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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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Digital Restriction Management – drm.info
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 3 October 2006, the first Anti-DRM day, a new collaborative information platform about the potential dangers of Digital Restriction Management (DRM) was launched. The DRM.info was initiated by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and is supported by a group of organisations and authors. The main […]
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ENDitorial : PNR & Institutional Mechanisms of Privacy Protection
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A small detail on the EU-US agreement over the transfer of air passenger name records (PNR), and a non-related statement by US president George W. Bush, taken together give a nice highlight on the institutional mechanisms of privacy protection. EU Commissioner Frattini told the press on 6 […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 4.18, 27 September 2006
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Privacy protection does not hold back the fight against terrorism
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a press conference on 18 September, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) expressed the opinion that terrorism fighting legislation must observe data protection rights. The EDPS has advised EU bodies on relevant and very controversial data protection issues like the transfer of PNR-data, the […]
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Belgium says no to Google News
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belgium newspaper group Copiepress sued Google News, considering they should have asked its permission and agreed financial terms when publishing material from their Belgium newspapers. Google lost in the first instance, but also the appeal against the ruling given on 5 September 2006. Facing a 1 […]
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Europe faces software patents threat again
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The software patents issue will be back, once again, for discussion, with the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) proposal which calls for the harmonization of patent laws in EU states. EPLA could to be voted on 11 October 2006 in the European Parliament. Last year, the Parliament […]
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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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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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