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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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Iceland’s Supreme Court lifted the financial blocking of Wikileaks
Iceland’s Supreme Court ruled on 24 April 2013 that Valitor, Visa’s local partner in Iceland, had to resume processing online donations to WikiLeaks within two weeks or face a daily fine of around 5200 Euro in case of non-compliance, thus backing up the decision taken by a lower Icelandic court in July 2012. “This is […]
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ENDitorial: Last Call for the W3C Do Not Track process
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Letzte Chance für die Do-Not-Track-Initiative des W3C | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] As we write this the W3C DNT working group is convening in Sunnyvale, California. This working group has been trying to come up with a mechanism to allow users to express their preferences regarding cross-context tracking of their […]
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Google’s antitrust proposals under scrutiny
On 25 April 2013, the European Commission invited all interested parties to comment on Google’s proposed commitments to meet the Commission’s concerns formally drafted in March 2013 regarding to Google’s four types of businesses that might violate EU antitrust rules prohibiting the abuse of a dominant position. The Commission has concerns that Google might abuse […]
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Press release: Regulation set to strip citizens of their right privacy
Civil rights groups urgently demand that Members of the European Parliament protect the privacy of their citizens. The European Parliament is considering dangerous amendments to the Commission’s proposals. These amendments would strip citizens of their privacy rights, according to a report (pdf) from a coalition of civil rights groups. The report bases its findings on […]
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German ISP imposes data caps, discriminates in favour of own services
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Telekom drosselt das Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.8_Deutsche_Telekom_drosselt_das_Internet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130424] On 22 April 2013, the biggest German Internet operator Deutsche Telekom officially confirmed abandoning all contracts that offer flat rates for fixed Internet connections. Instead of investing in urgently needed broadband infrastructure in Germany, the operator announced starting throttling connections and […]
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Turkish pianist sentenced for comments on Twitter
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Meinungsfreiheit: Türkischer Pianist wegen Twitter-Kommentaren verurteilt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.8_Meinungsfreiheit_Tuerkischer_Pianist_wegen_Twitter-Kommentaren_verurteilt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130424] On 15 April 2013, the Criminal Court of Justice of Istanbul gave Turkish pianist Fazil Say a 10 month suspended jail sentence over comments on Twitter, deciding he was guilty of violating an article of the Turkish Criminal Code that […]
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Big Brother Awards Germany 2013
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Big Brother Awards 2013 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.8_Deutsche_Big_Brother_Awards_2013?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130424] On 12 April 2013 the thirteenth German Big Brother Awards gala was held in Bielefeld, Germany. Organised by EDRi member digitalcourage, the awards featured five winners in different categories. No winners showed up to collect their award – in fact, only […]
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A Monster from Rome – huge crackdown action on "file-sharing"
In an action that has become known as “A Monster from Rome”, the Italian Public Prosecutor of Rome ordered on 15 April 2013 the blocking of 27 file-sharing related sites at the request of Sunshine Pictures, the Italian distributor of the French animated film “A Monster in Paris”. The list which has been made public […]
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Finland: Common Sense in Copyright Law
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnland: Gesunder Menschenverstand im Urheberrecht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.8_Finnland_Gesunder_Menschenverstand_im_Urheberrecht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130424] The Finnish campaign “Common Sense in Copyright Law” organized a blackout day 23 April 2013 to market the citizens’ initiative, which would strip the worst parts out of the Finnish copyright law and add German-style fairness-requirement to the copyright contracts. More […]
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