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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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Successful appeal against backdoor in German anonymiser
Yesterday, an appeal-court in Germany suspended an earlier order to build a backdoor into Germany’s most famous anonymising service. The backdoor was removed immediately. According to the original court-order, the IP-addresses of all visitors to a certain website had to be logged and handed-over to the federal criminal police office. This vital information was not […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 6.15, 30 July 2008
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EDRi receives a 15Keuros donation from XS4ALL and its customers
In the beginning of May 2008, a critical network error caused an Internet blackout for a great number of people in the Netherlands. The problem, by some said to be the biggest in internet history in Holland, caused over a hundred thousand DSL lines to be disconnected for up to four days, among them many […]
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Extension of the copyright term for performers and record producers
On 16 July 2008, disregarding the well substantiated findings and opinions of the Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, the Cambridge Study for the UK Government and the Bournemouth University statement signed by 50 leading academics in June 2008, the European Commission (EC) adopted an initiative proposing the extension of the copyright term for the recorded […]
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France: more than 50 000 signatures against EDVIGE
The mobilization against EDVIGE, the newly created database to be used by French intelligence services and the administrative police, has been growing. Within only two weeks, the petition was signed by more than 50 000 individuals and 500 organizations. French Parliamentarians are also standing up against EDVIGE: not only more than 40 of them have […]
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University researcher may publish their findings on NXP Mifare chip
On 18 July 2008, the Dutch Court in Nijmegen dismissed the initial claim in its preliminary ruling in the case of Chip maker NXP against the publication by the University of Nijmegen of the security problems regarding Mifare Classic Chip, dismissing the initial claim. NXP had asked the judge to order the University of Nijmegen […]
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France pushes for ISPs' involvement in fighting illegal file sharing
Christine Albanel, the French Minister of Culture and Communication, has gathered her European homologues for an informal meeting in Versailles on 21 and 22 July 2008 in an attempt to push the French Hadopi law model to be embraced by Europe. Some of the main issues approached during the meeting were piracy, telecommunications reform, the […]
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EC wants to provide freedom for the authors from collecting societies
Against the high pressure from rights managers, the European Commission decided to ban certain copyright handling practices, mainly the obligation of an author not to move from a collective society to another. On 16 July 2007, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes asked 24 European collecting societies managing copyright on behalf of music authors to eliminate the […]
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Hungarian Competition Office challenges the Microsoft deal
The public procurement procedure of 25 billion HUF (approx. 100 million euro) for the supply of “Microsoft or other equivalent solutions” was published in January 2008 in the Tenders Electronic Daily, Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU. After the successful closing of the procedure, three companies distributing open source software challenged the result. […]
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FRA has a long history of spying on Swedes
The Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment FRA that has made the headlines last month with its law on spying on all communication, has recently announced that it has reported a blogger to the Chancellor of Justice for distributing what they consider classified material proving the Agency was spying on Swedes starting with 1996. Henrik Alexandersson […]
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Macedonia: Public outcry over new legislation for preventive surveillance
Several leading human rights NGOs from Macedonia issued a reaction to the Parliament and the Government of Republic of Macedonia on 24 June 2008, regarding the recent changes in the Law on Criminal Procedure and the Law on Interception of Communications, allowing special investigative measures (such as surveillance). The Foundation Open Society Institute – Macedonia, […]
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Serbian Telecom Agency publishes Internet traffic interception rules
Serbia’s Republic Agency for Telecommunications (RATEL) published on 21 July 2008 a document of Instructions for Technical Requirements for Subsystems, Devices, Hardware and Installation of Internet Networks. The document explains the technical requirements for authorized monitoring of some telecom services and provides a list of obligations for the telecom operators. According with the present text, […]
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