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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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PNR used to investigate innocent travellers and turn them into suspects
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Unschuldige Reisende werden mittels PNR überprüft und zu Verdächtigen gemacht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1970] It has recently been revealed that UK Police secretly investigated the PNR (Passenger Name Records) data of 47 000 innocent people having travelled in and out of UK in 2009. Checks included scrutiny of the police […]
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EC negotiation mandate for EU-US personal data protection agreement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EK-Verhandlungsmandat für Datenschutzabkommen zwischen der EU und den USA | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1971] On 26 May 2010, the European Commission (EC) announced having drafted a mandate for the negotiation of a data protection agreement with the US in view of ensuring a high level of protection of personal information, such […]
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How many websites does Turkey block?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Wie viele Webseiten sperrt die Türkei? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1972] That information hasn’t been updated since May 2009. This is why Prof Yaman Akdeniz, who teaches Internet law at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, has initiated a trial, based on the Turkish law on access to public information. In May 2009, the […]
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Austria puts more pressure on Google Street View
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreich erhöht Druck auf Google Street View | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1973] Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSK) placed a temporary ban on Google’s Street View cars, The DSK intends to sanction the collection of private data from unencrypted wifi networks and therefore wants to see changes to the EU data protection […]
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The end of bloggers' anonymity in France?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Das Ende der Anonymität von Bloggern in Frankreich? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1974] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Крај за анонимноста на блогерите во Франција? | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/edri/kraj-za-anonimnosta-na-blogerite-vo-francija.html] The French senator Jean-Louis Masson submitted on 3 May 2010 a draft law that would end anonymity of bloggers who, according to […]
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ENDitorial: EP Legal Affairs adopts incoherent report on IPR enforcement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Rechtsausschuss des EP verabschiedet inkohärenten Urheberrechtsbericht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1975] This week, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament adopted a far-reaching, contradictory and, at times, fundamentalist non-legislative report on enforcement of intellectual property rights. The Committee report takes some quite extreme, apocalyptic and sometimes almost comically absurd […]
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German supreme court fines owner of open WiFi network
Article corrected on 22.05.2010 This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Bundesgerichtshof: Geldstrafe für Besitzer von ungesicherten WLAN-Netzen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1933] The Federal Supreme Court in Germany (Bundesgerichtshof (BGH)) has ruled in a case where an illegal download took place via an low-protected wireless Internet Access point, that the owner of the which should have […]
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ECJ Advocate General: Limitations to the levy on private copies
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH: Generalanwältin will Beschränkungen bei Abgaben auf Privatkopien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1934] Verica Trstenjak, Advocate General at the EU Court of Justice, believes the levy on private copies imposed on digital equipment, devices and media should be limited to cases “where it may be presumed that they are to be […]
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Facebook under pressure for not observing its privacy principles
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Facebook unter Druck: Datenschutzrichtlinien werden nicht eingehalten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1935] Macedonian: [Фејсбук под притисок поради непочитување на сопствените принципи за приватност | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/edri/fejsbuk-pod-pritisok-poradi-nepochituvanje-na-sopstvenite-principi-za-privatnost-2.html] The recent changes of Facebook’s privacy settings have attracted a lot of negative comments from regular users, but also from Data Protection authorities and NGOs. In […]
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Macedonia: New Law on Electronic Communications Proposed
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mazedonien: Neues Gesetz für elektronische Kommunikation verabschiedet | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1936] The amendments to the Law on electronic communications would allow the Ministry of Interior to play the “Big Brother” role, concluded the opposition parties during the debate on this bill that took place in the Assembly on 11 May […]
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UK: Dismantling the database state
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB: Abbau des Datenbankstaates | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1937] The new UK government’s coalition agreement includes a list of measures in order “to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion.” This includes the following: – The scrapping of ID card scheme, the […]
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Belgium: Win your privacy!
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Erlangen Sie ihre Privatsphäre zurück! | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1938] Retaining telecommunications data, the new law on the Special Intelligence Methods, the use of passenger data from airlines by judicial authorities and the police, and the ubiquity of cameras are but a few examples of measures that violate our right […]
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