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EDRI-gram – Number 4.10, 24 May 2006
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Big Brother Awards Italy 2006
From 19 May to 20 May Florence has hosted the E-Privacy 2006 conference, organized as usual – by the Winston Smith Project with the help of several volunteers. This edition saw a much larger participation than 2005: the participants could hardly fit the hall of Palazzo Vecchio, and several people had to stand for the […]
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Application of the FOI law in Macedonia
The Parliament of Macedonia adopted the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Character in February 2006. NGO activists made some effort to make some quality changes to the proposed law and as a result some essential recommendations were accepted and implemented in the law. Although three months have past since the adoption of […]
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PM supports UK ID Cards Act
Tony Blair stated a strong support for the ID card Act that was initially rejected by the House of Lords in January this year. The Government had considered the card as essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration, and identity theft. However, the House of Lords required from the Government to give further clarifications […]
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Recommending Reading
From 15 to 17 May the University of Illinois Chicago (USA) hosted the conference “FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content”. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of “First Monday”, the first peer-reviewer journal born on the Internet. The final day of the conference gathered a group that brainstormed over the first draft of the “Chicago […]
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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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