working Group, NoPNR, Papers Please etc. Below you will also find a link to the list of MEPs in the LIBE Committee that should be contacted before the vote in the Committee which is planned for the 20 March.
  
  Is the EU-US PNR Agreement acceptable?
  http://edri.org/files/2012EDRi_US_PNRcomments.pdf
  
  List of MEPs in the LIBE committee
  https://memopol.lqdn.fr/europe/parliament/committee/LIBE/
  http://www.nopnr.org/contact-your-mep/

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

• European Anti-ACTA protests of 11 February
• European Commission discusses tactical, partial retreat on ACTA
• EC "Roadmap" for review of the IPR Enforcement Directive
• Hadopi takes the final steps towards cutting Internet access
• Two Strikes in Germany?
• Software-hardware bundling not accepted in France
• UK: 3 million checks on criminal records in 2011
• RFID - a dangerous fashion trend highlighted on German streets by FoeBuD
• Irish ISP puts its customers' personal data at risk
• ENDitorial: EU DP Regulation Proposal: The French CNIL defends its turf

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EDRi papers: DRM - The strange, broken world of the digital rights management
• ACTA Survival Guide For Website Owners (7.02.2012)
• 10 European Commission Myths About ACTA (8.02.2012)
• Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age - By Philippe Aigrain (3.02.2012)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221

• Petition: Support the establishment of a common European OpenData license

  Petition: Support the establishment of a common European OpenData license within the review of the Public Sector Information re-use Directive Deadline: 1 March 2012 Available in Spanish and English
  http://actuable.es/peticiones/say-to-neeliekroeseu-we-want-single-opendata-licence-in-the

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

• Email Newsletter EDRi-gram 10.2 delayed
• ACTA - Frequently Asked Questions
• Data Protection Week 2012: CPDP and the BarCamp
• Police frequently uses Silent SMS to locate suspects
• The Lobby on ACTA is reaching a new level
• ACTA "uprising" in Poland
• FAVA'S bill: Another attempt to limit civil rights in Italy
• Geolocation censorship to be applied by Twitter
• Belgian Big Brother Awards 2012
• ENDitorial: EDRi's initial comments on the Data Protection Regulation

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• UK: Smart meters for energy to be voluntary (1.02.2012)
• Infographic: Hollywood's long war on technology (8.01.2012)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.2_Mitmachen

• Read & share the EDRi papers!

  Activist Guide to the Brussels Maze
  http://edri.org/papers/activist-guide-to-the-brussels-maze/
  
  EU Survellance: A summary of current EU surveillance and security measures
  http://edri.org/papers/eu-surveillance/
  
  How the Internet works - a guide for policy-makers
  http://edri.org/papers/how-the-internet-works/
  
  
  http://edri.org/papers

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 supports protests against US blacklist legislation
• What's Wrong with ACTA Week
• The US pressure on Spain to censor the Internet has paid off
• Belarus strongly censors the Internet
• Commission confirms illegality of Data Retention Directive
• Romanian Senate rejects the new data retention law
• Finnish ISP started blocking The Pirate Bay
• Dutch Internet providers forced to block The Pirate Bay
• US continue pushing on EU Commission against Data Protection proposals
• Researchers say smart meter technology is privacy intrusive
• ENDitorial: Copyright vs Public Domain-copyright as a barrier to culture?

Recommended reading

• German police officer uses federal Trojan to spy on daughter. Her friend then breaks into fathers PC and police server (The Local 9.01.2012)
• German police officer uses federal Trojan to spy on daughter. Her friend then breaks into fathers PC and police server (Der Spiegel, 9.01.2012)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127

• 5th International Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference: "European Data Protection: Coming of Age"

  CPDP 2012 takes place during a significant stage of the revision of the EU legal framework on data protection, thus several panels will focus on the review and the latest legislative proposals. More than 20 panels will be organized on key issues such as geolocalization, e-identity and e-management, enforcement of copyright protection, surveillance in the workplace, accountability and communication of privacy. In addition, there will be workshops and special sessions on topics such as eDiscovery, privacy impact assessments and "privacy by design", smart metering and transborder data flows. Since 2012 was declared the European Year of Active Ageing, three sessions will be devoted to the theme of Ageing and New Technologies.
  
