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April 21, 2010

Asociación de Internautas goes to EC against court decision

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Asociación de Internautas wendet sich wegen Gerichtsurteil an Europäische Kommission | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1873] Asociación de Internautas (the Spanish Association of Internet Users – AI) has recently denounced to the European Commission (EC) the Spanish Supreme Court decision in the case introduced by SGAE (the General Society of Authors and […]

April 21, 2010

ENDitorial: The Italian decision on the Google's executives published

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Italienisches Urteil hinsichtlich Googles Führungskräfte veröffentlicht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1874] Finally, the Court of Milan made public the opinion that backed the indictment of a couple of Google’s executives charged of Italian Data Protection Act infringement for not removing a violent video from the company’s video sharing platform, video.google.com. […]

April 19, 2010

Translations of Delete, don’t block – published in The Guardian

The article Delete, don’t block published in The Guardian on 30 March 2010 by Joe McNamee, EDRi’s Advocacy Coordinator has been translated also in several languages – Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Spanish Original Article in English http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/220161-delete-don-t-block Czech http://www.presseurop.eu/cs/content/article/220451-neblokovat-mazat Dutch http://www.presseurop.eu/nl/content/article/220601-blokkeren-van-websites-heeft-geen-enkele-zin French http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/220501-bloquer-les-sites-pedophiles-une-tache-insensee German http://www.presseurop.eu/de/content/article/220691-loeschen-nicht-sperren Italian http://www.presseurop.eu/it/content/article/220641-bloccare-i-siti-pedofili-una-fatica-inutile Polish http://www.presseurop.eu/pl/content/article/220701-usuwac-nie-blokowac Romanian http://www.presseurop.eu/ro/content/article/220411-sterge-nu-bloca […]

April 7, 2010 · Blogs

EDRi-gram – Number 8.7, 7 April 2010

April 7, 2010

Personal data: a comic book for European young adults

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Personenbezogene Daten: Ein Comicheft für junge Europäer | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1830] Information and communication technologies (telephone, Internet, emails, blogs and social networks) make daily life and relationships with our relatives, friends or even strangers easier. Young people and young adults make a particularly intense use of them. However, unless we […]

April 7, 2010

European Commission proposes Net blocking and defends illegal activity

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission schlägt Netzsperren vor und verteidigt rechtswidrige Handlungen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1831] On 29 March 2010, the European Commission re-launched its initiative on child exploitation. This initiative was originally launched in March 2009 as a “Framework Decision”, but was withdrawn due to the entry into force of the Lisbon […]

April 7, 2010

UK Digital Economy Bill rushed through the House of Commons

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Digital Economy Bill: Im Eiltempo durch das Unterhaus | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1832] After several hours of debate on 6 April 2010 in an almost empty British House of Commons, the Digital Economy Bill was passed to the next stage. The final debate is today, 7 April 2010 and the […]

April 7, 2010

New Media, Search Engines and Network Neutrality on 2010 CoE Agenda

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue Medien, Suchmaschinen und Netzneutralität auf der Tagesordnung des Europarates | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1844] The Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of experts on new media (MC-NM) held its second meeting on 25-26 March 2010 in Strasbourg. This group is a follow-up to the previous CoE Group of specialists on Human […]

April 7, 2010

Confused discussions surrounding IPR enforcement in the EP

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Wirre Diskussionen im EP über die Durchsetzung geistiger Eigentumsrechte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1833] The probably final set of discussions around the much-debated “Gallo Report” on the enforcement of intellectual property rights was held recently in the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (EP). In the week prior to the […]

April 7, 2010 · Blogs

Defining the open standards in the EU Digital Agenda

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Definition der Open Standards in der Digital Agenda der EU | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1834] Several French NGOs such as APRIL (the Association for the promotion and defence of free software)and the consumer group UFC-Que Choisir have recently voiced their worries related to the wording on open standards in the Digital […]

April 7, 2010

New governmental usage of open licences in the Netherlands and UK

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue Nutzung offener Lizenzen durch die niederländische und britische Regierung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1835] Encouraging moves in promoting the open licence content in governmental projects have been recently made in the Netherlands and UK. The Netherlands government launched on 31 March 2010 Rijksoverheid.nl, a single website for communications for all […]

April 7, 2010

ENDitorial: Commissioner blames USA for imposition of EU censorship

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Kommissarin gibt der USA die Schuld an der wachsenden Zensur in der EU | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1836] In a blog post, Commissioner Malmström’s press spokesman Love Berggren placed the blame for the perceived need to impose EU-wide blocking squarely at the feet of the governments in the USA, Russia […]