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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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Online campaign against data retention started in Germany
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 September, the German Working Group against Data Retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) started an online campaign against the mandatory storage of all communications data. Through a special web portal, concerned citizens can send electronic open letters to all 448 parliamentarians of the ruling grand coalition and raise […]
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The draft Audiovisual Media Service Directive considered unnecessary
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Office of Communications (Ofcom), the UK communications regulator, commissioned a research report on the draft Audiovisual Media Service (AVMS) directive proposed by the European Commission in December 2005, as an extension to the Television Without Frontiers (TWF) Directive. The AVMS directive was proposed as a new […]
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Global Freedom of Information Survey
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy International released on 20 September 2006 a comprehensive review of Freedom of Information (FOI) Laws and practices in nearly 70 countries around the world, including almost 40 countries from Europe Titled “Freedom of Information Around the World 2006 Global Survey of Access to Government Information Laws”, […]
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Microsoft Vista gets criticism before its launching in Europe
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Vista, the new operating system developed by Microsoft, has received vivid criticism from European officials and possible competitors regarding the new features that might take advantage of the Microsoft position in the market. Two major software companies, Symantec and Adobe, have complained to EU regarding certain electronic […]
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Italian authorities messed up by the wiretapping scandal
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Italian wiretapping scandal has continued since this summer, showing that Telecom Italia internal security service has tapped phone calls from their own employees, business partners, competition, but also from political and football circles. The wiretapped phone calls database was apparently used to blackmail various people. According […]
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TOR servers seized in Germany
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The public prosecutor’s office of Konstanz, Germany raided, during the last weekend some computing centres and seized several servers that were running copies of TOR, a well known software used for the anonymisation of the Internet usage. The action was related to a child pornography case, and, […]
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Opposition to draft WIPO Broadcast Treaty
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Several representatives of the IT, telecommunications, consumer electronics industry, public interest organizations and performers joined in a common statement issued on 5 September to oppose the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations. The treaty creates a new class of IP rights meant to […]
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Online services under investigation for breaching UK Data Protection Act
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) E-Bay auction site is investigated by UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), as Privacy International has considered the site has infringed the Data Protection Act. The Data Protection Act obliges companies to allow people to delete their personal information. Privacy International claims that although not impossible, deleting accounts […]
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License to hack: domestic Internet intelligence powers growing in Germany
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz) in the German state of North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) will be allowed to hack into the computers of terrosist suspects, if a bill currently under discussion in the state parliament is adopted. According to the bill, the agency will get the new competence […]
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Hungary: Act on classified information reloaded
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the end of July 2006, the Office of the Hungarian Prime Minister released their legislative plans for the Autumn comprising the Act on classified information. Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) have filed two requests inquiring about the details of the draft, but the PM’s Office refused […]
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Russian copyright law gets tougher
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) New changes in the Russian copyright law entered into force on 1 September 2006, giving the same legal regime to the electronic documents as to the traditional ones. The new provisions were adopted by the Russian Duma in 2004, but their application was delayed in order to […]
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EU Green paper on surveillance technology
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) has adopted a green paper on surveillance technology used by the civil society in the fight against terrorism, that will be open for public consultation until the end of this year. The green paper, resulted from a public conference (Public-Private Security Dialogue: Detection […]
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