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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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Spanish local police keeps illegal database for political reasons
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) It has been revealed that the Spanish local police of Sada (Galicia) was keeping an illegal database with information and pictures of people, gathered during night patrols. On 14 August 2008, a counsellor, a local police officer and a Guardia Civil sergeant discovered in an office of […]
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Italian justice wants to "seize" a foreign website
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an investigation started by the Bergamo Prosecutors, an Order of the Justice for preliminary investigation of the Court of Bergamo was issued on 1 August 2008, asking for the “seizure” of the PirateBay website, hosted outside Italy, for displaying a collection of links to allegedly illegal […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 6.16, 27 August 2008
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Cloning e-passports
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Jeroen van Beek, a computer researcher at the University of Amsterdam, has shown in some tests conducted for The Times that the new micro-chipped passports, introduced in UK to protect against terrorism and organised crime, can be easily cloned. The researcher has succeeded in cloning the chips […]
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Problems with online FoI in the Georgia-Russia conflict
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia region has extended to Internet, both countries having launched cyber-attacks and blocking each other’s broadcasting sites. Georgian authorities have blocked access to Russian news broadcasters and websites, the action being justified by Georgia’s Interior Ministry with the argument […]
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Copyright experts against the EU extension of the copyright term
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) New voices from the major copyright experts in the European universities and research centers question the current EU proposals of extension of the copyright term for the performing artists and sound recordings. As previously covered in the past EDRi-gram, the first letter was addressed to EU Commission […]
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Call for worldwide protests against surveillance
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Civil rights organizations call for protests against the constant increase of surveillance conducted by governments and enterprises. A rally under the motto “Freedom not Fear” will be held in Berlin on 11 October 2008. The organizers agree that it is high time to take to the streets […]
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UK government goes on with its plan for data retention
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK government intends to oblige ISPs and telephone companies to keep Internet personal data traffic for at least 12 months and local, health authorities and lots of other public bodies are to be given access to details of everyone’s personal Internet information. On 15 August 2008, the […]
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Seminar on the Telecoms Package and Network Filtering
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The telecoms package seminar on the 27 August 2008 in the European Parliament arranged by Swedish MEP Christofer Fjellner had a remarkably large audience. Over 100 persons came to listen to the five speakers from both industry and civil society. Over all, the speakers called for better […]
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Dispute between UK government and EU over the use of PNR
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK Government fights EU proposals to restrict the way it uses passenger name record (PNR) information to monitor immigration, claiming that the data it collects is crucial to control cross-border movements. With the EU planning to make all European states share PNR data, UK government argues there […]
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Secret reports on new five year plan for "European Home Affairs"
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new secret report, made available by Statewatch, drafted by the “Future Group” of Interior and Justice Ministers from six EU member states (Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Slovenia, and Czech Republic) suggests a series of proposals to boost EU integration in policing and intelligence-gathering, including the creation […]
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ENDitorial: Wiretapping – the Swedish way
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Swedish Parliament, Riksdagen, adopted 18 June 2008 a law which obliges all telecom and Internet providers to transfer all communication that passes the Swedish border to Försvarets radioanstalt (FRA), or the National Defence Radio Establishment as it is officially called in English. It is the Swedish […]
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