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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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European Court of Justice ruling in the Bonnier case
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs in der Rechtssache Bonnier | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Entscheidung_des_Europaeischen_Gerichtshofs_in_der_Rechtssache_Bonnier?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP) Perfect Telecommunication to court, to obtain an order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked […]
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Spain: Draft law criminalising online organisation of public protests
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanien: Gesetzesvorstoß zur Kriminalisierung von Protestaufrufen im Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Spanien_Gesetzesvorstoss_zur_Kriminalisierung_von_Protestaufrufen_im_Internet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] The Spanish Government intends to pass a reform of the Penal Code that would criminalise the organisation of street protests that “seriously disturb the public peace”, by any kind of media including online social networks such as Facebook. […]
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Thousands of Austrians standing up against data retention
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Tausende Österreicher wehren sich gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Tausende_Oesterreicher_wehren_sich_gegen_die_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] Two parallel initiatives by the Austrian AK Vorrat (working group data retention) are impressively supported by the general public. On the one hand, the citizens initiative for the abolishment of the EU data retention directive and the evaluation of […]
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EU Parliament agrees to EU-US PNR Agreement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament stimmt PNR-Abkommen mit den USA zu | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Europaeisches_Parlament_stimmt_PNR-Abkommen_mit_den_USA_zu?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] On 19 April 2012, MEPs decided on the controversial EU-US Agreement on the use and transfer of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to the US Department of Homeland Security. A motion for a resolution asking for an opinion […]
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YouTube loses a case in Germany to collective society Gema
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Youtube verliert im Fall gegen GEMA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Youtube_verliert_im_Fall_gegen_GEMA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] A German court decided on 20 April 2012 that YouTube was indirectly liable for the copyrighted content posted by its users in a case brought to court in 2010 by the royalty collective society Gema. In this case, the defendant […]
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FBI seizure to threaten anonymity and freedom of speech
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Beschlagnahmung durch FBI bedroht Anonymität und Redefreiheit | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Beschlagnahmung_durch_FBI_bedroht_Anonymitaet_und_Redefreiheit?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] On 18 April 2012, a server shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City and operated by the European Counter Network (ECN) was seized by a search warrant issued at the request of FBI. ECN, […]
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Big Brother Awards Germany 2012
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Big Brother Awards Deutschland 2012 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Big_Brother_Awards_Deutschland_2012?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] EDRi member FoeBuD staged the twelfth German Big Brother Awards on Friday, 13 April 2012 in Bielefeld, Germany. Seven “winners” were presented, and as in most years, none of these sent a representative to receive their award. Still, the organisers suspect […]
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ENDitorial: The day the HADOPI stream flowed into the Pirate Bay
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Der Tag, an dem sich der Hadopi-Strom in die Piratenbucht ergoß | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] On 16 April 2012, the HADOPI Authority published a study on economic models of streaming and downloading services and websites of illegal content (notwithstanding the fact that the content is legal). Included in the […]
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Bonnier Audio ruling in the Court of Justice – core questions left unanswered
Ruling Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP), Perfect Telecommunication, to court to obtain a court order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) if, assuming such a measure was […]
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Is the G8 already working on a new ACTA?
Czech language version A leaked G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and USA) document gives the strongest indication yet that the leading countries behind ACTA are working on the basis that the Agreement is now in serious trouble and needs to be fundamentally re-thought and re-worked – and in its current form […]
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ACTA revival – MEP Gallo proposes meaningless compromise
Marielle Gallo MEP (EPP, France) has published her draft report (only in French for the moment) for the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). As one would expect, she is urging her colleagues to support ACTA. She is also launching the counter-strategy described in an article published on the EDRi website […]
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Draft Online Safety Bill to block pornographic sites in UK
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [UK: Gesetz über Online-Sicherheit zur Sperre pornografischer Seiten in Vorbereitung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.7_UK_Gesetz_ueber_Online-Sicherheit_zur_Sperre_pornografischer_Seiten_in_Vorbereitungpk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120411] A new bill proposed to the House of Lords by Baroness Howe of Ildicote, requires ISPs and mobile operators to “provide a service that excludes pornographic images” and electronic device manufacturers to include ways to filter […]
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