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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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France obtained ISPs support in blocking illegal sites
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) French Interior Minister Michel Alliot-Marie announced on 10 June 2008 that the French state had come to an agreement with the French ISPs to block sites carrying pedophilic content or content related to terrorism and racial hatred. “We can no longer tolerate the sexual exploitation of children […]
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UK MPs report: A Surveillance Society?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A report of the Home Affairs Committee shows concerns that Britain might be in danger of becoming a Big Brother type of state and calls on the UK ministers to take the necessary measures to provide safeguards and minimize the amount of the citizen’s information collected and […]
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Italian blog closed by Police
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 6 June 2008, the blog of the Italian journalist Antonino Monteleone was closed, without notification, by the Polizia Postale of Calabria under accusations of defamation, but the journalist claims that this action came after having posted uncomfortable information on political figures. The whole story started in […]
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OOXML standard on hold by ISO
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva have postponed the publication of the revised specification of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, following complaints filed by their member organizations representing these four countries: Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela. The planned […]
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British ISPs warn Internet downloaders on the risk of being prosecuted
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As a continuation of the actions started in March 2008, and despite opinions that ISPs should not act as an Internet police, the major British record labels represented by British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Virgin Media, UK’s largest provider of home broadband, have joint forces in a […]
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Czech Parliament – close in implementing data retention directive
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Czech Parliament is close to approving the data retention implementation as an Act amending the Electronic Communications Act (127/2005 Coll.). Due to the early introduction of the data retention obligation in the text of the 2005 Act, the current amending draft law implementing the data retention directive […]
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Deutsche Telekom under investigation for spying on its employees
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The giant German telecommunication company is under investigation by national prosecutors for a presumed breach of privacy, after having spied on the phone calls of its managers, journalists and even board members. According to Der Spiegel newspaper, the former monopoly incumbent operator – still 31.7% owned by […]
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ICO worried about a UK Government-owned traffic data database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The new Communications Data Bill proposed by the Home Office has met the opposition of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which has shown concerns related to the proposals of building one Government-owned database with records of phone calls, email and Internet use in the UK. In ICO’s […]
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Dutch Parliament lowers data retention term to 12 months
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Dutch Parliament has lowered the data retention term in its implementation of the Data Retention directive to 12 months. The law has still to pass the Dutch Senate, which has been more critical of data retention in the last four years. A lot is still unclear […]
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BitTorrent tracker sites threatened by draft ACTA agreement
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new international trade agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which is now under discussion might strengthen criminal sanctions against BitTorrent tracker sites for exploiting copyright material online. The tracker sites state they do not profit from Internet users sharing music, movies and software, saying that the […]
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Finish CSS decision overturned
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Helsinki Court of Appeal overturned the initial decision taken by the Helsinki District Court ruling that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision of the Court of Appeal was taken a year after the first ruling concluded that “CSS protection can […]
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Creative Commons Bulgaria Licence upheld in court
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Veni Markovski from EDRi-member ISOC Bulgaria reports on his blog on the first case when the CreativeCommons Licence was upheld in court in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian blogger Elenko Elenkov filed a lawsuit against the newspaper “24 hours” for having used one of his photos, licenced under the […]
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