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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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Privacy complaints related to Google's Street View
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy International has complained to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) against Google’s Street View cars, which grab real photographs of streets and people, that get loaded into Google Maps. Street View distinctive cars have been recently spotted on London. The system allows Google’s users to view 360 […]
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New threats for UK file-sharers
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the letters sent from Virgin Media to its customers on alleged file-sharing activities, British Telecom (BT), the UK’s largest broadband provider, has started a similar activity. The Register has received information from one of the BT subscribers that has received such a letter from the Customer […]
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Liberty groups win long court battle against UK wiretapping
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After nine years of legal battle by civil rights groups in London and Dublin, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on 1 July 2008 that UK Government had violated Human Rights by tapping their communications between 1990 and 1997. Liberty groups, along with British Irish Rights […]
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ENDitorial: Massive mobilization against EDVIGE, the new French database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Remember the movie ‘Das Leben der Anderen’ (The Lives of Others), where a Stasi agent was monitoring a playwriter’s life? This doesn’t translate anymore in French into ‘La vie des autres’, but rather into EDVIGE, the name of a newly created database to be used by French […]
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Control on Internet users pushed with the new telecom package
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) An appeal from three European NGOs – La Quadrature du Net, netzpolitik.org and EDRi-member Open Rights Group – reveal some disturbing MEPs amendments to the draft directives to reform the EU framework on electronic communications (telecom package). The review of the telecom package was merely focusing on […]
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France promotes the three-strike scheme in Europe
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With France taking over the presidency of the European Union on 1 July 2008, the French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel, wants to get a consensus in the fight against p2p downloading by translating the French model to the entire Europe. Christine Albane presented on 19 June […]
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The US-EU agreement on personal data exchange by law enforcement
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As stated by the New York Times on 26 June 2008, the United States and the European Union are close to conclude an agreement allowing the exchange of personal data of their citizens, including credit card information, travel history and Internet browsing information in order to be […]
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ePrivacy Directive debated in the EP's Civil Liberties Committee
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 June 2008, the European Parliament’s Standing Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs asked for measures to correct the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (called ePrivacy Directive). “We have introduced a few points directed towards better consumer […]
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ECJ first hearing on data retention case
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 1 June 2008, the first hearing by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Ireland’s action for the annulment of the directive on data retention took place in Luxembourg. Ireland, later on joined by Slovakia, filed an action with ECJ against the European Council and Parliament […]
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ICAAN supports custom domains and discusses whois privacy issues
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During its 32nd International Public Meeting in Paris of 22-26 June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the proposal to expand the world’s Domain Name System. Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s president and CEO, said in a statement: “The Board today accepted a recommendation […]
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German Protests in over 30 cities against surveillance
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 31 May 2008, privacy activists organized new rallies in more than 30 cities across Germany. Following the November 2007 protests under the motto “Freedom not Fear”(“Freiheit statt Angst”), thousands of citizens participated in this year street actions. Numerous demonstrations, rallies, information events, as well as workshops […]
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ENDitorial: Sweden is listening to all internet and phone conversations
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In Denmark we already have Data Retention in place and the rest of Europe will follow soon. That means that our own countries demand that Internet companies and phone companies log who we phone, email with, chat with, which websites we visit, etc. This is something that […]
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