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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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Recommended reading: cctv and workplace privacy
In the series Information Technology & Law, the Dutch University of Tilburg has published a volume on camera surveillance and workplace privacy, which includes 11 country reports. The European countries covered by the report are: the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Germany, Hungary and Italy. The editors argue that Europeans, similar to the US, have a […]
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Montreux Data Protection Commissioners Conference 2005
European Digital Rights is kindly inviting all interested people to attend a special public pre-event to the annual DPA conference in Montreux, Switzerland on 13 September 2005. EDRI, together with other NGO’s defending digital civil rights, is organising two panels, on biometrics and on data retention. Strategies for International Privacy Protection =Issues, Actors, and Future […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 3.18, 8 September 2005
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UK Presidency attacks European Convention of Human Rights
In order to convince the European Parliament of the need for mandatory data retention, the UK presidency of the EU has challenged the validity of the European Convention of Human Rights. The UK Home Office secretary, Mr Clarke, basically told the European Parliament on 7 September that the 50 year old convention was outdated. Talking […]
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UK police workshop and paper on data retention
On Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 September the UK presidency tried its best to convince member of the European Parliament to give up their resistance against mandatory data retention. On Monday the parliamentary committee on civil liberties was addressed by the UK chairman of the criminal matters working group, Simon Watkin and by the London […]
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New French anti-terrorism surveillance plans
The French newspaper Le Monde has a number of articles on new plans from the French government for anti-terrorism legislation. On 6 September the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin presented a rough impression of 16 new measures to the members of parliament. The package will be presented to the Council of Ministers in October 2005. […]
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Preview Montreux conference Data Protection Authorities
European Digital Rights, together with a number of other international digital rights organisations, is organising two panels on data retention and on biometrics, as a pre-event to the annual DPA conference in Montreux, Switzerland on 13 September 2005. It is widely expected the Chair of the Article 29 Working Party, Peter Schaar, will close the […]
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UK wants to ban viewing of violent porn
The UK government is planning to outlaw the possession of “extreme pornographic material”. The proposed new law is outlined in a consultation document published by the UK Home Office. The consultation sets out “options for creating a new offence of simple possession of extreme pornographic material which is graphic and sexually explicit and which contains […]
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Finnish ISPs must voluntarily block access
Ms Leena Luhtanen, Minister of Transport and Communications, announced on 26 August 2005 that Finnish ISPs will implement a censorship system to curb access to foreign web pages containing child pornography. The announcement was accompanied by a study conducted by the ministry exploring the legal and practical aspects of such a system. The study concludes […]
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UK cancels Internet voting plans
The UK government has announced it will drop pilots with Internet and telephone votes, scheduled for the local elections in May 2006. Answering a parliamentary question, Harriet Harman, the minister responsible, said government no longer looked for pilot requests from local authorities. She explained the time was not yet right for e-voting. This is a […]
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New appeal Microsoft against European Commission
Microsoft has launched a second appeal case against the anti-trust decision by the European Commission in March 2004. On 10 August 2005 Microsoft filed a new complaint at the European Court of Justice (First Instance) in Luxembourg, asking for annulment of the decision to open up the Windows source code enough to create interoperability and […]
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Petition update
The EDRI and XS4ALL petition against data retention has attracted almost 42.000 signatures, of which over 16.000 from the Netherlands (where the campaign was launched) and over 5.000 from Germany and Finland. Runners-up in the daily country count are Sweden and Bulgaria (almost 2.000 each), followed by Austria (almost 1.500) and Italy (well over 1.000). […]
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