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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 German Parliament urges the government to limit software patents
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Bundestag drängt auf Begrenzung von Software-Patenten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_Deutscher_Bundestag_draengt_auf_Begrenzung_von_Software-Patenten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] On 7 June 2013, the German Parliament unanimously decided upon a joint motion to limit software patents urging the government to take measures in this sense. In the German MPs’ opinion, supported by several SME associations, software should be […]
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Still no access to ACTA documents
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Noch immer kein Zugang zu ACTA-Dokumenten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_Noch_immer_kein_Zugang_zu_ACTA-Dokumenten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] Today, 19 June 2013, the European Commission answered within the time limit it had set for itself to answer to DFRI’s requests for ACTA documents. On 29 May 2013 the Commission extended the time limit with 15 working days arguing […]
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ENDitorial: #ResistSocialMedia in Turkey
The wave of resistance that started at Gezi Park on the 29 May 2013 in Istanbul and has since spread all over Turkey once again revealed a deep connection between real time communication on social media and social movements. Throughout the protests, social media platforms have become the primary news source in this environment where […]
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Data protection in TTIP/TAFTA – how to make a bad situation worse
Data protection in TTIP/TAFTA – how to make a bad situation worse The Financial Times and Washington Post reported on 13 June that the European Commission – before the full scope of PRISM became known – watered down its proposed Data Protection Regulation to weaken rules for transferring data to law enforcement authorities outside the […]
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The Data Protection Archive
This archive gathers all documents and material produced by EDRi on the Data Protection Regulation and Directive. Index: Full position paper Comments on draft reports and amendments Campaign material Websites Articles 2011 Articles 2012 Articles 2013 Full position paper Position on the Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of […]
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Viviane Reding dismantles UK's arguments against effective data protection
On 6 June 2013, European Commission Vice-President Vivane Reding responded to a letter sent to her two days earlier by Chris Grayling MP, UK Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Her letter surgically dismantles the lobby-driven analysis of the data protection debate from the UK. Chris Grayling forwarded a public letter of the […]
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PRISM explains the wider lobbying issues surrounding EU data protection reform
The European Commission’s Communication on Cloud Computing (pdf) forecasts a spend of 45 billion Euro on such services in the EU in 2020. The stakes are therefore huge for the countries and regions that can show themselves to be trustworthy for the processing of both personal and business data. With no comprehensive federal privacy legislation […]
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Turkish demonstrations using social media despite censorship
In other times, events as those taking place in Turkey now would have probably been much unknown to the rest of the world. But, over the past several years, social media has developed spectacularly and with it, its role in promoting, organizing and responding to protest and revolution. The protests taking place in Turkey, organized […]
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Council of Europe to step up for Net Neutrality
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europarat tritt für Netzneutralität ein | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.11_Europarat_tritt_fuer_Netzneutralitaet_ein?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130605] As a follow-up to the Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on network neutrality, and in the implementation of the Internet Governance Strategy 2012-2015, the Council of Europe has organised on 29-30 May 2013 a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Network Neutrality and […]
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EDRi analysis on private copying levy
The debate on the private copying levy that is imposed in some EU Member States has been carried out for years and yet no solution has been found yet. The issue is also part of the wider discussion on copyright, its adaptation to the digital age and its legitimacy in the eyes of the citizen. […]
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Will the new data protection rules be even weaker than the old ones?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Wird das neue Datenschutzgesetz schlechter als das alte? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.11_Wird_das_neue_Datenschutzgesetz_schlechter_als_das_alte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130605] The draft regulation on data protection proposed by the European Commission in January 2012 is being debated by MEPs to decide on de direction of the vote to be taken in the civil liberties committee, possibly at the […]
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EC goes after governments for not implementing data retention
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommission geht gegen Mitgliedsländer wegen Nicht-Umsetzung der Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung vor | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.11_Kommission_geht_gegen_Mitgliedslaender_wegen_Nicht-Umsetzung_der_Richtlinie_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_vor?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130605] On 30 May 2013, the European Court of Justice ordered Sweden to pay the European Commission 3 million euro for the delay in transposing the 2006 EU data retention directive into its national law. Sweden […]
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