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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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Turkey: Internet Report on digital rights 2012
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Türkei: Bericht über Digitale Rechte 2012 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Tuerkei_Bericht_ueber_Digitale_Rechte_2012?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] On 28 September 2012, the Turkish Internet Report 2012 was issued by EDRi observer Alternative Informatics Association showing a worrying tendency of Internet censorship and control from Turkish authorities. According to the report, more and more case have been filed […]
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Google threatens to exclude the French online press from its search
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google droht der französischen Online-Presse mit Ausschluss aus der Google-Suche | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Google_droht_der_franzoesischen_Online-Presse_mit_Ausschluss_aus_der_Google-Suche?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] GESTE, a French group of online editors, has been trying for a few years now to get part of Google’s revenues generated by its news service with indexed titles. “Google has developed on our content” said […]
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Dutch proposal to search and destroy foreign computers
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Vorstoß zur Suche und Zerstörung fremder Computer | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Niederlande_Vorstoss_zur_Suche_und_Zerstoerung_fremder_Computer?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] On 15 October 2012, the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security proposed powers for the police to break into computers, install spyware, search computers and destroy data. These powers would extend to computers located outside the Netherlands. EDRi […]
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Details on German State Trojan programme
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Details zum Deutschen Staatstrojaner | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Details_zum_Deutschen_Staatstrojaner?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] Some documents spotted by the Annalist blog that were issued by the German Government in July 2012, within a parliamentary enquiry about expenditures by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, clearly show more details about what was revealed a year ago […]
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UN Agencies: A growing threat for the Internet?
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), led by Russian diplomat, Yury Fedotov, has just released a report (pdf) arguing for more surveillance and retention of data on all communications, even in the total absence of suspicion. Coincidentally, the Coordinator of the elegantly named 1267 Committee that was in charge of the report […]
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EDRi has a new office!
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Portugal: File-sharing for personal use is not infringing the law
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Portugal: Filesharing für private Zwecke verstößt nicht gegen das Gesetz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Portugal_Filesharing_fuer_private_Zwecke_verstoesst_nicht_gegen_das_Gesetz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The Portuguese prosecutors division DIAP (Department of Investigations and Criminal Acts) have recently ruled against ACAPOR (the Association of Audiovisual Commerce of Cultural Works and Entertainment of Portugal) in a case the latter initiated in 2011 […]
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Macedonian draft law may introduce online censorship
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mazedonien: Neues Gesetz könnte zu Internetzensur führen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Mazedonien_Neues_Gesetz_koennte_zu_Internetzensur_fuehren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] A draft law on civil liability for insult and defamation related to communication over the Internet, which has passed the first reading in the Macedonian Parliament, may lead to strong censorship of the Internet. According to the draft law, […]
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Slovak Constitutional Court receives data retention complaint
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowakei: Verfassungsklage gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingereicht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Slowakei_Verfassungsklage_gegen_die_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_eingereicht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The group of Slovak MPs filed the complaint against the data retention before the Slovak Constitutional Court on 9 October 2012. They requested the Constitutional Court to rule on the local implementation of the data retention and scrutinize its conformity […]
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Azeri opposition blogger arrested
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Aserbaidschan: Oppositioneller Blogger verhaftet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_%20Aserbaidschan_Oppositioneller_Blogger_verhaftet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] A new arrest made by the Azeri authorities raise concerns over the freedom of speech in Azerbaijan ahead of the next year’s general elections. The well-known blogger and opposition activist Zaur Gurbanli was arrested from his home on 29 September 2012 by […]
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“CLEAN IT”: the secret EU surveillance plan that wasn’t
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [“CLEAN IT”: Der geheime Überwachungsplan, der keiner war | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_CLEAN_IT_Der_geheime_Ueberwachungsplan_der_keiner_war?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] There was a lot of interest among EU policy wonks and digital rights people last week about an initiative called CLEAN IT, following the leak of its “confidential” draft recommendations. “Police to ‘patrol’ Facebook and Twitter for terrorists […]
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ENDitorial: The ETNO's WCIT proposals are not as bad as some say
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Der WCIT-Vorschlag der ETNO ist nicht so schlimm wie manche sagen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_ENDitorial_Der_WCIT-Vorschlag_der_ETNO_ist_nicht_so_schlimm_wie_manche_sagen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] Many people have criticised the ETNO’s proposals for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), arguing that these would significantly damage net neutrality. These criticisms are not entirely correct – because ETNO’s proposals are […]
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