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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 Committee approves of Buttiglione
Representatives of the European Parliament’s Social Democrat, Liberal, Green and Left Groups uttered harsh words after the Parliamentary hearing of Rocco Buttiglione (Italy), Commissioner-designate for Justice, Freedom and Security and designated Vice-President of the European Commission. He was interrogated a second time by the parliamentary Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on […]
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New EU questionnaire on spam
The European Commission and the Dutch EU presidency have distributed 2 new questionnaires on spam, “to assess progress in the EU on combating ‘spam’ following the Communication on this issue of January 2004 that identified relevant action for all interested parties.” One questionnaire is addressed to industry, the second questionnaire to Member States and the […]
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WIPO conference report by Ben Wallis (TACD)
How does the work of WIPO – the World Intellectual Property Organization – affect the daily lives of the world’s six billion plus consumers? Is WIPO’s mission and work inherently exclusive, benefiting only the richer countries and consumers and harming the poor? Does WIPO need a new mission to embrace new information technologies and to […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 2.19, 6 October 2004
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New EDRI website
European Digital Rights today launches a new website, with a new logo and up-to-date information on campaigns and news items. The website is created with the open source content management system Drupal, and offers new features, such as an RSS-feed of the main news articles and press releases. The main advantage of the new site […]
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Biometrics experts sceptical about quick introduction
The Europarl Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) today organised a hearing with experts on biometrics. In his opening remarks the MEP Carlos Coelho (Conservative, Portugal) said he generally agreed with the objective of securing people’s identities, but has some doubts about adding biometric identifiers to travel documents. Coelho is the rapporteur […]
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Change in Germany's position on data retention
According to an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany is changing its position on the proposal from the EU Council to oblige telecom and internet providers to store traffic data about all their customers for 12 to 36 months. The legislative chamber that represents Germany’s 16 states on national issues (the Bundesrat) voted on […]
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7 of 10 NL providers remove public domain text
7 out of 10 internet providers in the Netherlands remove a text by the famous Dutch author Multatuli (who died in 1887), without even looking at the webpage, or verifying the identity of the plaintiff. These are the results of an experiment conducted this summer by the Dutch EDRI-member Bits of Freedom about complaint procedures […]
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Germany attempts to censor website on censorship
The district government of Dusseldorf, Germany is bringing the anti-censorship activist Alvar Freude to court. The hearing starts tomorrow, on 7 October 2004. Freude is accused of posting hyper-links to censored websites with radical right-wing content on his website and thus helping to promote the distribution of the materials. Freude on the other hand claims […]
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RFID workshop FIfF anniversary conference
The RFID workshop organised during the FIfF anniversary conference (Berlin, 30 September – 3 October 2004) offered an excellent overview of the technical issues and privacy questions. Robert Gehring introduced the history of RFID, and explained passive chips were first used in World War II air-planes to detect the proximity of enemy planes. The chips […]
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Nominations Swiss Big Brother Awards
The organising committee of the Swiss Big Brother Awards today presented a selection of candidates for the Big Brother Award. A jury of 13 well known individuals will choose the winners out of this selection. Half of the 52 public nominations were sent in for the ‘State’ category, including several police departments, the district council […]
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Report about WIPO conference
How does the work of WIPO – the World Intellectual Property Organisation – affect the daily lives of the world’s six billion plus consumers? Is WIPO’s mission and work inherently exclusive, benefiting only the richer countries and consumers and harming the poor? Does WIPO need a new mission to embrace new information technologies and to […]
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