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EDRi-gram – Number 6.21, 5 November 2008
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New members EDRi
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the EDRi General Assembly of 25 October 2008 in Wien, Austria, EDRi welcomed 3 new members. Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) is a Norwegian civil liberties and digital rights organization working to protect and promote freedom of expression, privacy, the use of open standards and media file […]
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One more step for France in adopting the graduated response
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Despite all opposition and debates, on 30 October 2008, a crushing majority of the French Senate voted in favour of the anti-piracy law, the so called Hadopi law, introducing the graduate response against illegal content downloading. The law enabling the introduction of three-strikes measure against file-sharers and […]
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The European Parliament says no to airport body scanners
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) MEPs will not support the European Commission plans to include body scanning procedures within the airport security systems. The new system planned by the European Union to be introduced in airports allows security personnel to see an outline of passengers’ bodies beneath their clothes, in order to […]
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US visa waiver program questioned by the Hungarian President
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 20 October 2008, Hungarian President László Sólyom sent back to the Parliament for reconsideration the adopted law on sharing criminal data that was to be the final agreement between the United States and Hungary on the US visa-waiver program. Concerned with data protection issues, the President […]
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Finnish e-voting fiasco: votes lost
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A fully electronic voting system was piloted in the Finnish municipal elections on 26 October 2008. EDRi-member Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFi) had criticised the pilot program for years, recently releasing a report on its deficiencies. Today, the Ministry of Justice revealed that due to a usability issue, […]
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First PrivacyOS Conference: different privacy approaches in synergy
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The first Open Space conference of the PrivacyOS project was held in Strasbourg on 13-15 October 2008, in the European Parliament premises. PrivacyOS is a project funded under the European Commission’s ICT Policy Support Programme, started on 1 June 2008 for a total duration of 24 months. […]
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Big Brother Awards Germany 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The ninth edition of the Big Brother Awards Germany ceremony took place on 24 October 2008 in Bielefeld, Germany. The “Oscars for data leeches” event was organized by EDRi-member FoeBuD that gave seven negative awards. The Big Brother Award 2008 in the “Europe/EU” category went to The […]
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Big Brother Awards Finland 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) EFFi (Electronic Frontier Finland) gave out Big Brother Awards for the fifth time in a ceremony held at Helsinki Book Fair on 25 October 2008. This year, Big Brother Awards were given to companies and public servants who had done the most to promote an Orwellian surveillance […]
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Internet giants gather for freedom of speech – Global Network Initiative
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google confirmed on 28 October 2008 having signed up for the Global Network Initiative (GNI), an organisation aimed at preserving free speech on the Internet. GNI members are bound to challenge governments against requests for disclosure of private data if they consider the requests […]
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ENDitorial: The FRA Law – Sleepwalking into a Surveillance Society
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) New disclosures from researchers and electronic surveillance experts in an effort to explain the real impacts and implications of the FRA law. The Swedish Parliament passed controversial legislation last June, the so called FRA law. It seems that the MPs didn’t realise what they were voting for […]
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British court: people are bound to reveal computer encryption key
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two persons were denied by the court the right to silence in relation to the encryption key they were asked to reveal to the police. The men had brought as argument to the court that handing over the encrypted key for the data in their computers would […]
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