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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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State of play for ID cards in Europe
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Personalausweise in Europa | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2167] A new analysis was made public by Statewatch based on the answers to a questionnaire regarding the “state of play concerning electronic identity cards” in the EU Member States and countries that are members of the so-called “Mixed Committee” that is part of […]
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YouTube guilty of its users' copyright infringement says a German court
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutschland: YouTube wegen Verletzung von Urheberrechten verurteilt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2168] On 3 September 2010, the German Hamburg state court ruled that Google’s subsidiary YouTube had to pay damages for not having prevented and blocked the upload by its users of several videos of Sarah Brightman’s performances, thus violating its […]
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UK: Harassing innocent users for copyright infringement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [UK: Schuldlose User der Verletzung von Urheberrechten bezichtigt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2169] ACS:Law having sent tens of thousands of cash demands to make supposed copyright infringement lawsuits go away, has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Group for “bullying and excessive conduct”. The referral was the result of a coordinated […]
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ENDitorial: ACTA endgame – The devil is in the detail
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ ENDitorial: Endspiel um ACTA – Der Teufel steckt im Detail | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2170] The last week has seen a flurry of activity surrounding ACTA, with the leak of the latest negotiating text, as well as the adoption of a Written Declaration by the European Parliament. Some parts of […]
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EDRi-gram – Number 8.16, 25 August 2010
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Google Street View faces citizens' reservation in EU
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Bürger gegen Google Street View | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2125] While Google intends to go on mapping localities in Europe through its Street View system, several EU countries continue to show reluctance to this service due to privacy issues. In May 2010, Google was faced with big concerns in Germany after […]
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Some European ISPs ordered by courts to block access to gambling
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische ISPs sollen Zugang zu Glücksspiel-Seiten sperren | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2126] As a result of a case introduced by Arjel (the new French online gambling regulating authority) against Gibraltar-based site stanjames.com which had not responded to the authority’s formal request to stop its services to French users, on 6 August […]
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Romanian Government wants to issue Electronic ID cards
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänische Regierung plant elektronische ID-Karten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2127] The Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration (MAI) submitted for public consultation, in the middle of August 2010, a new draft Ordinance for issuing mandatory electronic ID cards for Romanians starting with 1 January 2011. Even though the decision […]
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French authority wants users to install spyware on their computers
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische Behörden wollen Nutzer zur Installation von Spyware verpflichten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2128] Hadopi (the French Authority for the implementation of the 3 strikes law) did not make public the document regarding the draft specifications of the security measures for the Internet (part of the three strikes system), although the […]
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EU interim technical supervisor for EU-US Swift Agreement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einstweilige technische Aufsicht für EU-US SWIFT Abkommen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2129] As on 1 August 2010 the so-called Swift agreement allowing EU citizens’ bank data to be transferred to US is to come into force, the European Commission will appoint an interim “technical” supervisor to oversee the searches of US […]
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Azeri bloggers appeal rejected by the Supreme Court
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einspruch von Azeri Bloggern vom Höchstgericht abgewiesen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2130] The Azerbaijani Supreme Court took a disturbing decision on 19 August 2010 rejecting the appeal by bloggers and activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade thus upholding the previous decisions taken by the lower courts in 2009 that convicted the […]
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ENDitorial: Leaked draft of the new Czech Copyright Act
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Entwurf zum neuen CR-Urheberrechtsgesetz durchgesickert | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2131] A leaked draft of the new Czech Copyright Act was obtained by Pirate News at the beginning of August 2010, after the Ministry of Culture has initially declined the request of Czech Pirate Party to have access to the document […]
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