March 11, 2009

Swedish Pirate Bay trial waiting now for the decision

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Entscheidung im Schwedischen Pirate Bay-Prozess erwartet | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1331] The Pirate Bay trial in Sweden continued until 3 March 2009 with the hearings of the prosecution and defence witnesses. The earlier events of the trial were covered in the previous EDRi-gram. While a day before, the representatives of the […]

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March 11, 2009

Yahoo penalised in Belgium for not disclosing personal data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Yahoo in Belgien für versäumte Offenlegung persönlicher Daten abgestraft| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1333] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Јаху казнет во Белгија поради… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1403/4/lang,mk/] Yahoo was fined by a Belgian court on 2 March 2009 for refusing to hand over to the Belgium authorities personal data of people […]

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January 30, 2013 · Blogs

Finnish copyright law might be changed following crowdsourcing support

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnland: Volksbegehren könnte bald neues Urheberrecht erwirken | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.2_Finnland_Volksbegehren_koennte_bald_neues_Urheberrecht_erwirken?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130207] People may be able to influence the fate of the copyright legislation in Finland due to a recent modification of the national Constitution allowing citizens to make legislative proposals for the Parliament. The Finnish Constitution says that a private […]

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September 26, 2007

German police does not understand Tor

Alexander Janssen, a German operator of a Tor exit server, has recently revealed in his blog that, at the end of July 2007, the German police arrested him, checked out his entire house and seized his equipment during an investigation of bomb threats considered to have passed through an Internet protocol address that was under […]

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October 10, 2007

German DP Commissioner against Google-Doubleclick deal

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Data Protection Commissioner of the German state of Shleswig-Holstein Thilo Weichert publicly opposed the Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick in a letter to EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Mr. Weichert declared that: “At present we have to assume that in the event of a takeover of DoubleClick […]

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February 27, 2013 · Blogs

Controversial unitary patent court system signed by EU Ministers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Patentgerichtsbarkeit: EU-Minister unterzeichnen umstrittene Vereinbarung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.4_Patentgerichtsbarkeit_EU-Minister_unterzeichnen_umstrittene_Vereinbarung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130227] After in December 2012 the European Parliament approved the proposal for a flawed unified patent court system that will put innovation at risk, on 19 February 2013, the Ministers from 24 EU member States backed the proposal by signing the agreement. […]

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October 23, 2013 · Blogs

Increased level of online censorship in Italy

AGECOM, Italy’s independent Electronic Communications Authority, is on the verge of undertaking the power of ordering the removal of any online content that it deems to be in violation of the copyright law, without the need of the parliament or court approval. Despite strong criticism from NGOs, ISPs, other companies or legal practitioners, the authority’ […]

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November 20, 2013 · Blogs

Bogus hearing of the UK intelligence agencies

On 7 November 2013, the heads of the three UK internal and foreign intelligence agencies, GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, were publicly heard by UK’s secretive intelligence and security committee (ISC) concerning Snowden’s leaks regarding the mass surveillance by US and UK intelligence. Although this was a historical even being the first instance when heads of […]

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April 11, 2012

Draft Online Safety Bill to block pornographic sites in UK

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [UK: Gesetz über Online-Sicherheit zur Sperre pornografischer Seiten in Vorbereitung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.7_UK_Gesetz_ueber_Online-Sicherheit_zur_Sperre_pornografischer_Seiten_in_Vorbereitungpk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120411] A new bill proposed to the House of Lords by Baroness Howe of Ildicote, requires ISPs and mobile operators to “provide a service that excludes pornographic images” and electronic device manufacturers to include ways to filter […]

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February 11, 2015 · Blogs

Facing a challenge – understanding Facebook’s opt-out instructions

Following Facebook’s new changes in its terms of service, the company has provided a public relations pitch about “your information” and how Facebook “respects the choices that you make” about the advertising that you see. In particular, it says “That’s why Facebook respects the choices you make about the ads you see, across every device. […]

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February 11, 2015 · Blogs

Yet another internet blocking law in Turkey

This article is also available in: Deutsch: Neues Gesetz über Internetsperren in der Türkei In recent years, online censorship and the deteriorating situation regarding the freedom of speech has raised serious concerns in Turkey. The large majority of the traditional mainstream media is either directly or indirectly under the government control, and the Internet remains one […]

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July 29, 2009

Russian copyright law will apply to news reports

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Russisches Urheberrechtsgesetz wird für Nachrichtenberichte gelten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1486] A new modification in the Russian copyright legislation was drafted by the Government in order to extend the protection to news reports. The new draft was pushed by the biggest Russian news agencies which were claiming that other regional and […]

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