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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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Remember: Giancarlo Livraghi
Giancarlo Livraghi, the first president and founding member of EDRi member ALCEI Italy, passed away last Saturday. An active advocate of net freedom and culture, Giancarlo was also contributor to EDRi-gram on various ENDitorials trying to explain for our readership the Italian intricacies of Internet politics. His texts and thoughts are accurate even today, several […]
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Linking content does not infringe copyright says ECJ
On 21 February 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that a website could not be found to have infringed copyright for merely linking to content hosted elsewhere. The advice was given for the Svea hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal, Sweden), in a case involving local journalists and aggregation Swedish company Retriever Sverige, a […]
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The Turkish Government is trying to justify Internet censorship
A large and aggressive campaign has been deployed by the Turkish ruling party AKP (Justice and Development Party) over the last few weeks in an attempt to justify Internet censorship. Paid-for advertising, press statements, op-eds in pro-government newspapers or tweets were meant to press the idea that censorship is a mean to protect Internet users […]
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German ministers and Wikileaks on the NSA surveillance list
As if what has been revealed until now were not enough, after being ordered by President Barack Obama to stop spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, it appears that NSA has decided to extend its spying activities to other German government officials. “We have had the order not to miss out on any information now that […]
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Merkel wants “Safe Communication Networks” for the EU
In the light of the NSA spying scandal, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced plans to set up a European communications network meant to curb the US and GCHQ mass surveillance. “We will speak to France about this and about all things regarding what kind of European providers we have who can offer security for […]
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Net neutrality in the European Parliament – what is happening?
After seven months of discussions, negotiations, lobbying and general confusion, the European Parliament’s Industry Committee was due to have a vote on Monday of this week on net neutrality. So… what happened? Well, nothing happened. Not exactly nothing… quite a long discussion in fact. There were just two items on the agenda, a vote on […]
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Private copying levies – the choice between incoherence and a fair and balanced approach
After being delayed from December to January and from January to February, the incoherent, inaccurate, incomprehensible, contradictory “Castex Report” (PDF) on private copying levies was finally adopted by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament last week. Next week**, the European Parliament has the choice to accept the deeply flawed text adopted by the […]
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European Commission on global internet governance – do as we say, please don’t do as we do
On 12 February, the European Commission produced a broadly solid Communication (pdf) on global internet governance. Some of the policies promoted on a global level by the European Commission are really excellent – defend and promote fundamental rights and democratic values, multi-stakeholder governance structures, clear rules that respect rights and values and a single unfragmented […]
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Success or failure of the W3C’s DNT working group?
On 21 January 2014 MEPs Amelia Andersdottir (Greens/EFA) and Françoise Castex (S+D) organised a panel with the title “Do Not Track – Is Self-Regulation Enough?” with among others Robert Madelin (DG-CONNECT) and François Dubois (DG-JUST) on the panel. The discussion concentrated mainly on the perceived success or failure of the W3C’s DNT working group on […]
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European Parliament vote on Collective Rights Management Directive
On 3 February 2014, the European Parliament adopted new rules for collective management organisations and for cross-border licences for online music services. The Directive was adopted by 640 votes in favour, 18 against and 22 abstentions – which is an impressive majority. On one hand, the text improves the management of collective management organisations (CMOs), […]
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Google France published CNIL’s fine on its homepage
On 7 February 2014, the French State Council rejected Google’s request made on 14 January 2014 to partially suspend the penalty received for privacy infringement from CNIL – the French Data Protection Authority. On 3 January 2014, CNIL fined Google 150 000 euro over its privacy policies and was required to post a message regarding […]
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Hacktivists targeted by British spies
According to documents released by Snowden on NSA activities, a secret British division of GCHQ named Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), meant to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies, was targeting the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec. The documents reveal that JTRIG launched a “denial of service” (DDOS) attack (dubbed Rolling Thinder) and other […]
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