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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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ENDitorial – Are Transatlantic Data Protected?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) More questions than answers were produced by a full day of discussions, 26 March 2007, on Passenger Name Records (PNR), including a public seminar by the European Parliament LIBE committee on transfers of personal data to the U.S. (PNR, SWIFT, and “Safe Harbour”), as well as a […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 5.5, 14 March 2007
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YouTube blocked for 2 days in Turkey
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The video-sharing website Youtube, was blocked on 7 March 2007 by a court order in Turkey, after some videos insulting Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had been uploaded on its servers. The ban was lifted two days later, when the videos were removed from the website. […]
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French High Court cancels the creation of illegal migrants database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a decision published on 13 March, the Conseil d’État, the French highest administrative court, cancelled the ministerial order (“Arrêté”) by which the Interior Ministry created the ELOI file, a database aimed at facilitating the expulsion of illegal migrants. On 2 October 2006, four French NGOs filed […]
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Cross-border wiretapping proposed by the Swedish Government
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Mikael Odenberg, the Swedish defence minister presented on 8 March 2007 a draft law to the parliament that would give the national defence intelligence agency the power to monitor all cross-border phone calls and email traffic without court order. The proposal, which according to the government, is […]
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Consumer Protection Commissioner wants to see changes in iTunes
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Many consumer rights organizations in Germany, Norway, France and Finland have gathered to take common actions against Apples on its iTunes bundling services, but new concerns are expressed also by the EU Consumer Protection Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva. In an interview for the German weekly Focus, Kuneva was […]
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Russian deputy sues a commentator on his blog for insult
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Viktor Alksnis, a Duma State deputy, has acted on his threat to take to court blogger Timofey Shevyakov, a LifeJournal user, for insults addressed to the former as a state authority. The deputy started his blog on the LifeJournal on 3 February, wanting to “demonstrate the everyday […]
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UK Home Office plans to fingerprint children starting 11
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) “Restricted” documents circulated among officials in the UK Identity and Passport have shown Home Office plans to fingerprint children aged 11 years and over, beginning with 2010, as part of the programme for the introduction of new biometric passports and ID cards. The fingerprints are to be […]
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Consolidated "Audiovisual without Frontiers" Directive
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the first reading in the European Parliament of the new proposed Television without Frontiers directive, the European Commission has made the new consolidated text public on 9 March 2007 . The initial proposal was criticized by Internet media specialists and some significant changes were adopted by […]
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ENDitorial: French law on delinquency: the threat to FoE is elsewhere
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The new French law for the prevention of delinquency is yet another vehicle to worsen penalties and to increase the prerogatives of the police, when infractions are committed through or using the Internet. The main purpose of this law is to reduce the limitation of penal responsibility […]
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Increased Europol powers need increased data protection policies
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) considers that the changes on the legal basis of Europe’s police (Europol) proposed by the European Parliament meant to increase its powers have to be accompanied by proper data protection rules. The European Parliament has proposed changes that would […]
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E-voting in Estonia for parliamentary elections
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Estonia is the first nation in the world that will allow voting via the Internet during its elections for the Parliament (Riigikogu). The voting will take place on 4 March 2007, but the electronic vote will be cast from 26 February at 9 AM until 28 February […]
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