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January 18, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi-gram – Number 10.1, 18 January 2012

January 18, 2012

EDRi supports protests against US blacklist legislation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi unterstützt die Proteste gegen US-Netzsperrengesetze | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_EDRi_unterstuetzt_Proteste_gegen_US-Netzsperrengesetze?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] EDRi supports today’s black-out campaign against SOPA and PIPA and endorses the positions of the human rights international community in criticizing the two draft normative acts from US. Human rights community speaks out on PROTECT IP Act (16.01.2012) https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/human-rights-community-speaks-out-on-protect-ip-act Human […]

January 18, 2012

What's Wrong with ACTA Week

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [What’s Wrong with ACTA Week – Aktionswoche “Was läuft falsch bei ACTA” | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Whats_Wrong_with_ACTA_Aktionswoche?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] Since many politicians and citizens are not yet aware of ACTA’s serious implications, EDRi has launched a “What’s Wrong with ACTA Week”. We have put together five one-page briefing documents which briefly summarise the […]

January 18, 2012

The US pressure on Spain to censor the Internet has paid off

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Internetzensur: Einflussnahme der USA auf Spanien macht sich bezahlt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Internetzensur_Einflussnahme_der_USA_auf_Spanien_macht_sich_bezahlt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] The US has continued to pressure Spain since 2008 to adopt measures against users allegedly illegally downloading copyrighted music and movies from file-sharing networks. And now this pressure has paid off; the Spanish Congress approved at the […]

January 18, 2012

Belarus strongly censors the Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Weißrussland übt starke Internetzensur aus | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Weissrussland_uebt_starke_Internetzensur_aus?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] — Article corrected on 23.01.2012—- 6 January 2012 saw the application of the Belarusian law imposing even more restrictions on online free expression in a country that is already viewed as a dictatorship. Thus, a new law is enacting the sanctions […]

January 18, 2012

Commission confirms illegality of Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommission bestätigt Widerrechtlichkeit der Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Kommission_bestaetigt_Widerrechtlichkeit_der_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] The EDRi-member Quintessenz – Austria has published a leak of an internal paper from the Commission intended to inform DAPIX, the Council’s working party on information exchange and data protection, of the results of the Commission’s consultation in April 2011 on […]

January 18, 2012

Romanian Senate rejects the new data retention law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänien: Senat lehnt neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung ab | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Rumaenien_Senat_lehnt_neues_Gesetz_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_ab?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] Following the pressure of the European Commission to the Romanian authorities to implement the data retention directive and despite the decision of the Constitutional Court from 2009 against the data retention law, a new draft law has emerged, […]

January 18, 2012 · Blogs

Finnish ISP started blocking The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnischer ISP sperrt The Pirate Bay | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Finnischer_ISP_sperrt_The_Pirate_Bay?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] On 9 January 2012, the Helsinki Enforcement authority obligated Finnish ISP Elisa to execute the court ruling that it had to block access to The Pirate Bay from its network. This is the latest phase in an ongoing legal fight […]

January 18, 2012 · Blogs

Dutch Internet providers forced to block The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische ISPs zur Sperre von The Pirate Bay gezwungen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Niederlaendische_ISPs_zur_Sperre_von_The_Pirate_Bay_gezwungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] In its judgement of 11 January 2012, the Court of The Hague granted Dutch copyright enforcement organisation Brein’s request to order Dutch internet providers Ziggo and XS4ALL to block access to The Pirate Bay. This is the […]

January 18, 2012

US continue pushing on EU Commission against Data Protection proposals

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [USA macht weiter Druck auf EU-Kommission und gegen die geplante Datenschutzverordnung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_USA_macht_weiter_Druck_auf_EU-Kommission_und_gegen_geplante_Datenschutzverordnung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] The US Department of Commerce has circulated a second informal note with comments on the proposals for a data protection regulation and a directive on data protection in the field of law enforcement. This time, […]

January 18, 2012

Researchers say smart meter technology is privacy intrusive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Smart Metering: Forscher sehen Verletzung der Privatsphäre | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Smart_Metering_Forscher_sehen_Verletzung_der_Privatsphaere?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] Two German researchers presented a talk entitled “Smart Hacking for Privacy” at the 28th Chaos Computing Congress that took place between 27 and 30 December 2011, on the privacy implications of “smart” electricity meters. These devices, installed in homes, […]

January 18, 2012

ENDitorial: Copyright vs Public Domain-copyright as a barrier to culture?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Urheberrechte vs Gemeinfreiheit als Kulturhindernis? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_ENDitorial_Urheberrechte_vs_Gemeinfreiheit_als_Kulturhindernis?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] “The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as thought it belongs — the word is not too big — to the human species. Any intelligent being has a right to it. If one of the two rights, […]