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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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Brussels workshop on telecom data retention
The consultation from the European Commission on new EU plans for mandatory retention of telecom traffic data resulted in 65 answers, most of them negative about any regime of mandatory data retention. Two thirds of the answers came from industry (telephony and internet providers, both individual companies as well as associations) and almost one third […]
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90 civil right organisations endorse PI/EDRI statement
90 civil rights organisations across Europe, the United States and other countries around the world have signed a long statement against the recent EU plans for mandatory data retention. Also 89 companies (mostly specialised in IT) have endorsed the statement that calls the plans ‘invasive, illusory, illegal and illegitimate’. The statement was an anwer to […]
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Meeting on Danish data retention draft
“This is not something industry wants”, a representative from the Danish IT-industry Association stated at a meeting on data retention in Copenhagen on 21 September 2004. The meeting was arranged in response to the massive criticism raised by the industry, cooperative housing associations, civil liberty groups and others earlier this year. The meeting was convened […]
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Dutch police report: traffic data seldom essential
Telephone traffic data are only necessary to solve crimes in a minority of police investigations. Most cases can be solved without access to traffic data, with the exception of large fraud investigations. These are the conclusions of a Dutch police report produced at the request of the Dutch ministry of Justice. The report was recently […]
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DPA conference backed by civil society meeting
The protection of privacy and personal data is an integral part of the principle of human dignity, as enshrined in all important documents on Human Rights, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the draft European Constitution. It should therefore be a priority in any civilised society. These were the conclusions of Stefano Rodotà , […]
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Civil society answers to DRM consultation
In response to an informal consultation by the European Commission on a report on the future of Digital Rights Management (DRM), several digital rights organisations have sent in statements. The report was prepared by a High Level Group consisting of companies and industry groups. As user representative only the European Consumers Union (BEUC) was invited […]
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Europarl Committee hears de Vries and Schaar
The European Parliament’s LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) organised an interesting opening session of the new parliamentary year on 21 September. For the occasion, the parliamentarians were joined by colleagues from a number of national parliaments. They had invited two speakers representing the opposite poles of EU Justice and Home Affairs policy. […]
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Autistici wins case over railroad parody site
The Italian hostingprovider Austici does not have to remove a satirical website it hosts with a parody on the website of the Italian railroad company Trenitalia. On 14 September 2004 the court of Milan rejected a request from Trenitalia to remove the ‘offending content’ and impose a fine on the provider. The court decided that […]
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Dutch EU presidency critical about software patents
The Dutch EU presidency has commissioned a report with very critical remarks about software patents. “The mild regime of IP protection in the past has led to a very innovative and competitive software industry with low entry barriers. A software patent, which serves to protect invention of a non-technical nature, could kill the high innovation […]
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1 million entries in Wikipedia
On 17 September 2004, the experimental free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia reached 1 million (approved) entries. Every internet user can write entries, and suggest improvements for any other entry. This idea has proven extremely viable in the last 4 years. Wikipedia now provides information in 100 languages, 14 of which offer more than 10.000 articles each. […]
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90 organisations support PI / EDRI statement against data retention
Privacy International (PI) and European Digital Rights (EDRI) have published their joint answer to the consultation on mandatory data retention. The Directorate Generals on Information Society and on Justice and Home Affairs from the European Commission asked for public comments on a proposed retention regime across Europe between 12 and 36 months for all traffic […]
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CLOSED Call for Action – EDRI and Privacy International campaign against mandatory data retention
The EU plans the wide-spread retention of personal data resulting from communications, or so-called traffic data. We argue that any such retention is necessarily a hazardously invasive act. With the progress of technology, this data is well beyond being simple logs of who we’ve called and when we called them. Traffic data can now be […]
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