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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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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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EDRI-gram – Number 5.6, 28 March 2007
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IPRED2 adopted by the EP Legal Affairs committee
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee has adopted on 20 March 2007 the draft IPRED directive following the opinions presented by MEP Nicola Zingaretti, with some important amendments though. The good news is that the very controversial definition of “commercial scale infringement”, that previously included the IPRs […]
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Stakeholder group to advise on EU RFID strategy
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission presented its new proposal for the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags strategy for Europe after one year of consultations. The strategy will be drafted in cooperation with a Stakeholder Group to be created and Article 29 Working Party. An EU study had been initiated […]
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French draft decree regarding the right to reply on the Internet
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Ministry of Culture has forwarded to the European Commission a draft decree for the application of the right to reply legislation introduced by art. 6 IV of the law on Digital Economy of 21 June 2004 (‘Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique’ or LCEN) […]
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Google limits the search data retention period
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After consultations with privacy groups in Europe and the US, Google has decided to reduce to 18 – 24 months, the retention time for data related to users and their searches. Google is presently storing search information together with IP (Internet Protocol) addresses which can be further […]
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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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