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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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New members join EDRI
During the annual general assembly of EDRI-members on 12 June 2004 in Berlin, Germany, two new members were admitted, both from Germany. The Netzwerk Neue Medien (network new media) is a digital civil rights organisation that aims to strengthen and critically analyse the public debate about socio-political aspects of the new media. In February 2003 […]
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EU Parliament renews decision to take Commission to court
The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (JURI) decided today to take the European Commission as well as the Council to court over the final agreement to transfer PNR data to the US without adequate guarantees for data protection. The committee, which met today (16 June 2004) for an extraordinary meeting during the Parliament’s […]
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Berlin declaration on music flatrate
During the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin, from 10 to 12 June 2004, legal scientists and civil rights defenders jointly launched a declaration on collectively managed online rights. The declaration is a response to the call for comments on the Communication from the European Commission on the management of copyright and related rights in […]
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Bulgarian complaint against Microsoft
Bulgarian members of Parliament and Internet Society Bulgaria have filed a case with the Bulgarian Competition Protection Commission against both Microsoft Bulgaria and Microsoft USA. The members of the Bulgarian Parliament Ivan Ivanov and Stoicho Katsarov and the Internet Society Bulgaria signed a letter to the Competition Protection Commission with four points questioning Microsoft practices […]
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Results European elections for digital rights
One of the results of the European elections is the loss of some excellent Members of Parliament. EDRI wishes to thank a number of MEPs that have struggled hard to defend privacy and digital civil rights, but have not been re-elected. As rapporteur of the Directive on privacy and electronic communications, the Italian MEP Marco […]
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Creative Commons license success in the UK and Finland
On 25 May 2004 the Creative Commons licensing scheme gained a major victory in Europe. The BBC announced it will apply a CC-license to the content of its Creative Archive, thus offering free public access to some of their audio and video programming. The CC model turns copyright on its head by explaining the ways […]
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PNR data deal signed by European Commission
An international agreement was signed on 28 May between the European Union and the United States that makes it possible to transfer air passenger data to the US, under certain conditions. It entered into force immediately. This agreement goes hand-in-hand with the Decision adopted two weeks ago by the European Commission, establishing the adequacy of […]
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Belgian consumer group will appeal in copy protection case
On 27 May 2004 the Belgian court of Brussels rejected the complaint made by the consumer organisation Test-Achats (Test Aankoop) against four record companies in Belgium (EMI, Sony, Universal and BMG) about their use of technical copy protection measures. Test-Achats collected 200 complaints from individual members and demanded that the companies would stop using technical […]
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New German proposal for mandatory data retention
According to the German e-zine Heise there is a new proposal for mandatory data retention in Germany. Just a few weeks ago, a final compromise was reached on the new Telecommunications Act, without any obligations for systematic data retention. But the Minister of the Interior, Otto Schily, is now said to work on a law […]
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Polish proposal to demand ID for pre-paid cards
Revising the Polish Telecommunication Act to implement the EU e-communication directives, the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure introduced a new obligation for mandatory identification of buyers of pre-paid GSM-cards. The proposal is brought as an anti-terrorism measure. State officials immediately acknowledged that the ID-demand would not make pre-paid cards totally anonymous, referring to the vivid trade […]
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Two online journalists arrested in the Ukraine
Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) reports the arrest of 2 online journalists in the Ukraine. In two separate incidents, Ukrainian authorities detained the online journalists Kostyantyn Sydorenko and Olexandre Pomytkin. Sydorenko is an online journalist who had been reporting on a mayoral election in the western part of the country. When he went to a local […]
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Recommended reading: report 2003 of the EU network on fundamental rights
The EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights published their 2003 report. The network has been set up by the European Commission, upon request of the European Parliament. Since 2002, it monitors the situation of fundamental rights in the Member States and in the Union, on the basis of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. […]
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