  25-27 January 2012, Brussels, Belgium
  http://www.cpdpconferences.org/

• Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights

  A new European Commissions' project will produce 3 sector-specific guides on the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights.The choice regarding which three sectors will be the included in this project, based on suggestions by stakeholders, will be made by the Commission and announced in February 2012. Therefore, it is very important that you give your input in order to highlight the importance of defending human rights in the digital environment.
  
  All stakeholders are invited to submit their suggestions for the choice of sectors by emailing sectorguidance@ihrb.org by:6pm CET on 27 January 2012.
  http://www.ihrb.org/news/2012/new_project_to_develop_business_and_human_rights_guides_for_three_european_business_sectors.html

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

• Support EDRi!
• Council of Europe and European Commission initiatives on Internet freedom
• Brief overview of the leaked EU Data Protection Regulation
• Russian Government's new attempts to censor the Internet
• European Parliament: raising awareness on "self"-regulation
• Austria: Petition against Data Retention Directive
• German web blocking law repealed
• A fair Internet for all?
• Transatlantic data privacy in debate at Privacy Conference
• UK: Medical records in the open data programme?

Recommended reading

• Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold (12.12.2011)
• EDPS opinion on EU-US Passenger Name Record agreement (13.12.2011)
• The State of Surveillance: The Data (1.12.2011)
• Global Information Society Watch report 2011 - Internet rights and democratisation
• Internet censorship against streaming in France? (1.12.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in: Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  CSISAC, the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council to the OECD, of which EDRI is a founding and steering committee member, is looking for its Community Manager and Liaison to OECD. If you are a brilliant and experienced community manager, people-motivator, public-interest advocate, while being a diplomat, knowledgeable and showing strong interest in policy related to the internet, telecommunications and information society, check the job offer and full job description at
  http://csisac.org/2011/12/csisac_job_opening_community_m.php

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

• Scarlet v SABAM: a win for fundamental rights and Internet freedoms
• Proposed US-EU PNR Agreement made public
• Dutch Parliament: no discussions on ACTA if negotiations are still secret
• Turkey launches Internet filtering scheme
• US crackdown on global domain names and IP addresses continues
• Italian Police blocks sites that had banners to alleged illegal websites
• EU-US summit joint statement ignores European civil rights
• New Guidelines to RFID Privacy Impact Assessments
• Two years into the Stockholm Programme: on the way to e-Fortress Europe?
• ENDitorial: Advocate General on Data Retention: Strange answer&question

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EDPS calls for strengthening of proposed Regulation on the Internal Market Information System (22.11.2011)
• Sweden: Net Neutrality: Mobile Broadband Suppliers Discriminate Against BitTorrent (22.11.2011)
• Sweden: Net Neutrality: Mobile Broadband Suppliers Discriminate Against BitTorrent (22.11.2011)
• Data losses from local authorities in UK (23.11.2011)
• Data losses from local authorities in UK (23.11.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130

• Stop ACTA!

  http://www.edri.org/stopacta

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: EC proposes reduced retention periods for retained data
• US court allows access to world-wide Twitter accounts data
• Online Distribution of Audiovisual Works: EDRi's answer to the EC
• Unlocking education in the Netherlands
• EDRi Responds to BEREC's Consultation on Net Neutrality and Transparency
• 2011 Public Voice Civil Society Conference: "Privacy is Freedom"
• 33rd International DPA Conference in Mexico City
• Will the new flawed EU-US PNR agreement be approved by the EP?
• ENDitorial: Copyright combinatronics

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Civil society letter against the US SOPA law - Stop Online Piracy Act (15.11.2011)
• EU charter creating "confusion" on human rights (11.11.2011)
• Want to create a really strong password? Don't ask Google (8.11.2011)
• INTA chairman defends secrecy (12.11.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.22_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111116

• Stop ACTA!

  http://www.edri.org/stopacta

• Beat the censor - online game

  http://stefanwehrmeyer.com/projects/beatcensors/

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

• Four strikes against web blocking in Brussels
• The Russian Government plans to control the online media
• EU-Australia agreement on travel data transfers adopted by EP
• Finnish ISP ordered to block The Pirate Bay
• Ukraine draft law on decency threatens freedom of speech
• Vote on Net neutrality in the European Parliament
• Austrian Big Brother Awards 2011
• Higher numbers of content removal requests from governments to Google
• The European Commission encourages the digitisation of culture

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• New translations of the EDRi's ACTA booklet: Romanian
• New translations of the EDRi's ACTA booklet: Hungarian
• European Parliament releases "nonexistent" coordinators' minutes on ACTA
• US: Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back - And It's Worse than Ever
• UK: Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
• Sebastian Haunss , Kenneth C. Shadlen -Politics Of Intellectual Property Contestation Over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110

• Austrians: sign the petition!

