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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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European Parliament hearing on Internet privacy issues
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During a hearing of the European Parliament (EP)’s Civil Liberties Committee, on 21 January 2008, serious data protection concerns were raised by the practice of large Internet companies that monitor the online behaviour of their users in order to provide online advertisers with the necessary information to […]
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Personal sensitive data keep on being lost in UK
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Many documents with confidential data including benefit claims, passport photocopies and mortgage payments were found on 17 January 2008 lost on a roundabout near Exeter Airport in Devon, UK. Mr Karl-Heinz Korzenietz, the finder of the documents, told BBC News: “I thought first of all it was […]
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New spying tools patented by Microsoft
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) According to The Times, a patent application has been filed by Microsoft for a computer software that can monitor the employees’ performance and state, by means of wireless sensors linking workers to their computers. The system, considered by Microsoft a “unique monitoring system”, is capable of measuring […]
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YouTube blocked once more in Turkey
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) An order issued by a Turkish court on 17 January 2008 blocked once again the access to Google’s YouTube Web site on account of allegedly insulting clips referring to the country’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The ban lasted for 6 days and as no statements have […]
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Bulgarian Big Brother Awards
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 28 January 2008, the Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society Bulgaria presented the Big Brother negative awards. The Big Brother award was presented to the Ministry of Interior for publishing data from the passports and criminal conviction records of two BBC journalists who were […]
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***European Data Protection Day – 28.01.2008 – special section***
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) 28 January is the European Data Protection Day. For the second time, in 2008, this date marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108, the first legally binding international instrument related to data protection. This section of the EDRi-gram is dedicated to the European Data […]
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Key privacy concerns in Denmark 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) a. Data Retention – a reality 15 September 2007 – data retention became a reality in Denmark. The administrative order, which sets the scope and conditions for data retention, was approved on 28 September 2006 with an implementation deadline of one year. The order, which was drafted […]
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Key privacy concerns in Czech Republik 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Last year has seen an increased number attempts from government bodies to extend their powers and make it easier to access people’s private information. To name a few, there were legal proposals to increase the number of agencies authorized to access and process electronic communication data collected […]
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Key privacy concerns in Ireland 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) a. Data Retention Litigation The Digital Rights Ireland litigation against data retention, which was started in September 2006, continues before the High Court. This action challenges both the Directive and also Ireland’s domestic data retention laws. It alleges that those laws are procedurally flawed and are also […]
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Key privacy concerns in France 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) 6 January 2008 was the 30th anniversary of the French Data Protection Act. But no one really cared. The only French contribution to this 2nd European DP day has been the publication by the CNIL (French DP Authority) of a poll result that it commissioned in November […]
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Key privacy concerns in Romania 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy and data protection seems not to be a hot topic for the Romanian society. The media is generally ignoring the topic, unless something related to an important public figure is making the subject out of the ordinary. The Romanian Data Protection Authority has failed in becoming […]
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Key privacy concerns in Netherlands 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The nominees and winners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2007 showed it clearly: a proper level of data protection in The Netherlands cannot be taken for granted. A number of big projects and ongoing legislative efforts threaten the state of data protection in the Netherlands. The […]
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