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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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G8 and e-G8 Summit on Internet freedom
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [G8- und eG8-Gipfel zur Internetfreiheit | http://bit.ly/lzyYbk] The results of the 37th edition of the G8 Forum that took place in Deauville, France on 26-27 May 2011 and of the e-G8 meeting on Internet issues organised by the French Presidency immediately before, are sending a mixed message, on […]
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EDPS: Data Retention Directive fails to meet data protection requirements
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDSB: Richtlinie zur Vorratdatenspeicherung wird Datenschutzanforderungen nicht gerecht | http://bit.ly/juy3xn] Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted, on 31 May 2011, an opinion on the European Commission’s Evaluation Report on the Data Retention Directive submitted on 18 April 2011 to the Council and the European Parliament. […]
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Finland: Blocking of domestic websites ruled illegal
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnland: Sperre heimischer Webseiten rechtswidrig | http://bit.ly/iDS9mr] The Helsinki Administrative Court has ruled that domestic websites may not be placed on the secret blocking blacklist maintained by the police. This is the latest turn in a long legal fight by Finnish activist Matti Nikki, whose website lapsiporno.info (translates […]
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Internet FoE: How should Europe battle online censorship?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Redefreiheit: Wie die EU Onlinezensur bekämpfen soll | http://bit.ly/m59pVW] On 23 May 2011, there was an event in the International Press Centre in Brussels, hosted by ECIPE. Participants in the event were Erika Mann (Executive Vice President, CCIA; Board Member, ICANN), William Echikson (Head of Free Expression, EMEA, […]
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MEPs approve body scanners on airports on a voluntarily basis
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Abgeordnete befürworten Nacktscanner-Einsatz auf freiwilliger Basis | http://bit.ly/ja0anz] As the European Commission plans new rules to add body scanners to the list of EU-authorised methods for passenger screening, the European Parliament, which has the right to veto, made its position known on 24 May 2011, by approving a […]
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OSCE findings on Estonian e-voting
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [OSZE: Untersuchungsergebnisse zum estnischen E-Voting | http://bit.ly/jJOHnA] In its report of 16 May 2011, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) found Estonia’s March 6 parliamentary elections, including the Internet voting, as trustworthy, although several elections […]
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Internet governance dialogue in Belgrade 2011
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Internet Governance Dialog 2011 in Belgrad | http://bit.ly/mpzbht] The 4th European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) took place in Belgrade on 30-31 May 2011 covering a lot of debates on a large area of issues on concepts of Internet Governance, from freedom of expression to privacy and cybersecurity. […]
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Press release on EU IPR Strategy
European IP policy is crippling the European digital economy Brussels — European policy makers are strangling the digital economy, hurting consumers and putting Europeans’ fundamental rights at risk, according to a report into the failures of IP policy making in Europe. The report, by European Digital Rights, sets out how the EU has been making […]
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Commission plans to present flawed, illegal PNR proposal as "fait accompli"
Last week, DG HOME of the European Commission internally distributed a copy of the upcoming Passenger Name Record(PNR) agreement with the United States. The purpose of the text is to agree terms for sending air traveller data to the USA for the purpose of profiling citizens as a method of fighting crime. DG HOME presented […]
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Google found guilty in Belgium for newspapers' copyright infringement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Google verliert Klage wegen Urheberrechtsverletzung | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Belgien_Google_verliert_Klage_wegen_Urheberrechtsverletzung] Google lost its appeal in front of the Belgian appeals court which upheld an earlier ruling, having found the company guilty of infringing the copyright of newspapers, in the case introduced in 2006 by Copiepresse. In 2006, Copiepress, an agency […]
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Privatised enforcement series E: Online trading platforms sell out
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Serie: Privatisierung der Online-Strafverfolgung – Teil E | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Serie_Privatisierung_der_Online-Strafverfolgung%E2%80%93Teil_E] In a bizarrely designed document, looking like a mix between a wedding invitation and an accident in a blue ink factory, leading online retailers Amazon, eBay and Priceminister have sold out the interests of their consumers in a “memorandum […]
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CFP 2011 Conference to address the Future of Technology and Human Rights
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [CFP 2011 Konferenz beschäftigt sich mit Zukunftstechnologien und Menschenrechten | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_CFP_2011_Konferenz_zu_Zukunftstechnologien_und_Menschenrechten] The 21st Annual Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP 2011) will be held on 14 – 16 June 2011 in Washington DC, USA, at the Georgetown University Law Center. CFP conferences traditionally look at the technology and […]
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