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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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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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ENDitorial: RFID PIA: Check against delivery
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: RFID PIA – Auf die Umsetzung kommt es an | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_ENDitorial_RFID_PIA_Auf_die_Umsetzung_kommt_es_an] In the context of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Council, the European Commission and the Hungarian Innovation Office jointly organised the IoT 2011 conference on the Internet of Things, earlier this week. One of the […]
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Virtual Schengen documents released by EU Council
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neues zur “Virtuellen Schengen Grenze” | http://www.unwatched.org/20110513_Neues_zur_Virtuellen_Schengen_Grenze] The Council of the European Union has released the controversial presentation on a “virtual Schengen border” – the proposal to create a “Chinese wall” around the Internet in Europe. The proposal was discussed by the Council in February. The documents were […]
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Data Retention has arrived in Austria
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung erreicht Österreich | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_erreicht_Oesterreich] While the Czech Constitutional Court has recently declared the national data retention legislation unconstitutional, the Legal Services of the German Bundestag has found it impossible to ensure the legality of the Data Retention Directive and the European Commission itself still struggles to prove […]
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Copyright complaint leads to public domain music library takedown
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Urheberrechtsbeschwerde: Musikbibliothek offline | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Urheberrechtsbeschwerde_Musikbibliothek_offline] International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has been recently taken offline following a complaint from the UK’s Music Publishers Association which convinced registrar GoDaddy to takedown their website. The action was brought over a […]
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The curious case of Internet filtering in Ireland
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der seltsame Fall der Internetfilterung in Irland | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Internetfilter_in_Irland] One of the most important developments for freedom of expression online has been the growth of internet filtering systems, which have rapidly been adopted by national governments as the “solution” to various forms of internet wrongdoing. Ireland is no […]
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French Digital Council with no representative from Internet users
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreichs Internet-Rat ohne Konsumentenvertreter | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Franzoesischer_Internetrat_ohne_Vertretung_der_Internetnutzer] On 27 April 2011, French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially installed the National Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique – CNN) which is to advise the French government on digital issues. Among the 18 personalities belonging to the newly established body, there is […]
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BitTorrent site blocked by Italian court
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italienisches Gericht sperrt BitTorrent-Seite | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Italienisches_Gericht_sperrt_BitTorrent-Seite] On 21 April 2011, an Italian court ordered all Italian ISPs to block the BitTorrent search website BTjunkie considered by the public prosecutor as one of the most prominent havens for pirated media. BTjunkie IP addresses and its domain name were to […]
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Privatised enforcement series D: Anatomy of a self-regulation proposal
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Serie: Privatisierung der Online-Strafverfolgung – Teil D | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Privatisierung_der_Online_Strafverfolgung_Teil_D] How does it happen that an industry or a sector of industry signs up “voluntarily” to arbitrarily punish their consumers and to restrict freedom of speech? One of the most interesting and telling examples is the ongoing “public/private dialogue […]
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