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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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Londoners to pay extra for anonymous travelling
A new price-scheme for public transport in London puts a high price on privacy. Bus and tube tickets in central London will rise up to 25% in price from January 2004. But passengers using the Oyster smartcard will be able to travel at 2003 prices. This plastic card, fitted with a contact-less microchip (RFID), was […]
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Anonymiser reveals identity Dutch pudding-poisoner
The identity of a Dutch pudding-poisoner was revealed through an anonymiser. The Dutchman tried to blackmail Campina, a large dairy producer, by poisoning a tin of pudding. He made Campina open a bank account, get a ‘world card’ with it and deposit 200.000 Euro. Then they had to send him the details of the magnetic […]
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Danish experiment with online voting
15,000 Danish voters in the council of Ishoj, near Copenhagen, are invited to experiment with internet voting during the next elections for the European Parliament, in June 2004. According to the spokesperson from the European Parliament, Soren Sondergaard, the Danes aim at a high voter participation, especially among the young. ‘At the same time it […]
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Air France spies on staff
According to an article in Transfert.net, Air France has been spying for years on some of its staff with the help of a camera hidden behind a clock. A union-member became suspicious when he took a close look at the thick electrical wires going to a clock in a private relaxation room on Roissy airport. […]
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Campaign against proposed IP Enforcement Directive
An international coalition of 39 civil liberties groups and consumer rights organisations sent a letter to the European Union on 11 August urging rejection of the proposed intellectual property enforcement directive. The coalition warns that the proposed Directive is over-broad and threatens civil liberties, innovation, and competition policy. The proposal requires EU Member States to […]
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Finnish MEPs asked to vote against EU software patents
Electric Frontier Finland is gearing up its campaign against software patents while the crucial vote is closing up. As part of this project the organisation sent an open letter to Finnish MEPs, in which it asked for support for amendments on the final report of JURI, the committee on legal affairs from the European Parliament. […]
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New Finnish draft copyright law
The Finnish Ministry of Education has published a new draft copyright law. The new proposal does not differ a lot from an earlier version that was rejected by parliament last February. It is still highly complicated and overzealous. On the positive side the so-called ‘community first sale doctrine’ is now limited to commercial entities only. […]
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Excessive e-government demands in Poland
On the first of July, the Polish Access to Public Data Bill (2001) came into force. The bill obliges up to 10 thousands of public sector institutions (including local government, political parties, public schools, etc…) to put public information (such as information about property, structure, authorities, procedures, etc…) on special web sites. Each institution is […]
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EU Commission finishes Microsoft antitrust probe
The EU Commission is preparing the last steps in it’s antitrust probe against Microsoft. The Commission has been investigating Microsoft practices since 2000 following a complaint by Sun Microsystems. Sun accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant position in the market by not releasing crucial information on the communication between computers and servers running MS Windows. […]
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German debate about wiretapping statistics
After public criticism the German ministry of economy (Bundeswirtschaftsministerium) is withdrawing plans to discontinue the central yearly statistics on wiretapped telephones. In an article in ‘Focus’-magazine the ministry announced its intention to change the next draft of the telecommunications law accordingly. A week later the ministry issued a press release denying the abolishment plan. According […]
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France: 2 court cases about liability of intermediaries
While the E-commerce directive (2000/58/EC) is not yet transposed, in France the liability of intermediaries is decided via jurisprudence. In April the owner of the discussion-website percussions.org was convicted to pay half of the legal costs made by the company Eurodim, because a visitor of the website posted a negative message about the head of […]
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Deep-linking legal in Germany
The German Federal Supreme Court ruled on 17 July that deep links from a news search engine to articles on a publishers web site do not violate German copyright or competition law. The plaintiff, a media group that publishes several newspapers and magazines, including ‘Handelsblatt’ and ‘DM’, sued the search engine provider www.paperboy.de for forbearance. […]
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