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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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EU Parliament Members want more privacy in SIS II
The Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs at the European Parliament debated the draft Regulation on the establishment, operation and use of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II). There was a consensus among members of the committee that better privacy safeguards are needed for the SIS II, especially because it will […]
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EU moves to criminalise IP offences
The European Commission has revived a proposal to criminalise infringement of all intellectual property rights “on a commercial scale” after a European Court of Justice ruling that the Commission may include criminal offences in their Directives. The proposal would also criminalise the “attempting, aiding or abetting and inciting” of infringement, and introduce multi-year jail sentences, […]
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Three Spanish courts uphold validity of music free licenses
Spanish courts have upheld three times already the validity of music free licenses. In the three cases, the Sociedad General de Autores (SGAE), Spanish music copyright collecting society, sued some open public premises on alleged rights to the music listened therein. In all the three cases, the defences demonstrated that the music played was downloaded […]
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Alarming results from Italian experimental e-voting
During the recent Italian political elections an experimental e-voting system for counting votes – not for expressing the vote itself – has been used in several polling places. The system has been used in parallel with normal, manual counting operations; but it was quite clear that the goal of such experiments was to progressively switch […]
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Passports with biometrics for Romanians
Starting with 1 January 2007, passports containing electronic chips will be put into circulation for the Romanian citizens. The passports will include a storage system (probably RFID) for personal data, including a facial image and digital fingerprints. The present passports will preserve their validity and they will be replaced at the request of the citizens. […]
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Chechen web site shut down in Sweden
After many complaints from Russia, the Swedish authorities closed up on 5 May, Kavkazcenter.com, a Chechen separatist Web site that allegedly encouraged terrorism. The police arrived at PRQ Web hosting company in Stockholm with a search warrant and confiscated two servers. The Finish owner of the servers, Mikael Storsjo, told Swedish news agency TT that […]
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Role of the developing countries in WSIS process
A special panel discussed the role of the developing countries in the WSIS panel at this year conference Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2006 (CFP 2006) that took place in Washington DC between 2-5 May. The participants tried to identify what was the place of the developing countries in shaping the future of the Internet in […]
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Public debate on draft anti-terror act in Denmark
On May 10 2006, a public hearing was held in the Danish Parliament on a new proposal for an anti-terror act including surveillance measures. The proposed law may increase camera surveillance, obliges carriers to store passenger data for one year and introduces new measures for the intelligence service. According to the proposal, the intelligence service […]
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Hamburg court rules against forum providers
The first-instance court of Hamburg gave its final ruling on the liability of forum comments, stating that moderators of internet forums are liable for content posted on their sites. Initially, the legislation held forum providers liable for illegal content they had knowledge about and there was no obligation for them to search for such content. […]
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Access to Knowledge in the digital world
From 21 June to 23 June, Yale Law School hosted the first international “Access to Knowledge” (A2K) conference. Following two workshops on the same theme held in 2005 in Geneva and London, the aim of this conference was to “come up with a new analytic framework for analysing the possibly distortive effects of public policies […]
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German music industry wants new powers
Representatives of the German music industry asked for new powers in order to obtain, without court order, personal information about alleged file-sharers from Internet Service Providers. In a recent event held in Munich by the Institute of Copyright and Media Law, representatives of the rights holder associations claimed that this change would improve the fight […]
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OECD focuses on global cooperation in tackling spam
A new recommendation on the cross-border co-operation in the enforcement of laws against spam was adopted by the OECD Council session on 13 April 2006, completing the Anti-spam toolkit promoted by OECD since 2004. The recommendation admits that there is not single solution for tackling the spam issues and the international cooperation is the key […]
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