  Austrians: sign the petition asking the Austrian Parliament to oblige the government to engage against the data retention directive on EU level, and to evaluate the whole set of existing anti-terror legislation. Set up by Austrian AKVorrat. (only in German)
  http://www.akvorrat.at/

• Anti-ACTA videos

  http://www.laquadrature.net/en/video-acta-get-informed-take-action

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

• European action week on airline passenger surveillance
• The latest developments on ACTA in the European Parliament
• German police accused of using a Trojan backdoor for interceptions
• Berlusconi's wiretapping law threatens online publishers
• Phorm gets back on the European stage
• EDPS's Opinion on net neutrality & privacy
• European Parliament legal service confirms: ACTA may or may not be legal
• ENDitorial: Belgian music industry acts to undermine copyright law

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EPO, European Commission Renew Commitment To Unitary Patent (6.10.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.edri.org/wiki/goto/www.unwatched.org%252FEDRigram_9.20_Mitmachen%253Fpk_campaign%253Dedri%2526pk_kwd%253D20111028

• EDRi is Flattrable starting with this week!

  http://flattr.com/thing/417077/edri-on-Flattr

• CPDP 2011 Conference Multidisciplinary Privacy Award

  The award, to be presented at the annual Computers, Data Protection and Privacy (CPDP) Conference held in Brussels at the end of January 2012, will be given to the authors of the best multidisciplinary paper that describes new ideas in privacy and data protection. Eligible papers need to have been published or accepted for publication between 1 November 2010 and 31 October 2011.
  http://www.cpdpconferences.org/privacyaward.html

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 37 NGOs send letter to European Commission on data retention
• European Digital Rights discusses cybercrime in LIBE Committee
• Belgian court: Two ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay
• German politician caught in its own two-strike model trap
• Investigative journalism website under scrutiny by the Hungarian police
• French Internet users on the verge of being disconnected
• ENDitorial: Countries start signing ACTA, preparatory docs still secret

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• The Digital Public Domain: Relevance and Regulation (10.2011)
• Comparative test of Internet Anonymizers (28.09.2011)
• Conference "Statewatching Europe" Civil Liberties, the State and the EU Speeches videos (25.06.2011)
• Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Press Release: Data Protection Authorities not convinced on necessity and proportionality of the proposal for European Terrorist Finance Tracking System (3.10.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011

• Respect My Net Name and shame operators restricting access to the Internet

  http://respectmynet.eu/

• Berec has launched a public consultation on draft Guidelines on Net Neutrality and Transparency.

  Stakeholders are invited to send their answers by the 2.11.2011 to berec@ec.europa.eu
  
  http://erg.ec.europa.eu/doc/berec/consult_info.pdf
  http://erg.ec.europa.eu/doc/berec/consultation_draft_guidelines.pdf

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

• New rules on term of protection of music recordings
• Free operating systems might be blocked by Windows 8
• New states adopt Internet blocking measures for unwanted online gambling
• Constitutional Court: limited responsibility for bloggers in France
• Freedom not Fear: High time for European (digital) civil rights
• UK government wants search engines to fight copyright infringement
• Italian draft law suggests a "one strike" law for copyright infringement
• http://edri.org/edrigramnumber9-1810-years-effi-2011-bba/

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Consumers out in force against targeted online ads (14.09.2011)

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 EC tries to increase government control of the Internet
• Sweden argues that transposing data retention directive is unnecessary
• DigiNotar breach leads to grave security concerns
• EU privacy watchdog still displeased with online behavioural advertising
• EP study on "Consumer Behaviour in a Digital Environment"
• ECHR to analyse Azeri bloggers' complaint against unjust imprisonment
• EP committee supports the introduction of body scanners in EU airports
• ENDitorial: Abuse of Irish police databases

