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Draft Council conclusions on Net Neutrality
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Rat: Entwurf des Ratsbeschlusses zur Netzneutralität | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Entwurf_des_Ratsbeschlusses_zur_Netzneutralitaet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] On 15 July 2011, the Council (of the EU Member States) published Draft “Conclusions” (a policy statement) on Net Neutrality. In the document, the Council underlined the need to preserve the open and neutral character of the Internet and established […]
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EU countries to explain lack of implementation of the Telecoms Package
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Staaten müssen sich für bisherige Nicht-Umsetzung der EU-Telekommunikationsvorschriften rechtfertigen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_EU-Staaten_muessen_sich_fuer_Nicht-Umsetzung_der_EU-Telekommunikationsvorschriften_rechtfertigen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice requesting information from 20 EU countries regarding the reasons why they have not yet fully implemented the EU Telecoms Package. The EU member states were supposed to produce […]
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Germany's salaries database bites the dust
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Arbeitnehmerdatenbank ELENA beißt ins Gras | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Deutsche_Arbeitnehmerdatenbank_ELENA_beisst_ins_Gras?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The German government announced, in a press release on 18 July 2011, that it was going to abandon its central database and registration procedure for salaries, ELENA (“Elektronischer Entgeltnachweis”/ “electronic salary record”), as soon as possible. With this decision, German […]
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Slovakia: Court asks website to filter public procurement open data
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowakei: Gericht fordert Filterung von Open Data zum öffentlichen Auftragswesen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Slowakei_Gericht_fordert_Filterung_von_Open_Data_zum_oeffentlichen_Auftragswesen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] Fair-Play Alliance (AFP), a Slovak non-governmental organization operating znasichdani.sk site, was required by a Bratislava District Court to take down from the website information related to certain public procurement contracts. The website was created in March […]
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Voluntary agreements on blocking are interfering with human rights
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Freiwillige Sperrabkommen beeinträchtigen die Menschenrechte | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Freiwillige_Sperrabkommen_beeintraechtigen_die_Menschenrechte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] Following the agreement of the EU institutions on a web blocking compromise text which fails to adequately address the lawless blocking which is undertaken in several EU countries, a careful reading of recent research on the legality of this approach is […]
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Belgium: Francophone press goes out and back in Google Search
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Google sperrt und entsperrt französischsprachige Zeitungen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Google_sperrt_und_entsperrt_franzoesischsprachige_Zeitungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] As a result of Google’s conflict with Copiepresse, the search engine announced on 15 July 2011 that it would not index titles from the Belgium francophone press. Google stated that in doing so, it only complied with the decision […]
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Britain: Government reneges on DNA privacy promise
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Regierung bricht ihr Versprechen DNA-Daten zu löschen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Britische_Regierung_bricht_ihr_Versprechen_DNA-Daten_zu_loeschen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] In Britain, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government has announced that it will not delete the DNA records of suspects who were arrested but subsequently acquitted or never charged. It had promised to delete them following the Marper judgement, […]
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ENDitorial: Phone hacking and self regulation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Abhörskandale und Selbstregulierung | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_ENDitorial_Abhoerskandale_und_Selbstregulierung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The self-regulatory authority for the British press, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), has itself become one of the victims of the “phone hacking” scandal, as self-regulation failed to not alone prevent but even identify problems now believed to be endemic among UK […]
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Criteria for EDRi-membership
!!! Criteria for admission of EDRi members Background: European Digital Rights – EDRi –is a membership organisation. More and more organisations are taking an interest in digital rights and apply to become members of EDRi. This document sets out the basis on which new applicants will be considered. More information on the application procedure can […]
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Dutch Senate "disappointed" with Data Retention Directive evaluation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländischer Senat “enttäuscht” über Evaluierung der VDS-Richtlinie | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Niederl%C3%A4ndischer_Senat_enttaeuscht_ueber_Evaluierung_der_VDS_Richtlinie?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] The same week the Dutch Senate approved a long-anticipated shortening of mandatory retention periods for internet data to six months, it published its correspondence with the Dutch Minister of Security and Justice on the Data Retention Directive evaluation by […]
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Perspectives of Internet blocking in UK following US model
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schöne Aussichten für britische Netzsperren nach amerikanischem Vorbild | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Schoene_Aussichten_fuer_britische_Netzperren_nach_amerikanischem_Vorbild?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] During his speech at the Intellect Consumer Electronics conference on 5 July 2011, UK culture minister Ed Vaizey announced that a movement in the States for a voluntary filtering by ISPs would probably bring up changes in UK […]
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EP Hearing "Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age"
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hearing im EU-Parlament: “Urheberrecht und Geistiges Eigentum im Digitalen Zeitalter” | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_EP_Urheberrecht_und_Geistiges_Eigentum_im_digitalen_Zeitalter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] The Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament held a hearing on Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age” in the European Parliament (EP) on 29 and 30 June 2011. The event was organised […]
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