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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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The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics under strong surveillance
According to documents collected by two Russian journalists, experts in security services, and shared with The Guardian, the Russian Government is prepared to deploy one of the most spectacular and invasive surveillance and spying system that will affect not only the athletes or spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February 2014. Procurement documents […]
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Has Switzerland Become A Center Of Spy Technology Exports?
On 26 September 2013, Privacy International sent a letter to Ueli Maurer, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence showing concern regarding the many companies asking for licenses to export surveillance technology from Switzerland. Some media reports revealed in August 2013 that companies such as Gamma International (well known for the notorious malware soft […]
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LSE Report: File-Sharing Is Rather Beneficial To Music Industry
A new report shows again file-sharing is not detrimental to the entertainment industry sales, but quite the opposite. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has released a new policy brief asking the UK Government to take into consideration more than the industry lobbying efforts when deciding on the copyright enforcement policies such […]
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Recommended Reading
EDRi Reponse to Green Paper Preparing for a Fully Converged Audiovisual World: (26.09.2013) http://www.edri.org/files/26092013-EDRi-GreenPaper-Converged-Audiovisu… Belgian ‘Royal Decree’ Requires ISPs To Log All Sorts Of Info For A Year (9.10.2013) http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131009/01172724806/belgian-royal-de… What’s wrong with ANPR – No CCTV’s report on number plate cameras in UK (10.2013) http://www.no-cctv.org.uk/docs/Whats%20Wrong%20With%20ANPR-No%20CCTV%2… German Federal Intelligence Service taps up to 25 providers […]
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Agenda
14-18 October 2013, Athens, Greece RIPE67 Meeting https://ripe67.ripe.net/ 21-27 October 2013, Worldwide Open Access week http://www.openaccessweek.org/events 22-25 October 2013, Bali, Indonesia Internet Governance Forum 2013 http://igf2013.or.id/ 24 October 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia The LAPSI 2.0 Conference: “The new PSI directive: What’s next?” http://www.lapsi-project.eu/lapsi-20-conferences 25-27 October 2013, Siegen, Germany Cyberpeace – FIfF Annual Meeting 2013 http://www.fiff.de/ 19-20 […]
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ENDitorial: Lessons From The Failure Of Licences For Europe
Now that the Licences for Europe has failed so comprehensively, it is time to reflect on what types of voluntary or self-regulatory initiatives are likely to work and which are likely to fail. Last May, at the Stockholm Internet Forum, EDRi ran an “unconference” session, which brainstormed about what characteristics a self-regulatory initiative would need […]
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ENDitorial: Licences for Europe – user generated content and Commission-generated users
While the entire “Licences for Europe” project has been through a lot of turmoil and subsequently criticised for its lack of credibility, the so-called “Working Group 2 on User-Generated Content” takes absurdity to a whole new dictionary-changing level. One of the “user” groups that was invited by the Commission, at the request of Neelie Kroes’s […]
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Protect privacy against unchecked Internet surveillance!
EDRi joined a huge international coalition in calling upon European and UN institutions to assess whether national and international surveillance laws and activities are in line with their international human rights obligations. EDRi has endorsed a set of international principles against unchecked surveillance. The 13 Principles set out for the first time an evaluative framework […]
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Belgium ISP under cyberattack by British intelligence
Edward Snowden’s opened Pandora box keeps revealing extended eavesdropping of intelligence services. As some new leaked documents and slides show, Belgium ISP Belgacom, which includes as customers the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament, was targeted by GCHQ, the British intelligence service. On 16 September 2013, Belgacom expressed concern regarding an intrusion into its IT systems, having […]
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The Russian website blacklist shows its limits
Russia has operated since 2012 a national blacklist of sites that allegedly do not comply with the law. The website blacklist currently includes hundreds of websites, from those promoting drug taking and suicide to those offering child pornography, but also sites that infringe the anti-piracy law. All these websites are to be blocked at the ISP level. Moreover, the legislation […]
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Spain: New penal sanctions proposed for alleged illegal linking
Spain plans to toughen its legislation by including penal sanctions for publishing links to alleged pirated content. From a very relaxed environment some years ago, Spain is, more and more, giving in to US pressure after having been threatened to be put on the blacklisted countries. Since his election in December 2011, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has […]
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Surveillance scandal in discussion at the United Nations
The surveillance scandal has now reached the United Nation’s Human Rights Council, which opened its 24th session last week to a volley of questions about privacy and spying, many of them targeted at the United States and United Kingdom. (That’s perhaps not surprising, since U.N. representatives were among those listed as being monitored by the […]
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