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Statewatch Analysis: UK: Internet censorhip looms as government finds alternatives to flawed Digital Economy Act by Max Rowlands
• Europe's Odd Anti-Piracy Stance: Send Money to the US! (4.09.2011)
• Naming Names on the Internet (4.09.2011)
• Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices - a research project about openness of public data in EU local administration (2011)

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 responds to European Commission consultation on gambling
• UK riots give birth to the idea of suspending social media services
• German DPA asks for the removal of Facebook "like" button
• Turkey postpones its Internet filtering plans
• No effective sanction for Police abuse of Irish data retention system
• US Hotline reports vast improvements in removal of child abuse websites
• Copyright industry obtains court injunction against BT to block website

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• UK: Protecting information privacy - Equality and Human Rights Commission Research report 69 (Summer 2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.16_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110901

• Survey that gathers the views of internet users from all EU

  Survey that gathers the views of internet users from all EU countries on the use of personal information, privacy, and giving consent online. This survey is part of the CONSENT project - a collaborative project co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme.
  http://bit.ly/Survey-CONSENT

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

• Draft Council conclusions on Net Neutrality
• EU countries to explain lack of implementation of the Telecoms Package
• Germany's salaries database bites the dust
• Slovakia: Court asks website to filter public procurement open data
• Voluntary agreements on blocking are interfering with human rights
• Belgium: Francophone press goes out and back in Google Search
• Britain: Government reneges on DNA privacy promise
• ENDitorial: Phone hacking and self regulation

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Article 29 Data Protection Working Party - Opinion on Consent (14.07.2011)
• Article 29 Data Protection Working Party - Opinion on Consent (14.07.2011)
• 86 cents for one year without blanket telecommunications data retention (25.07.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801

• Public consultation on personal data breach notifications under ePrivacy Directive. Deadline: 9 September 2011

  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/library/public_consult/data_breach/index_en.htm

• EU - Open access to scientific information

  Commission seeks views A public consultation on access to, and preservation of, digital scientific information has been launched by the European Commission. Deadline: 9 September 2011
  http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/890

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

• EP discussions on international agreements on passenger name records
• Legal victory for trademark litigants over intermediary liability
• Implementing a flawed data retention directive?
• OSCE: Access to the Internet should be a human right
• Internet blocking stopped in Italy (for now)
• Dutch Senate "disappointed" with Data Retention Directive evaluation
• Perspectives of Internet blocking in UK following US model
• EP Hearing "Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age"
• ENDitorial: Why it was good to propose web blocking for child abuse images

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EDPS calls on the European Commission to ensure that safeguards for online behavioural advertising are respected (11.07.2011)
• Mrs. Kroes: Will You Let Them Control the Net? (13.07.2011)
• Statewatch Analysis: "Network with errors": Europe's emerging web of DNAdatabases by Eric Topfer

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen: PNR-Postkartenaktion

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Mitmachen_PNR-Postkartenaktion?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721

• Write postcards during your holidays to the Members of the European Parliament and ask them to vote against the PNR-Agreements

  http://www.nopnr.org/pnr-postcard-campaign/

• German version of the campaign (only in German, 6.07.2011)

  http://www.unwatched.org/20110706_Postkartenaktion_gegen_PNR

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

• CSISAC decision not to endorse draft OECD Internet Communiqué
• The Netherlands - first EU country to launch net neutrality
• Negotiations end in confused text on Internet blocking
• EU-US PNR agreement found incompatible with human rights
• High level discussions on online tracking
• New draft law for data retention in Romania
• UK: Copyright holders ask for website blocking
• No anonymous Internet usage in Denmark?
• Traffic data fraudulently obtained by the Czech police
• Low level of protection for minor's privacy on social networks

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Proposals for EU Council Decision on signing & conclusion of ACTA
• Proposals for EU Council Decision on signing & conclusion of ACTA
• Sex, Lies and Cyber-crime Surveys (06.2011)
• The Entire Internet Under Governmental Censorship In France? (15.06.2011)
• Anonymous Blogging with WordPress and Tor guide in Spanish (21.06.2011)
• Security and Human Behaviour 2011 Workshop 2011 (17-18.06.2011)
• Security and Human Behaviour 2011 Workshop 2011 (17-18.06.2011)
• CfP 2011 (14-16.06.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.13_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110708

• Norway: Open source code for e-voting system on the Internet (10.06.2011)

  http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/krd/prosjekter/e-vote-2011-project/source-code.html?id=645239

