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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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This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Unterstützen Sie EDRi | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Unterstuetzen_Sie_EDRi?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Increasingly, your digital freedom is under threat. And unfortunately, mostly as a result of European rules. Europe agreed to transfer your travel data wholesale to the US. Europe obliged your telephone provider to store your location, sometimes for up to two years. And […]
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Council of Europe and European Commission initiatives on Internet freedom
On 8 December, the Council of Europe launched a very important Declaration on “the protection of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association with regard to privately operated Internet platforms and online service providers.” The text picks up many of the themes and priorities of EDRi’s study, published in January of this year, […]
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Brief overview of the leaked EU Data Protection Regulation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein Überblick über die geleakte EU-Datenschutzverordnung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Ein_Ueberblick_ueber_die_geleakte_EU-Datenschutzverordnung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Last week, Europe was able to get a first glance at the “General Data Protection Regulation” thanks to a leak by Statewatch. It is due to be officially published on 25 January 2012 and will repeal the outdated Data Protection […]
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Russian Government's new attempts to censor the Internet
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Die neuesten Versuche der russischen Regierung das Internet zu zensieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Die_neuesten_Versuche_der_russischen_Regierung_das_Internet_zu_zensieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Especially during the period before and immediately after the Russian parliamentary elections of 4 December 2011, government censorship attacked not only traditional media, but also the Internet, which plays now a very important role in the […]
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European Parliament: raising awareness on "self"-regulation
What better way to raise awareness on private policing on the Internet than to organise a workshop in the European Parliament and let the stakeholders answer the question: “Self-regulation: Should online companies police the internet?” On 7 December 2011 MEP Marietje Schaake organized, with support from EDRi, an event on this issue. Among the speakers […]
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Austria: Petition against Data Retention Directive
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreichische Bürger_inneninitiative gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Oesterreichische_Buerger_inneninitiative_gegen_die_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Today, 14 December 2011, the Austrian Arbeitskreis Vorratsdaten (Working Group against Data Retention Austria – AKVorrat.at) handed over a petition to the Austrian Parliament, asking for the government to be obliged to engage against the Data Retention Directive at the EU […]
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German web blocking law repealed
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsches Netzsperrengesetz außer Kraft gesetzt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Deutsches_Netzsperrengesetz_ausser_Kraft_gesetzt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] After more than two years of discussions and opposition, on 1 December 2011, the German Parliament has finally taken the decision to drop the Access Impediment Act, the law that proposed blocking access to websites deemed to have child pornographic content. […]
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A fair Internet for all?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein gerechtes Internet für alle? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Ein_gerechtes_Internet_fuer_alle?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] On 1 December 2011, the European Parliament’s European People’s Party (EPP) group presented their strategy paper “A fair Internet for all – Strengthening Our Citizens’ Rights and Securing a Fair Business Environment in the Internet”. In this webstreamed hearing, the MEPs […]
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UK: Medical records in the open data programme?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB: Medizinische Daten im „Open Data“-Programm? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_GB_Medizinische_Daten_im_Open_Data-Programm?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that, under his “open data” programme, all UK medical records will in future be made available to researchers in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry, unless patients opt out. They will be “anonymised”; at […]
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Transatlantic data privacy in debate at Privacy Conference
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Datenschutzkonferenz: Debatte über einen transatlantischen Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Datenschutzkonferenz_Debatte_ueber_den_transatlantischen_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] The 2nd edition of the Annual European Data Protection and Privacy Conference took place on 6 December 2011, mostly featuring speakers pulled from its corporate sponsors, although it also included a few key European institutions’ representatives and data protection officials. […]
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EDRi transparency complaint to EU Ombudsman
EDRi launches complaint on lack of transparency of European Parliament on ACTA Over the past six months, EDRi has made repeated requests to the European Parliament for access to ACTA documents. Despite having voted not fewer than four times in favour of more transparency in this dossier, the Parliament has consistently refused our applications. Regrettably, […]
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New Guidelines to RFID Privacy Impact Assessments
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neuer Leitfaden zur RFID-Folgenabschätzung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Neuer_Leitfaden_zur_RFID_Folgenabschaetzung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] On 25 November 2011 the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the Institute for Management Information Systems of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) held an expert symposium on RFID Privacy Impact Assessments in Berlin and presented their […]
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