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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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Current EU consultations of importance to digital rights
The European Commission frequently organises consultations, which are open not only to industry but also civil society and individual citizens. These are valuable opportunities to shape policy in a positive way from the outset rather than needing to take to the streets when the wrong policy is developed based on bad analysis. There are currently […]
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Marielle Gallo MEP condemns the “soft-terrorism” of the anti-ACTA campaign
This interview was translated and republished with the kind permission of PCinpact. We have added our comments on some of the misinformation in Ms Gallo’s statements. See notes 1-6 at the end of the article. Marielle Gallo, who is a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels, proposed a draft […]
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MEP Gallo's defence of her PC Inpact article
Following the criticism she received regarding her recent PC Inpact interview, Marielle Gallo published a letter on her website. As we published our translation of the interview, we felt it was fair to also publish her defence. We have included some notes and clarifications in the translation. “Many of you replied to the interview in […]
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Commission and industry attacks on Parliament hit a new low
For the past few months, the European Commission and industry lobbyists have tried to pressure the European Parliament into abdicating responsibility for ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Instead, the Parliament has given the proposal an inordinate amount of attention, with five different committees devoting huge amounts of time and resources to the proposal. Five different […]
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Google Transparency report: increasing trend of government censorship
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google Transparenzbericht: Staatliche Zensur nimmt zu | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Google_Transparenzbericht_Staatliche_Zensur_nimmt_zu?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] According to Google’s latest bi-annual transparency report covering the July-December 2011 period, the number of governmental requests for users’ private data and content taking down has continued to grow. The report shows the situation for each country separately and refers […]
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German news article removed from search results after DMCA complaint
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Artikel nach DMCA-Löschantrag entfernt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Deutscher_Artikel_nach_DMCA-Loeschantrag_entfernt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] European procedures for the removal of online content that is judged or accused of being illegal currently depend on the interpretation of the e-Commerce Directive by Member States and private companies. This means that whenever sites, blog posts, images or comments […]
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Article 29 WP’s opinion on the cookie exemptions
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Artikel 29 Gruppe über Ausnahmen für den Einsatz von Cookies | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Artikel29_Gruppe_ueber_Ausnahmen_fuer_den_Einsatz_von_Cookies?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] On 12 June 2012, the Article 29 Working Party (WP 29) published an opinion on the issue, focusing on two exemption criteria established by the new cookie-related provisions in the ePrivacy Directive: A- the use of […]
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UK websites might have to identify “trolls”
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Websitenbetreiber sollen „Trolle“ identifizieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Britische_Websitenbetreiber_sollen_Trolle_identifizieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] According to the new UK government proposals, website operators might soon have to identify users who have posted defamatory messages online, so that the victims of the respective messages may take legal action against the “trolls”. Presently in UK, a website […]
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Spanish Supreme Court says Google is not breaching copyright
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanien: Google verstößt nicht gegen Urheberrecht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Spanien_Google_verstoesst_nicht_gegen_Urheberrecht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] The Spanish Supreme Court ruled on 3 April 2012 that Google was not in breach of copyright with its browser and cache services. The ruling was given in a case filed in 2006 by the owner of a web page […]
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Google’s Street View privacy breach again in the public eye
Recently, the UK Data Protection Authority – Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has decided to reopen its investigation on Google over the collection of personal information by Google Street View project from May 2010. As a reaction to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s report issued earlier this year into the Street View data collection, ICO […]
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Prague ICANN meeting to discuss Whois data
An ICANN meeting will be held in Prague between 24-29 June 2012, where issues and topics impacting users, consumers and registrants, like whois access and the extension of domain space with ongoing new gTLD program, will be discussed. As a reminder, ICANN is an Internet governing body managing mainly IP addressing and domain names and […]
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Culture: Global changes in production and consumption
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kultur: Globaler Wandel in Produktion und Konsum | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Kultur_Globaler_Wandel_in_Produktion_und_Konsum?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] The Green MEPs Eva Lichtenberger, Sandrine Bélier and Helga Trüpel hosted an event on 7 June 2012 in the European Parliament on the global changes in production and consumption of cultural goods. The first speaker at the event was […]
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