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

• European Commission consults with civil society on data retention
• Irish "three strikes" system investigated by Data Protection Commissioner
• European Commission consultation on IPR enforcement
• UK: The Home Office's Prevent Strategy includes Internet filtering
• Facebook's face recognition raises privacy complaints
• Germany: Police statistics prove data retention superfluous
• Big Brother Awards Italy 2011
• ENDitorial: Hello CIRCAMP web blocking, goodbye democracy
• Recommended Action. Smart meters: Let's be clever and team up

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• EDPS Annual report 2010 (15.06.2011)
• New Brussels Lobbying Group Communia Works For A Stronger Public Domain (13.06.2011)
• Michael Geist: Europe Considers Using CETA To Create "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Plus" (13.06.2011)
• Statewatch Analysis: Rethinking the EU Security Research Programme (pdf) by Ben Hayes (06.2011)
• Policy brief: Protection of Personal Data in Republic of Moldova (9.06.2011)

Recommended action

• Smart Metering: Seid klug und schließt Euch zusammen! (Deutsch)

  Smart meters: Let's be clever and team up
  
  The European Union decided that 80% of all users are to have a smart meter in 2020. These instruments will then measure the consumption of gas and electricity. They can be integrated in a smart grid, a network of users and producers that ensures better tuning of supply and demand. When solar generators produce electricity, the washing machine can best do its work.
  
  This part sounds good? What about civil and digital rights? The issue is related since there are also potentially some undesirable effects attached to this new technology:
  
  Privacy: The government, electricity producers and/or others may gain access to detailed information about our energy use. The government may use this information for investigations about when you were home, if you have a new partner, if you lead a healthy life. You name it. Energy companies may decide to target you with specific advertisements or sell the information. In California, the energy company PG&E, smart meter producer GE and Google work together. Also, criminals can use the information to build a profile and ultimately use it for identity-theft, a once science fiction nightmare that for many became a reality. Look it up if identity-theft is an abstract word for you.
  
  Security: This is closely linked to privacy. A leaky system will reveal privacy data. In addition, the smart meter might give access to equipment inside the house like the connected PC. Hacking the smart grid can also give access to the light switch for the grid. By the way: smart meters can cut off your energy remotely.
  
  Electrosmog: With the authorities (WHO, Council of Europe) warning against electromagnetic radiation, the dangers of wireless technology might finally be taken seriously. Might. A smart meter can be equipped with wireless technology, like GPRS, "RF-meshed" or a separate, more secure protocol/frequency. Depending on the type of network and the information exchange rate, the radiation can be more or less serious for the health of humans, animals and plants. There is an alternative using wired technology. It's called PLC or Power Line Carrier. Italy has already implemented this system.
  
  These are a few of the issues that surround smart meters. We're in the early stages still. In Brussels, the representatives from all EU countries meet to decide on the technology and the demands for smart meters, including the rules and regulations.
  
  The zeal to implement the smart grid is staggering. For the Netherlands the whole issue started with a law proposal that would force every user to accept the smart meter. This came out when Vrijbit, a Dutch privacy organisation, and the Dutch Consumer NGO (Consumentenbond) read the small print. Those who would refuse the smart meter could face up to 6 months imprisonment. This brutal force was reason for the Senate to reject the law proposal. The revised law passed early this year.
  
  Now the Dutch pilot-implementation is planned by the start of 2012, comprising 400 000 smart meters in 2 years. After the evaluation in the parliament (end 2013), the final roll-out would comprise 7 million smart meters. If it all satisfies the needs, i.e. a lot can still change.
  
  In a recent meeting with people from the Ministry of Economic Affairs we discussed privacy aspects of the smart meter. They made it clear that if issues like privacy are to be taken seriously, European privacy organisations need to team up. If pressure is applied now, if representatives are compelled to take this issue seriously, then this increases the chance for a better smart meter. From a manufacturing viewpoint, special wishes will only be turned into actual product features if there is sufficient market for these.
  
  I am already member of Vrijbit, a Dutch privacy organisation. Other EDRi members are also interested in smart meters as well. Are you a member of a privacy organisation and interested in smart meters? Do you know people who are? Let us establish a network to ensure our demands on privacy are known in Brussels. Let's team up!
  
