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EDRi is the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online. We work to to challenge private and state actors who abuse their power to control or manipulate the public. We do so by advocating for robust and enforced laws, informing and mobilising people, promoting a healthy and accountable technology market, and building a movement of organisations and individuals committed to digital rights and freedoms in a connected world.
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Orange is the new blacklist
On Monday morning 17 October, Orange customers who tried to access Google.fr, fr.wikipedia.org and other sites found themselves being redirected to the site of the Interior Ministry explaining that those sites were blocked. The banned websites were accused of “provoking terrorist acts or publicly glorifying terrorist acts”.
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Censorship in Italy: Child protection is the excuse again
One of the recurrent attempts to control the internet is the excuse of “child protection”. Italy has moved a step to this direction, and is going to release a new law against “cyberbullying” that confirms this new trend. This new project follows the same well-worn, failed approach.
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“Follow the money” on copyright infringements
The European Commission is pushing forward energetically on privatised law enforcement projects for all manner of internet activities. This is the approach to terrorism, hate speech, copyright enforcement… whatever the question, the answer is that internet companies can solve the problem.
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Booklet: Your guide to Digital Defenders vs. Data Intruders – Privacy for kids!
The Internet. It's cool, fast and global! But it's also complicated, sometimes. Sometimes it can be difficult to see the risks - where our private stuff online can be read and used by others.
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Booklet: Your guide to the Digital Defenders
Today, we are publishing a booklet "Your guide to Digital Defenders vs. Data Intruders - Privacy for kids!", to help young people between 10-14 years to protect their privacy.
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Corporate-sponsored privacy confusion in the EU on trade and data protection
After the “Privacy shield” was adopted on 12 July 2016, the European Commission started internal discussions about whether or not to include “data flows” and “data localisation” clauses in Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and in the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). It appears that the European Commission Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG […]
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#2 Freedom to have secrets: How to keep your information private
Lee este artículo en español This is the second blogpost of our series dedicated to privacy, security and freedoms. In the coming weeks, we will explain how your freedoms are under threat, and what you can do to fight back. In our previous blogpost we described “cookies” and how they help to make a profile […]
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Big Brother Awards Belgium: Facebook is the privacy villain of the year
Big Brother Awards Belgium 2016 – The Devil is in the Default On 6 October, the Belgian Big Brother Awards 2016 took place in Brussels. The negative prize for the worst privacy abuser was unanimously granted to Facebook by the professional jury. The public confirmed Facebook’s title as the ultimate privacy villain of the year – […]
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e-Privacy Directive: Frequently Asked Questions
(This article is available as well in German and French) What is the e-Privacy Directive? The e-Privacy Directive (ePD) is a Directive covering specific privacy and data protection issues in the electronic communications sector. It was adopted in 2002 and revised in 2009. The official text of the current version can be found here.
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Social media as censors of public sphere: YouTube vs. Ombudsman
In early September 2016, a popular Norwegian writer got suspended from Facebook, on account of “child nudity”. The matter escalated into an international incident, involving Norway’s largest printed newspaper and the country’s prime minister. Finally the writer’s Facebook status was restored, the suspension was ended, and Facebook promised to do better.
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Die ePrivacy-Reform: Häufig gestellte Fragen
Original version here (English) Was ist die ePrivacy-Reform? Die Datenschutzrichtlinie für elektronische Kommunikation (auch: ePrivacy-Richtlinie) ist eine Richtlinie, die sich mit bestimmten, die Privatsphäre und den Datenschutz betreffenden Themen im Bereich der elektronischen Kommunikation auseinandersetzt. Sie wurde 2002 verabschiedet und im Jahre 2009 überarbeitet. Der offizielle Wortlaut der aktuellen Version kann hier abgerufen werden. Sie […]
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The GS Media case: An attack on the world wide web
The cliché goes that “hard cases make for bad law”. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment in GS Media case (C‑160/15) is one of the real-life examples of this. It is not easy to sympathise with the losing party, GS Media, who exploits a provocative blog with the name “GeenStijl” (which […]
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