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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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Bulgarian Police ordered ISPs to block US-based torrent tracker
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16 March 2007 the Bulgarian special forces for combating organized crime ordered the major ISPs to filter the access to and from the web site arenabg.com, a torrent tracker hosted in the US, claiming that it was the source of copyright infringement activities. Only three big […]
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CoE to address the impact of technical measures on human rights
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With its seventh meeting held on 26-27 March 2007 in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (CoE MC-S-IS) is pursuing its mandate for another two-years period, as affirmed in its revised terms of reference. There are little changes […]
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EC suggests new compromise on an EU patent system
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new communication was published on 3 April 2007 by the European Commission (EC) on enhancing the patent system in Europe, suggesting new ways of creating a Community patent. The communication supports a compromise between the European Patent Litigation Agreement supported by the European Patent Office and […]
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France establishes the DRM-regulation authority
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The independent authority foreseen by the new French law on copyright (DADVSI) was created in the last days of the Villepin government. This Authority for Regulations of the DRMs (Autorité de régulation des mesures techniques – ARMT) should ensure the interoperability of the DRM systems and allow […]
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Free software needs to be considered in Italian public acquisitions
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the case filed by Associazione per il Software Libero (Assoli – Association for Free Software) to the Regional Administrative Tribunal of Lazio-Rome, the Italian Ministry of Work and Social Politics has withdrawn the call for tenders for Microsoft Licences. The Department of Technological Innovation of the […]
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Private copy explained by Court of Appeal in Paris
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new decision of the Paris Court of Appeal in the case Mulholland Drive considers that there is no right to the private copy that can forbid the presence of the DRMs, but the private copy can be a good argument for defence in cases of counterfeiting. […]
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Nominations for Big Brother Award Italy 2007 are now open
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The official start of the call for nominations for the Italian Big Brother Award (BBA) 2007 began on 2 April 2007 and will last until 30 April. In a scenario where privacy is all the time attacked by new technologies and doubtful initiatives to protect our “security”, […]
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ENDitorial – About EFF Europe
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As some of our readers already know, the biggest digital civil rights NGO from the United States has opened this year a new office in Brussels to work with EU policy issues. EFF’s new European Affairs Coordinator, Erik Josefsson, was previously the president of the Swedish chapter […]
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Civil liberties threatened by the new centralized EU fingerprint database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A proposal for the creation of a centralized database of fingerprints from all 27 EU countries was included in a new European Commission document that sets out the goals for 2008. The fingerprints database is to be operational by the end of 2008 and it will include […]
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New draft of the Framework Decision on data protection
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Commission received these days also a totally new draft of the Framework Decision on data protection in police and judicial cooperation. The proposal was sent by Germany as the EU Council President and reffers to data protection in the security sector. The draft, made public by […]
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Belarus blocks again Internet websites
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 March 2006, several Belarusian web-sites: ucpb.org, svaboda.org, charter97.org, belhelcom.org, belaruspartisan.org, gazetaby.com and livejournal.com providing independent news and information were unavailable from 9.00 till 16.00 within the country borders. Belarusian authorities have the technical and legal possibility to restrict access because of Beltelecom monopoly. According to […]
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General ideas behind a computer game are not copyrighted
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that general ideas in a computer game can be copied, in the appeal Nova Productions, producer of Pocket Money computer game, made against two rival companies, Mazooma Games and Bell Fruit Games. Nova Productions had lost its case in first […]
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