  Contact me by Twitter: Mr_Communicator or eMail: smitentertainmentedhotmail_com (Subject: Let's team up!)
  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.12_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110623

• Dutch government public message 'What is a smart meter?' (only in Dutch)

  http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/energie-en-kleinverbruikers/slimme-meter

• Vrijbit: File on Smart Meters (only in Dutch)

  https://www.vrijbit.nl/dossier/financien/dossier-slimme-meters.html

• The dark side of the smart electrical grid (24.10.2010)

  http://www.plusultratech.com/2010/10/dark-side-of-smart-electrical-grid.html

• The dark side of 'smart' meters (1.11.2010)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLeCTaSG2-U

• Article 29 Working Party Opinion 12/2011 on smart metering (4.04.2011)

  http://ec.europa.eu/justice/policies/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2011/wp183_en.pdf

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

• Battle over Passenger Data is heating up
• UN report examines online censorship
• European IP policy is crippling the European digital economy
• G8 and e-G8 Summit on Internet freedom
• EDPS: Data Retention Directive fails to meet data protection requirements
• Finland: Blocking of domestic websites ruled illegal
• Internet FoE: How should Europe battle online censorship?
• MEPs approve body scanners on airports on a voluntarily basis
• OSCE findings on Estonian e-voting
• Internet governance dialogue in Belgrade 2011

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Internet matters: The Net's sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity. (05.2011)
• State of the Internet in Europe (25.05.2011)
• Google boss: anti-piracy laws would be disaster for free speech (18.05.2011)
• Author Attitudes Towards Open Access Publishing (27.04.2011)
• Freedom of Connection, Freedom of Expression: UNESCO launches new publication (25.05.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://bit.ly/j4lkyn

• Open letter against ACTA

  Expression of concern initiated by some European medialabs collaborate in LABtoLAB, a two year programme of collective reflection on informal learning. (05.2011)
  http://www.labtolab.org/~labtolab/wiki/index.php/Acta_expression_of_concern#SUPPORT_THE_TEXT

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 and China adopt harmonised approach to censorship
• Data retention in EU Council Meeting
• Belgium Senate deletes the repressive part of the three strikes draft law
• Dutch ISPs admit to using deep packet inspection
• CoE refuses to start investigation on biometrics
• Ireland adopts innovation agenda on intellectual property
• UK police has bought surveillance software to track online movements
• Google found guilty in Belgium for newspapers' copyright infringement
• Privatised enforcement series E: Online trading platforms sell out
• CFP 2011 Conference to address the Future of Technology and Human Rights
• ENDitorial: RFID PIA: Check against delivery

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• UK: A review of Intellectual Property and Growth - An independent report by Ian Hargreaves (05.2011)
• Demonstrators take to streets across Turkey to protest Internet bans (15.05.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Mitmachen

• European Commission: Public Consultation on Cloud Computing Deadline: 31 August 2011

  http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=cloudcomputing&lang=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 "Virtual Schengen Border" or "Great Firewall of Europe"
• European Commission stumbles in ACTA opinion rebuttal
• Facebook takes down activist groups' profiles
• Don't use "crispy" on the Turkish Internet!
• Data Retention has arrived in Austria
• Copyright complaint leads to public domain music library takedown
• The curious case of Internet filtering in Ireland
• French Digital Council with no representative from Internet users
• BitTorrent site blocked by Italian court
• Privatised enforcement series D: Anatomy of a self-regulation proposal
• ENDitorial: Defending the Open Internet

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• English translation of the Czech Constitutional Court data retention decision
• Impossible to Ensure Legality of EU Communications Data Retention Directive Says German Parliament (26.04.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Mitmachen

• Europeana will organise a series of hackathons

  Europeana will organise a series of hackathons to showcase the potential of the API usage for data providers, partners and end-users. The hackathons are informal workshops bringing together competent and enthusiastic software developers to build cool projects within a day or two (sketches, prototypes, even working applications).
  
  Europeana and partner institutions are organising simultaneous hackathons in 4 European countries (UK, Sweden, Poland, Spain) in the week 6 - 11 June 2011
  http://version1.europeana.eu/web/api/hackathons

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

• Top 10 misleading statements of the European Commission on data retention
• European Commission's Net Neutrality report
• Implementation of the SWIFT agreement under review
• French Parliament issues a positive report on Net Neutrality
• Dutch government announces measures against downloading
• Italian court found Google responsible for search suggestions to users
• Privatised enforcement Series C: The law according to the Advocate General
• ENDitorial:CoE: A New Notion of Media. For Better or For Worse?

