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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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Lists of allegedly illegal websites always leak
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) While some European countries block the illegal content (mostly child pornography websites), other are considering implementing a similar measure through a hidden list. However the past month has shown, one more time if necessary, that usually the list of any blocked content will leak and thus the […]
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France: ARMT was useless
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the end of December 2008 it was publicly presented the first yearly report of the French Authority for Regulations of the DRMs (Autorité de régulation des mesures techniques – ARMT) that should have ensured the interoperability of the DRM systems and allow the private copies. This […]
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UK Culture Secretary wants film-style ratings to individual websites
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has presented, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph at the end of the last year, some new plans in adopting to the web “new standards of decency”. The Cabinet minister is planing to give film-style ratings to individual websites and […]
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Open Access to High Energy Physics Literature
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) An interesting alternative model for open access publishing for the High Energy Physics journals has emerged in the past years in a project led by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that attempts to make the current research openly accessible in this field. CERN was the leader […]
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No e-voting in Azerbaijan and Macedonia
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the major problems with the e-voting system tested in Western Europe, some Eastern European countries has expressed their reservation in implementing such as system. The Central Election Commission from Azerbaijan considered that e-voting is not required in the 2009 referendum or in the 2009 local elections […]
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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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ENDitorial: Everyone can eavesdrop in Macedonia
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Eavesdropping devices that are being sold through adverts are mostly used by pupils for cheating at their school exams, and by men who doubt their wives’ fidelity. “Hey, let’s meet, we should not discuss this over the phone.” This sentence has long been used among friends, colleagues […]
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Snooping law, "Lex Nokia", proceeding slowly but surely in Finland
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Earlier this year, in April, the Government of Finland presented a bill to the Parliament for an amendment to the Act on Data Protection of Electronic Communications. Raison d’être for the bill officially is that it would allow employers to investigate the log data of employees’ e-mails, […]
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German Federal Archives provides Wikipedia with 100 000 images
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Federal Archives has donated almost 100 000 images to the Wikimedia Commons, as part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the Weimar Republic, the German colonial era, the Third Reich […]
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UK Government now in favour of the extension of the copyright term
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At UK Music’s Creators’ Conference on 1 December 2008, Culture Minister Andy Burnham announced the backing of the UK Government to extending the copyright term for sound recordings to 70 years. The decision goes against the recommendations of Andrew Gowers, whose 2006 review of copyright is in […]
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Spanish collective society fined for making clandestine wedding video
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) has been fined for having placed a private detective in a restaurant in Seville, in 2005, to film a wedding in order to prove that the restaurant was using music for which it had paid no royalties. The […]
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