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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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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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Dutch ISPs admit to using deep packet inspection
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische ISPs geben Nutzung von Deep Packet Inspection zu | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Niederlaendische_ISPs_geben_Nutzung_von_Deep_Packet_Inspection_zu] During an investors day on 10 May 2011 in London, Dutch Internet service provider KPN admitted to using deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, to determine the use of certain applications by its mobile internet customers. Vodafone soon […]
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CoE refuses to start investigation on biometrics
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europarat lehnt Biometrie-Untersuchung ab | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Europarat_lehnt_Biometrie-Untersuchung_ab] In an answer to the 31 March 2011 petition calling the Council of Europe (CoE) to start an in-depth survey under Article 52 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Thorbjørn Jagland, the Secretary General of the CoE refused to start an […]
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Ireland adopts innovation agenda on intellectual property
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irland: Innovationen zu geistigem Eigentum | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Irland_Innovationen_zu_geistigem_Eigentum] Richard Bruton, the Irish Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, said that he was determined that the Irish government should make whatever changes were necessary to allow innovative digital companies to reach their full potential in Ireland. He said that some […]
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UK police has bought surveillance software to track online movements
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Polizei schafft Software zur Überwachung des Onlineverkehrs an | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_GB_Software_zur_Ueberwachung_des_Onlineverkehrs] Civil liberties groups have shown great concern about the UK Metropolitan police force’s possible use of Geotime surveillance software that can map nearly every move in the digital world of “suspect” individuals. The Geotime security programme, that […]
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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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