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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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Complaints against Irish DPA's lack of action against Facebook
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Beschwerden über die Untätigkeit der irischen Datenschutzbehörde in Sachen Facebook | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_Beschwerden_ueber_die_Untaetigkeit_der_irischen_Datenschutzbehoerde_in_Sachen_Facebook?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] Ireland’s data protection authority, ODPC, seems to be deaf to citizens’ complaints against Facebook. According to the non-profit association “Europe versus Facebook”, during the last two years, there have been about 1 000 complaints against Facebook […]
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Apple’s privacy policy breaches German data protection laws
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Apples Datenschutzpolitik verstößt gegen deutsches Recht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_Apples_Datenschutzpolitik_verstoesst_gegen_deutsches_Recht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] The Berlin Regional Court ruled on 7 May 2013 that 8 of Apple’s privacy policy clauses are infringing the German data protection laws and asked the company to rectify them. The case was brought to court by the German consumer […]
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Russia ratifies CoE Convention 108 on data protection
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Russland ratifiziert die Datenschutz-Konvention 108 des Europarats | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_Russland_ratifiziert_die_Datenschutz-Konvention_108_des_Europarats?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] The Russian Federation strengthened its commitment to the protection of personal data by ratifying, on 15 May 2013, the Council of Europe (CoE) Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, also known […]
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Germany: Google must remove autocomplete harmful searches if notified
On 14 May 2013, the German Federal Court ruled that Google auto-complete feature may, under certain circumstances, constitute an infringement of the personality right, under the German Civil Code and the German Basic Law. Since April 2009, Google has introduced an “autocomplete” feature integrated into the search engine, which automatically brings forth suggestions, as word […]
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ENDitorial: European Privacy Association – good, bad or simply misunderstood?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Die European Privacy Association – gut, böse oder einfach nur falsch verstanden? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_ENDitorial_Die_European_Privacy_Association?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] The European Privacy Association, after being caught out for failing to respect the rules of the European Transparency Register, has issued a defence of its actions. An article published by IDG News Service […]
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Neelie Kroes responds: Old mantras and political uncertainty for net neutrality in Europe
Last month, BEUC and EDRi sent a joint call for action to Vice-President Kroes in order to demand a stronger protection of network neutrality in Europe. We called on the Commission to put an end to the current experimentation by certain European access providers with blocking, filtering and throttling of services which are extremely harmful […]
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Protecting the “right” of businesses to secretly make money out of your data
The European Union’s data protection package is supposed to achieve two key goals – the protection of citizens’ fundamental right to data protection and privacy and to avoid barriers to trade in the European single market. Reading some amendments proposed in the European Parliament, one might be forgiven for thinking that the purpose of the […]
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EDRi Organises European Activist Barcamp and Safari on Threats to Citizens’ Privacy Rights (13-15 May)
EDRi is pleased to announce a Barcamp and Safari to address the imminent threats to privacy rights in the EU posed by many of the amendments to the Proposal for Data Protection Regulation currently before the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee of the European Parliament. On Monday, 13 May, 8:30am Institute of […]
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LIBE EP Committee: No PNR data sharing within the EU
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [LIBE-Ausschuss des EP gegen EU-weiten Austausch von PNR-Daten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_LIBE-Ausschuss_des_EP_gegen_EU-weiten_Austausch_von_PNR-Daten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] The directive obliging airlines to pass personal details of EU passengers to the authorities of the EU member states was rejected by the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament (EP) on 24 April 2013. The proposal […]
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Danish phone company kept call records for more than 10 years
According to a series of articles in the Danish edition of Computerworld on 6 May 2013, a Danish mobile phone provider has kept telephone call records since the company started its operations in 2000. The company, Telmore, currently has about 700 000 subscribers and a 10% market share in Denmark. Since 2004, Telmore has been […]
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Greek justice to rule on blocking sites by ISPs
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Griechenland: Justiz muss über Netzsperren durch ISPs entscheiden | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_Griechenland_Justiz_muss_ueber_Netzsperren_durch_ISPs_entscheiden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] AEPI, the Greek Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property, has filed an action in court to have several major torrent sites, among which KickAssTorrents, isoHunt, 1337x and H33T, blocked by ISPs, according to a report from Torrentfreak. […]
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Dutch police wants to hack their citizens' devices
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Polizei will die Geräte ihrer Bürger hacken | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_Niederlande_Polizei_will_die_Geraete_ihrer_Buerger_hacken?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] The police should be allowed to hack into mobile phones and computers, even when these are located abroad. This is proposed in a draft law by the Dutch government on 2 May 2013. While this appears to be […]
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