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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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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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Nominations Hungarian BBA
In Hungary, the fourth annual ceremony of the Big Brother Awards will take place on 25 November 2004. Nominations for the person, company and organisation that have excelled in violating privacy and enhancing control over citizens can be entered via a webform until 28 September. From 11 to 25 October internet users will be able […]
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Privacy Policy
European Digital Rights has a clear and simple privacy policy. We collect as little personal data as possible. !!E-mail If you subscribe to EDRI-gram, your e-mail address will only be used by the editor appointed by the EDRI-members to send you the newsletter. Subscriber information will not be provided, rented or sold to any third […]
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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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