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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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Data protection in Italy: Loudly more of the same
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) I am sorry to say that I am skeptical about “days” dedicated to this or that cause or problem. They are often ignored, sometimes briefly celebrated, rarely leave any relevant trace over time. There are so many that we shall soon have one a week – and […]
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Romania: Is really privacy a topic in the public debate?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy is a sporadic keyword in the Romanian mass-media. And even less used in public speech. Becoming an ideal motivation only when talking about some local stars’ private life and their juicy intricacies, the real debate on the most important issues lacks completely. The Human Rights Committees […]
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UK: Phorm threat
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) One particular commercial threat to internet privacy should be looked at very closely by our fellow European Digital Rights campaigners. That threat is Phorm: an invasive and probably illegal web advertising technology that could soon be coming to you. Phorm works by looking at the web traffic […]
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Austria: Some EU data protection policy developments in 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In Austria the international data protection day on 28 January will pass by widely unrecognised. This year, as already in 2008, the Data Protection Commission (DSK; the Austrian Data Protection Authority) and the Data Protection Council (DSR; a political advisory board) will together organise a meeting for […]
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France: Who have they forgotten to control today?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, has published on 20 January 2009 a report on a massive control operation it conducted on the STIC (“Système de traitement des infractions constatées” or “Recorded offences treatment system”), a huge police database. The report reveals that the STIC is […]
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Privacy in Germany 2008: A new fundamental right, a privacy mass movement, and the usual surveillance suspects
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The year of 2008 can be marked as the year where privacy moved high on the public agenda in Germany. On 1st of January, the law on data retention went into effect, which made Germany drop from number one to seven in the country ranking published by […]
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Some EU data protection policy developments in 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Will the 2008 be remembered as the Data Retention implementation year or the first Freedom not Fear day? As always with the conclusions, we might answer better this question in 2009 or 2018. But let’s look at some facts from the last year now One of the […]
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Towards International Data Protection Standards
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In October 2008, the 30th International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners in Strassbourg adopted a resolution on the urgent need for protecting privacy in a borderless world, and for reaching a Joint Proposal for setting International Standards on Privacy and Personal Data Protection. Following this […]
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Macedonia: Privacy Developments in 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Even though the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia and the Law on Personal Data Protection (LPDP), the Criminal Code, Law on Organization and Operation of State Administrative Bodies and other laws recognize and protect the rights of privacy, data protection and secrecy of communications, the implementation […]
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Reject the Term Extension Directive
The European Parliament is being asked to nearly double the term of copyright afforded to sound recordings. Industry lobbyists suggest that extending copyright term will help increase the welfare of performers and session musicians. But the Term Extension Directive, which will be voted on by the Legal Affairs Committee in a few weeks’ time, will […]
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Big Brother Awards UK 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Big Brother Awards (BBA) are back in UK with more positive awards to celebrate the people that have been involved in protecting privacy in the past years. The event, held in December 2008 at the London School of Economics, was organized by the EDRi-member Privacy International and […]
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Montenegro blocks Facebook and Youtube for civil servants
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Montenegro’s office in charge with the government Internet infrastructure decided to ban access to several social networking or video sharing websites, such as YouTube or Facebook. The public servants were announced by a statement sent at the end of December 2008 by the office to all civil […]
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