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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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UK: ISPs are not the Internet cops
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK music trade body, has asked British ISPs to disconnect the users that share music considering that this is just an education measure to their customers not to steal music. However, the UK ISPs are complaining about the fact that they […]
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PNR Data infringes human rights
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Working Group on Data Retention expanded its activities beyond the data retention issues, by publishing two applications to the European Court of Justice by the European Parliament contesting the transfer of PNR data to the US. The documents explain why the collection of air passenger […]
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The European Commission continues to pressure for early fingerprinting
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In spite of the recommendation of the European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, that the minimum age for fingerprinting should be 14, a spokesperson from the European Commission (EC) expressed on 2 April 2008 the EC intention to push for fingerprinting children starting at the age of […]
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ENDitorial: CoE – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The 9th meeting of the Council of Europe (CoE) group of specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS) was held in Strasbourg from 31 March to 2 April 2008. At the same time, on 1-2 April, another division of the CoE was holding in a […]
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Italian DPA: It's illegal to spy on P2P users
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali) issued a press release on 13 March 2008, explaining that the private companies can’t systematically monitor the activities of peer-to-peer (P2P) users that share files on the Internet, for the purpose of identifying and suing […]
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UK: Phorm targeted advertising practices – under pressure
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A large controversy has been lately spurred in the UK by the new technology Phorm, which can track users’ online surfing habits in order to better target ads. The Phorm system is apparently meant to assign a unique identifying number to a user’s browser, which, according to […]
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Czechs became Trojan horses for new US visa waiver programme
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Czech Republic Interior Minister Ivan Langer and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff signed on 26 February 2008 in Washington D.C. the Memorandum of Understanding which is the first step in introducing new electronic visa programme for all EU countries. In this Memorandum Czech authorities agreed to […]
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Information Commissioner warns against fingerprinting at new UK terminal
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Mr. Richard Thomas, UK Information Commissioner warned Heathrow airport operator BAA that the plans to fingerprint all passengers at the new Terminal 5 may breach the UK Data Protection Act. The 5.5 billion euro worth Terminal 5 was opened by the Queen on 16 March and is […]
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The Swedish Government decided to take measures against filesharers
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Although initially the Swedish Government promised not to hunt down young people for filesharing, on 14 March 2008, it made a proposal that will allow courts to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to give up IP addresses used for illegal filesharing to the owners of the fileshared […]
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UK beat police will have access to national mugshot database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 18 March 2008, Peter Neyroud, the chief executive of the UK National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA), told the Commons Home Affairs Committee, during the final evidence session of a year-long inquiry on the surveillance society, that the police was developing a national database of mugshots to […]
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Sony BMG accused of using pirated software
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Sony BMG has been accused by PointDev company of having used Ideal Migration, the administration software for Windows servers and client accounts, without having a licence. On 22 January 2008, a bailiff mandated by PointDev found an illegal installation of the software on four computers belonging to […]
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European Commission: pro active in using open source software
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission announced it would increase its own use of open source software for ICT projects: “For all new development, where deployment and usage is foreseen by parties outside of the Commission Infrastructure, Open Source Software will be the preferred development and deployment platform.” Valerie Rampie, […]
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