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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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EDRI-gram in other languages
EDRI-gram is available in German, a few days after the English edition. The translation is done by Andreas Krisch from the EDRI-member VIBE!AT – Austrian Association for Internet Users. Translations are available for all 2006 editions at http://www.unwatched.org/ (Parts of) EDRI-gram are also available in Macedonian, a few days after the English edition. The contents […]
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UK Right to Read Campaign
Within the UK the Royal National Institute of the Blind, RNIB, is currently running a Right to Read Campaign, in alliance with several other organisations. This seeks to do something about the huge gap between the number of titles published in print and the small amount that become available in accessible formats, whether from the […]
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Issues
European Digital Rights covers many issues relating to privacy and digital rights, from data retention to copyright and software patents, from the transfer of passenger data to freedom of speech online and the security and privacy problems arising from e-voting. The wide range of topics covered in the bi-weekly newsletter EDRI-gram are thematically organised in […]
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Dutch parliament blocks patent vote
On 1 July 2004 the Dutch Lower House adopted a motion directed at Minister Brinkhorst and State Secretary Van Gennip (Economic Affairs) to withdraw the Dutch vote in support of the Council of Ministers’ text for the Directive on Software Patents. It was quite a surprise the motion was accepted. In a letter to MPs, […]
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UK Big Brother Award for US-VISIT Programme
On 28 July, Privacy International has presented the 6th annual UK Big Brother Awards ceremony. Privacy International took the unusual step of awarding a US initiative for the UK awards because of the almost total silence in the US over this programme. US VISIT will fingerprint all visitors to the US from September of this […]
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New French data protection act not unconstitutional
On 29 July 2004 the French Constitutional Council decided that the proposed new data protection act is not unconstitutional, except for one provision (article 9.3), which has been suppressed from the law. The law is an adoption of the European privacy directive of 1995 (1995/46/EC), and was accepted by the French Senate on 15 July […]
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Danish decree on data retention heavily criticised
On 24 March 2004 the Danish Ministry of Justice released a draft Administrative Order and a set of guidelines for mandatory retention of telecommunication traffic data. It is a follow-up to the ‘anti-terror package’ from 6 June 2002 (Act no. 378), that extended the minimum time for data retention to a year and allowed police […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 2.15, 4 August 2004
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Linux-plans Munich threatened by EU software patents
The plans from the city council of Munich, Germany, to migrate all civil servants to open source Linux software, are endangered by the proposed new EU software patents directive. The Greens in Munich have filed 2 motions on 30 July 2004 demanding more research into how the directive affects the project. A cursory search revealed […]
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Opinion European Court of Justice: perpetual rights for databases
On 8 June 2004, the European Court of Justice issued an opinion on four (similar) cases regarding the database directive ‘sui generis’ right. The opinion seems to grant perpetual protection to databases, and confirms grave public concerns about the impact of the directive on the use and re-use of online information. Though the opinion of […]
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Swiss protest against new personal identification number
The Swiss data protection authorities and several political parties have used a governmental consultation round to protest against a proposal to introduce a new sectoral ID number for persons, the SPIN law. According to the privacy authorities, the proposed law violates both constitutional and data protection principles. The new personal identification number would be sectoral […]
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