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Freedom House - Freedom of the Net 2011: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media (18.04.2011)
• Internet freedom in Azerbaijan: Joint Statement of Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety and Democracy Monitor (18.04.2011)
• Article 29 Working Party - Opinion 10/2011 on the proposal for a Directive on the use of passenger name record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime (5.04.2011)
• Europe Creates Orphan Works Registry, Copyright ID System; Digitises EU Content (12.04.2011)
• Tim Berners-Lee: Web access is a "human right" (12.04.2011)

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

• Czech Constitutional Court rejects data retention legislation
• EDRi responds to IPR Enforcement consultation
• EDPS criticizes the EU PNR scheme
• Ten Internet Rights & Principles for Human Rights and Social Justice
• Judicial Review of the Digital Economy Act
• German Internet blocking law to be withdrawn
• NGOs ask CoE to investigate government collection of biometrics
• RFID Privacy Impact Assessment Framework formally adopted
• Website blocking and suspension discussions in the UK
• Big Brother Awards Germany 2011
• Privatised online enforcement series: B. Is "self-regulation" worse than useless?
• ENDitorial: Data retention: Is the EC trying to dig itself out of a hole?

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Paul de Hert / Rocco Bellanova: Transatlantic Cooperation on Travelers' Data Processing: From Sorting Countries to Sorting Individuals (Migration Policy Institute, 2011)
• European Data Protection Commissioners insist on the need for a comprehensive EU approach to data protection (6.04.2011)
• EU survey: 72% of Europeans not informed about their fundamental rights (18.03.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.7_Mitmachen

• Public consultation on on-line gambling in the Single Market.

  The final questions in the Green Paper asks about the value of, and options for, blocking of gambling websites.
  http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/services/gambling_en.htm

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

• French DPA fines Google for its Street View case with 100k Euro
• The Privacy Platform Meeting: Reding outlines the way forward
• Belgian political parties suspend plans for IPR enforcement measures
• Net Neutrality debate kicks off in UK as ISPs propose transparency code
• Ireland: Police seek internet blocking from ISPs
• Using new Internet tools to identify dissidents in Azerbaijan
• Romania: draft legislation proposing website blocking
• Loppsi 2 bill passes the French Constitutional Council test
• Dutch court rules that WiFi hacking is legal
• Privatised online enforcement series: A. Abandonment of the rule of law

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.
• German statistics prove telecommunications data retention superfluous (21.03.2011)

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

• Avalanche of intellectual property initiatives on the way in EU
• Four Big Brother Awards for heavyweight Dutch privacy violations
• Turkey adds popular blogging platform to blocking list
• SWIFT agreement implementation not respecting data protection safeguards
• French decree establishes what data must be retained by hosting providers
• Dutch Internet providers abandon "ineffective" web blocking
• Four strikes law returns to Belgium
• Sustainable Models for Creativity in the Digital Age
• Portuguese Government uses "honeypots" to deter copyright infringers
• Final call for petition on government use of citizens' biometrics
• ENDitorial: Net child abuse: Member States fiercely defend their right to do nothing

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Bulgaria: Institute of Modern Politics - Special Report on Acts of the government and the security services in Bulgaria which threaten or openly violate citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms (02.2011)
• Article 29 Working Party on data protection: Letter to Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for DG Home Affairs (Internal security and immigration): EU PNR agreements with the US, Canada and Australia - new negotiations. Expresses concerns about the EU-USA PNR, EU-CANADA, EU-Australia and future PNR agreements
• UK: Newspaper does not have to identify anonymous commenters, rules High Court (28.02.2011)
• ENISA: Facing the cyber-zombies - EU Agency gets tough on Botnets (8.03.2011) The EU's 'cyber security' Agency ENISA published a comprehensive study on the botnet threat (networks of ordinary computers controlled by cybercriminals),and how to address it. The report looks at the reliability of botnet size estimates and makes recommendations for all groups involved in the fight against botnets. Alongside the main report, the Agency sets out the top 10 key issues for policymakers in 'Botnets:10 Tough Questions'
• Open Government Data in Slovakia (3.03.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_Mitmachen

