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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 fails to properly implement the EU data protection directive
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) is concerned about the way the UK has implemented the provisions for protecting personal data, according to information revealed by out-law.com following freedom of information requests. An investigation has been initiated by the EC three years ago regarding the way the UK legislation […]
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German DP Commissioner against Google-Doubleclick deal
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Data Protection Commissioner of the German state of Shleswig-Holstein Thilo Weichert publicly opposed the Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick in a letter to EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Mr. Weichert declared that: “At present we have to assume that in the event of a takeover of DoubleClick […]
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UK: Decrypt data or go to prison!
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The controversial Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) in UK is in force starting with 1 October 2007. This new regulation gives the power to police forces to ask for the disclosure of encryption keys, or force suspects to decrypt encrypted data. RIPA […]
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European Parliament resolution on a European digital library
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament (EP) adopted on 27 September 2007 a resolution that endorses the 2005 European Commission’s Communication i2010: Digital Libraries supporting the digital libraries initiative that aims at making European information resources easier and more interesting to use in an online environment The Commission’s “2010 Digital […]
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ENDitorial: Montreal Privacy Week: Terra Incognita or Deja Vu?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) More than 600 persons from 50 countries gathered in Montreal to participate to the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, on 25-28 September 2007, making this year venue attended by a record number of interested parties. The theme of the conference, ‘Privacy Horizons: Terra […]
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Human Rights in the Information Society – rediscover the proportionality
On 13-14 September 2007 the French Commission for UNESCO, UNESCO and the Council of Europe organised the conference “Ethics and Human Rights in the Information Society” in Strasbourg, to which EDRi was invited to contribute. This conference was the third in a cycle of regional conferences on the ethical dimensions of the information society, which […]
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Winner Dutch Big Brother Awards 2007: 'You'
The Dutch Big Brother Award 2007 in the Individual category has been awarded to the Dutch citizen. He is the biggest threat to privacy according to the jury. Due to indifference – “I have nothing to hide” – and lack of interest in what happens to their personal data, citizens share responsibility for the disappearance […]
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Largest anti-surveillance street protest in Germany for 20 years
On Saturday, 22 September 2007, more than 15,000 took to the streets of Berlin under the slogan “Liberty instead of Fear – stop the Surveillance Mania!”. Several Civil Liberty organisations, affiliated in the “Working Group Data Retention” (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung), organised the march. 55 groups called for participation, among them the “Young Liberals” (Junge Liberale, Youth […]
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Turkey blocks again YouTube
A Turkish court from the eastern city of Sivas decided on 18 September 2007 to order the ISPs to block the access to YouTube, considering that one of the video hosted there insulted Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish army. Anatolia news agency reported […]
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European Commission investigates Apple's European prices
The representatives of the European Commission (EC) had a closed meeting last week with Apple and other four major record companies, regarding the different pricing schemes used in different countries in Europe. The meeting should have lasted for two days, but two record companies EMI Group and Warner Music Group decided they didn’t need to […]
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Pole faces prison for "Google bombing" targetted to the Polish President
A Polish computer programmer, Marek W, might go to prison for 3 years for having created a program that linked Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s website to the word “kutas” meaning penis in Polish vulgar language. Marek, charged for insulting the President, admitted he had created a so-called “Google bomb” in order to check out his […]
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Data Protection Framework Decision: EDPS concerned about dilution of Data Protection standards http://edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/EDPS/PressNews/Press/2007/EDPS-2007-10-EN_DPFD.pdf Nuffield Council on Bioethics : The forensic use of bioinformation: ethical issues. This Report considers whether current police powers in the UK to take and retain bioinformation are justified by the need to fight crime. Executive Summary http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/fileLibrary/pdf/The_forensic_use_of_bioinformation_-_Executive_Summary.pdf Full Report http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/fileLibrary/pdf/The_forensic_use_of_bioinformation_-_ethical_issues.pdf
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