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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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Licences for Europe: Request to broaden the discussions
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Licences for Europe: Die Diskussion muss breiter werden | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Licences_for_Europe_Die_Diskussion_muss_breiter_werden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] In December 2012, the European Commission announced a stakeholder dialogue to discuss innovative solution to improve cross-border access to online content. The stated aim of the initiative was to work with stakeholders on modernising copyright while the Commission […]
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French intelligence wants Wikipedia to delete online content
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französischer Geheimdienst verlangt Löschung eines Wikipedia-Artikels | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Franzoesischer_Geheimdienst_verlangt_Loeschung_eines_Wikipedia-Artikels?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] The Wikimedia Foundation was asked on 4 March 2013, by French spy agency Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI), to remove its article in French “Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre sur Haute” (the military station of Pierre sur Haute) considered […]
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Self-regulation: Irish police database – “some sort of social media”
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Selbstregulierung: Irische Polizeidatenbank – quasi ein “soziales Netzwerk” | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Selbstregulierung_Irische_Polizeidatenbank_quasi_ein_soziales_Netzwerk?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Alan Shatter, the Irish Minister of Justice, has demanded an end to the abuse of the PULSE police database. In a sharply worded speech to the Association of Garda [Irish police] Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) conference, he said […]
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Skype and criminal law enforcement data requests in 2012
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Skype: Auskunftsbegehren von Strafverfolgungsbehörden 2012 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Skype_und_Auskunftsersuchen_von_Strafverfolgungsbehoerden_2012?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Microsoft released its first-ever transparency report, the 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report, explaining its approach to criminal law enforcement data requests around the globe. The report includes detailed information and data about the communications platform Skype, making it the first official […]
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DFRI asks EP President Schulz for missing ACTA documents
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [DFRI verlangt fehlende ACTA-Dokumente von EP-Präsident Schulz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_DFRI_verlangt_fehlende_ACTA-Dokumente_von_EP-Praesident_Schulz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Swedish EDRi-member DFRI (Föreningen för digitala fri- och rättigheter) has asked the president of the European Parliament about a question from the Court of Justice of the European Union to the Commission that, according to a Commission spokesperson, made […]
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European consumers attitudes on privacy
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einstellung europäischer Verbraucher zum Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Einstellung_europaeischer_Verbraucher_zum_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Some interesting results from a quantitative and qualitative analysis made by the EU-funded CONSENT project to find out about the consumers’ attitudes awareness of privacy issues online and service providers’ practices were presented at the final conference of the project, that […]
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Swedish police to increase its fight against file-sharing
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schwedische Polizei will härter gegen File-Sharer vorgehen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Schwedische_Polizei_will_haerter_gegen_File-Sharer_vorgehen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] In a recent report, Sweden’s National Police Board proposes measures meant to increase its performance in fighting copyright infringements, as a result of meetings with entertainment company rightsholders. The changes proposed include the creation of a team focused on […]
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A few days left to answer the IPRED consultation
On 30 March 2013, the consultation on the intellectual property rights enforcement directive (IPRED) will be over. This means that you have three more days to let the European Commission know your thoughts on the current enforcement of copyright in the European Union. The European Commission now wants to evaluate the efficiency of the current […]
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Civil society wants no intellectual property provisions in TAFTA
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zivilgesellschaft gegen Urheberrechtsbestimmungen in TAFTA | /EDRigram_11.6_Zivilgesellschaft_gegen_Urheberrechtsbestimmungen_in_TAFTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] More than 45 civil society organisations from US and Europe, including EDRi, ask that the proposed EU-US trade agreement called Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) should exclude any provisions related to patents, copyright, trademarks, or other forms of so-called “intellectual property”. […]
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CryptoParty in Brussels
The protection of personal data is a trending topic – not only on the political scene in Brussels but also as a result of CryptoParties, which have become a decentralised global movement in past months. Protecting our data, information and privacy is of vital importance, particularly on the internet. We always try to ensure adequate […]
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Online piracy is not to be blamed for the drop in music revenues
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Online-Piraterie nicht schuld an rückläufigen Musikumsätzen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.6_Online-Piraterie_nicht_schuld_an_ruecklaeufigen_Musikumsaetzen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] As continuously argued by different IT specialists, digital freedom activists and organisations during the last few years, online piracy does not affect music industry revenues, as it is shown by a new research performed by The Institute for Prospective Technological […]
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Is Facebook applying censorship?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Betreibt Facebook Zensur? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.6_Betreibt_Facebook_Zensur?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] On 18 March 2013, the German radio presenter Jürgen Domian accused Facebook of censorship after some of his posts in which he had made some remarks about the new Pope, were deleted without warning by the social network. Domian said he believed Facebook […]
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