• Electronic identification, authentication and signatures in the European digital single market Public consultation Deadline for comments: 15 April 2011

  http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=eid4&lang=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

• Hungary amends its controversial Media Law
• EESC condemns body scanners as a breach of fundamental rights
• The French supreme court recognizes hosting status of Web 2.0 services
• The US pressures the EU to pass ACTA before the end of 2011
• German law on Internet blocking challenged in Constitutional Court
• Polish civil society stirs up debate on Internet freedom
• France: Loppsi 2 adopted - Internet filtering without court order
• Is the EU going to have a new common patent law?
• European Privacy & Human Rights 2010
• ENDitorial: Internet blocking - EP opts for leadership over populism

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• European DPAs adopt opinion on RFID Privacy Impact Assessment Framework
• ENISA Report: 'Bittersweet cookies': new types of 'cookies' raise online security & privacy concerns
• Freedom in the days of the Internet

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.4_Mitmachen

• The Council of Europe consultation

  The Council of Europe's Expert Committee on New Media launched a consultation on its draft recommendations on search engines and social networking services, including guidelines
  Deadline for sending your comments:18 March 2011
  http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/

• Privacy International: Petition to Council of Europe on government use of citizens biometrics

  https://www.privacyinternational.org/article/petition-council-europe-government-use-citizens-biometrics

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 retention law provisions declared unlawful in Cyprus
• Commission's proposal for PNR Directive fails to impress MEPs
• German study finds the data retention ineffective
• UK Supreme Court to hear DNA cases
• Spanish sports streaming domain seized by US authorities without warning
• France: Increased powers for Hadopi authority
• ENDitorial: Internet blocking and damage to child protection

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Statewatch Analysis: EU: Deepening the democratic deficit: the failure to "enshrine" the public's right of access to documents by Tony Bunyan
• Transparency NGOs call on EU not to restrict document access (2.02.2011)

Recommended action

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Mitmachen!

  http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_Mitmachen

• Modernisation of the Council of Europe Convention 108

  With new data protection challenges arising everyday, the Convention is being overhauled to meet new realities and time is now ripe to think about modernising it. The technological developments of the information and communication society as well as the globalisation of exchanges lead to unexplored challenges and potential new risks for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Is Convention 108's protection still in line with today's needs in respect of data protection or should it be modified and complemented in order to better satisfy the legitimate expectations of individuals and concerned professionals?
  http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/dataprotection/Consultation_Modernisation_Convention_108_EN.pdf

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 responds to data protection consultation
• EC's leak describes blocking as "challenging", "costly" and ineffective
• EU institutions want clarifications form Hungary on its media legislation
• European Commission concerned over illegal eavesdropping in Bulgaria
• Romanian NGOs demand stopping data retention in Europe
• Spain: Right to be forgotten and Google
• Sarkozy wants a "civilised" Internet
• ENDitorial: EDRi publishes study on self-regulation and censorship

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• ACTA Blog: Certainly, the professors should know the difference between 'shall' and 'may' (25.01.2011)
• ENISA: Review of the current situation in the implementation of data breach notifications requirement, set up by the Article 4 of the reviewed ePrivacy Directive (14.01.2011)
• Statewatch analysis: Six months on: An update on the UK coalition government's commitment to civil liberties (21.01.2011)
• The Commission is publishing the statistics and the responses to the on-line public consultation on the PSI Directive. The full analysis of the responses will be published in the form of a report in the coming weeks. (20.01.2011)

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

• Web blocking discussions in European Parliament reach critical stage
• EU Commissioner criticises US for the data protection negotiations
• IPR Enforcement Plan: Blocking, filtering and monitoring via injunction
• New media law in Hungary allows Internet censorship
• Polish Supreme Court: All electronic press must be registered
• French law Loppsi 2 adopted by the General Assembly
• RapidShare wins another alleged copyright infringement case
• ENDitorial: EDRi's data retention workshop at CCC

Recommended reading

• This article is also available in Deutsch: Lesestoff
• Report of the "Comité des Sages" reflection group on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online (10.01.2011)
• Article 29 Working Party - Opinion 8/2010 on applicable law (16.12.2010)
• The Statewatch database: 27 000 articles on civil liberties in Europe dating back 20 years
• The SEMDOC website: Statewatch European Monitoring Centre on EU Justice and Home Affairs policy

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