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November 18, 2009 · Blogs

EDRi-gram – Number 7.22, 18 November 2009

November 18, 2009

UK Home Office steps back in the project to intercept communications

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britisches Innenministerium tritt vom Projekt zur Abhörung von Anschlüssen zurück | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1585] The Home Office’s plan (known as the Interception Modernisation Programme) to put under surveillance everyone’s email, mobile phone, text and Internet communications has been put on hold, following the outcomes of a consultation launched in April […]

November 18, 2009

Spain will not apply a three strikes law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanien wird kein Drei-Treffer-Gesetz anwenden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1586] As a ray of sunshine in a European environment favouring the disconnection of Internet users downloading allegdly copyrighted material, Spain (that will hold the EU Presidency from 1 January 2010) and Germany have decided not to join France and UK in […]

November 18, 2009

Commission Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Workshop der Kommission über datenschutzfreundliche Technologien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1587] The European Commission held a workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) on 12 November 2009. The event was supposed to be on the interim report from London Economics on the economic impact of PETs but ended up by being considerably […]

November 18, 2009

Bank Data Transfer to US about to be stopped

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bankdatentransfer an die USA kurz vor dem Abbruch | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1588] The Swedish EU presidency and the United States government have finalized a draft agreement on bank data transfer for anti-terrorism purposes in mid-November. While the negotiations over the so-called “SWIFT agreement” were held exclusively behind closed doors, the […]

November 18, 2009

Freedom of expression vs right to be forgotten?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung vs. das Recht vergessen zu werden? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1589] A cease and desist letter sent by a Germany law firm to the English Wikipedia asked for a name to be removed from several articles. The law firm is representing a convicted murderer, released on […]

November 18, 2009

EDPS Seminar: Responding to data breaches

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Seminar des Europäischen Datenschutzbeauftragten: Reaktion auf Datenverletzungen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1590] On 23 October 2009 the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) organised a seminar on security breaches. The three sessions focussed on the prevention, the management and the reporting of data […]

November 18, 2009

IPR Enforcement Report – Second Exchange of Views on the EP

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Durchsetzungsbericht der IPR – zweiter Meinungsaustausch im EP | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1591] A discussion on the IPR Enforcement report took place in the European Parliament (EP) on 9-10 November 2009. At the beginning of the discussion, the Parliamentarian in charge of the dossier, Marielle Gallo (EPP, France) gave details of […]

November 18, 2009

Azeri bloggers abusively sentenced by the Baku court

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Aserbaidschanische Blogger vom Gericht in Baku missbräuchlich verurteilt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1592] On 11 November 2009, two Azerbaijani bloggers were found guilty on hooliganism and violence charges by a court in Baku and sentenced to two years and two years and a half prison respectively. Bloggers and political activists Adnan […]

November 18, 2009

Set backs for Danish and Norwagian anti-piracy groups

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rückschlag für dänische und norwegische Anti-Piraterie-Gruppen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1593] The Danish Antipiratgruppen representing the movie and music industries has recently announced it gives up attempts to sue alleged copyright infringers following several defeats in court. “It requires very strong and concrete evidence to have these people convicted. We simply […]

November 18, 2009

Google's Street View faces trial in Switzerland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Googles Street View steht vor einer Klage in der Schweiz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1594] Switzerland continues its actions against Goggle’s Street View service. The Swiss Data Protection Authority has recently expressed its firm intention to bring Google to court on the matter. In August 2009, the Swiss Privacy Authority asked […]

November 18, 2009

ENDitorial: Mobilizing to Stop ACTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Mobilisierung um ACTA zu stoppen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1595] The negotiating partners of ACTA have announced that the next round of negotiations on ACTA will take place in Mexico in January and have promised to conclude the agreement in 2010. As the last edition of the EDRi-gram exposed, the […]