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July 5, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 4.13, 5 July 2006

July 5, 2006 · Blogs

Terrorist Finance Tracking Program raises privacy questions

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 22-23 June 2006, the New York Times published a story uncovering an international financial surveillance programme, called Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, run by the US authorities. After the 11 September 2001 attacks, the US Treasury Department and/or CIA starting getting access to international transfer data, available […]

July 5, 2006

Private hotlines questioned at EC Safer Internet Forum

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With its newly adopted Communication on a ‘comprehensive EU strategy to promote and safeguard the rights of the child’, the Commission intends to pursue its global action on children’s rights. One may however wonder whether the strategy for fighting child porn on the Internet, which mostly relies […]

July 5, 2006

Dutch Parliament opposes the new EU IPR draft directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Dutch Parliament stated on 28 June 2006 that the European Commission has no competence to propose a new directive that is focusing on criminalizing intellectual property offences. The statement refers to a new draft directive – Directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of […]

July 5, 2006

German experts think search engines should be monitored

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During the workshop “The Rising Power of Search-Engines on the Internet: Impacts on Users, Media Policy, and Media Business” that took place in Berlin on 26-27 June 2006, the experts expressed the opinion that the search engines should be more regulated. Marcel Machill, a lecturer in journalism […]

July 5, 2006

Swedish company offers file-sharing damage insurance

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Swedish company Tankafritt offers insurance against file sharing law suits damages and intends to expand to other Scandinavian countries. Magnus Brath, the owner of the company, found it in reaction to the recent copyright infringement cases in Sweden. He also thinks he could develop his business in […]

July 5, 2006

New French copyright law gives Apple satisfaction

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The most controversial DADVSI Law, now colloquially known also as “iTunes Law”, was finally adopted in the French Parliament with a compromise allowing Apple to continue operating as before. The law was adopted by the Parliament under emergency regime, which ended with a mixed commission, normally made […]

July 5, 2006

Google's victory in court against German publisher

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has just obtained a significant victory against the German publisher Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG), having asked an injunction in a German court to stop the giant from scanning books in its Books Library project. WBG dropped their case on 28 June after the judge told them they […]

July 5, 2006

Consultation launched by UK government on the controversial RIPA act

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK government has launched a consultation on codes of practice covering the implementation of its communications surveillance laws that, lately, have been largely debated on by privacy campaigners, internet service providers as well as security specialists. The UK Government has launched a public consultation on Part I […]

July 5, 2006

IPRED Directive Implementation in Italy

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) By Legislative Decree no.140 of 16 March 2006, with more than one month before the deadline, Italy implemented Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED) by amending law no.633/1941, which has already been the subject of so many modifications since its inception that several […]

July 5, 2006

News on CoE activities on Human Rights in the Information Society

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 20 June, Rikke Frank Joergensen (Digital Rights Denmark) and Meryem Marzouki (Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire, IRIS – France) participated as EDRI observers to the 5th Council of Europe meeting of the Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS). Among the many […]

July 5, 2006

Book launch on Human Rights in the Global Information Society

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new book on Human Rights in the Global Information Society, edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen (EDRI board member from Digital Rights DK) was presented 23 June 2006 in Copenhagen. In the book, a number of scholars, human rights activists and practitioners examine the links between information […]