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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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Google News investigated for alleged discrimination in Italy
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ermittlungen gegen Google News in Italien wegen angeblicher Diskriminierung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1512] The Italian Competition Authority opened an investigation on 27 August 2009 in relation to Google News after the Italian Editors Association (FIEG) claimed Google was discriminating those publishers choosing not to appear on the Italian version of […]
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Telecom Package – All sides poised for the final battles
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Telekompaket: alle Seiten bereiten sich auf die letzte Schlacht vor | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1513] Preparations are being made in the EU institutions for the expected third reading of the Telecom Package. The timescale for the remainder of the legislative process will be determined by the official communication of the Council […]
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Consultation on how to operate EU's digital library
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Beratungen darüber, wie die digitale Bibliothek der EU geführt werden soll | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1514] The European Commission launched a consultation on 28 August 2009 on EU’s digital library project Europeana, set up in November 2008, in order to find the best way to make the project work. Differently from […]
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ICO takes action against personal data losses in UK
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ICO geht gegen Verluste persönlicher Daten in Großbritannien vor | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1515] After UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Wigan schools in breach of the Data Protection Act following a theft of a laptop with personal information on about 43 000 children and young people, the Wigan council […]
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EDRi-gram – Number 7.16, 26 August 2009
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The Pirate Bay – public enemy number one
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [The Pirate Bay – Staatsfeind Nummer 1 | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1495] The Pirate Bay (TBP) seems to be the website in the limelight these days, after the music industry decided to attack it with every legal possibility and in any country they can, with actions in Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland […]
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Italian DNA database: The devil is in the details
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italienische DNA-Datenbank: der Teufel steckt im Detail | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1496] On 30 June 2009, the Italian Parliament finally passed Law No. 85 that ratifies the Prum Convention and forms the legal ground for the creation of an Italian National DNA Database (NDNAD). Although this law might have benefited from […]
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People convicted in UK for refusing to surrender cryptographic keys
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Verurteilungen in Großbritannien für die Weigerung, Entschlüsselungen herauszugeben | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1497] According to the Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner Sir Christopher Rose to the UK Prime Minister and Scottish Ministers, people were sentenced between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009 for not having given their passwords […]
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Google's Street View contested in France and Switzerland
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Googles Street View in Frankreich und der Schweiz angefochten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1498] After being criticised and contested in several countries in Europe, such as UK, Germany and Greece and even outside Europe like in Japan, it is the turn of France and Switzerland to complain against Google’s service Street […]
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UK: p2p three strikes clamp down despite civil liberties concerns
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB: das p2p drei Treffer-Schema greift trotz Bedenken über Bürgerrechte durch | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1499] A new proposal shows that the UK Government has given in to the pressure of right holders who have complained that the measures proposed by the ‘Digital Britain’ report were not powerful enough “to have […]
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Belgium: Minister of Justice wants 2 years of data retention
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Justizminister will zweijährige Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1500] Belgium is starting again to discuss the implementation of the data retention directive, suggesting a 2-year retention period for electronic communication traffic data, according with the Flemish newspaper De Tijd. The initial discussion in 2008 did not passed the criticism received […]
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Creative Commons licensed works available on Google Books
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Unter Creative Commons lizenzierte Werke auf Google Books erhältlich | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1501] Google Books announced on 13 August 2009 the launching of an initiative allowing writers, artists and publishers to specify their works as Creative Commons (CC) works, being able to choose between the six CC version 3 licenses, […]
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