February 28, 2007

From Schengen to Prüm: Data Protection under 3rd pillar a prerequisite

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) One of the main priorities of the current German presidency, the inclusion of the Prüm’s Treaty into the EU legal framework, is likely to be achieved before its end in 30 June 2007. During its last meeting on 15 February the EU JHA Council agreed on incorporating […]

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July 13, 2011

Dutch Senate "disappointed" with Data Retention Directive evaluation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländischer Senat “enttäuscht” über Evaluierung der VDS-Richtlinie | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Niederl%C3%A4ndischer_Senat_enttaeuscht_ueber_Evaluierung_der_VDS_Richtlinie?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] The same week the Dutch Senate approved a long-anticipated shortening of mandatory retention periods for internet data to six months, it published its correspondence with the Dutch Minister of Security and Justice on the Data Retention Directive evaluation by […]

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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Parliament’s work on copyright enforcement – not worth copying

The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) adopted an Opinion on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement, in response to the European Commission’s Communication entitled “Towards a renewed consensus on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: an EU Action Plan”. It starts by offering support for “the” “follow the money” approach. The only problem […]

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April 8, 2015 · Blogs

Marrakesh Treaty: EU must take action now

In April 2015, the European Union “celebrates” one year since the signature of the Marrakesh Treaty. This Treaty seeks to facilitate access to cultural content to for people who are blind, visually impaired or print disabled. This Treaty makes mandatory for contracting parties to provide exceptions or limitations in their national legislation to the right […]

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June 14, 2017 · Blogs

UN Rapporteur demands respect for freedom of expression online

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye has released a new report, which gives an overview of the problems for freedom of expression and opinion in the Telecommunications and Internet Access Sector. The report also provides general recommendations for states […]

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December 18, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

The many faces of facial recognition in the EU

In this second installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we look at how different EU Member States, institutions and other countries worldwide are responding to the use of this tech in public spaces.

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June 17, 2015 · Blogs

EU continues push for travel surveillance by the back door

The European Commission has released its plans for providing financial support to national security measures. These plans, despite the absence of a legal basis, privacy concerns and a pending EU Court of Justice (CJEU) decision, include the financing of a European mass surveillance measure: namely the long-term storage and exchange of citizens’ air travel data, […]

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August 24, 2016 · Blogs

Romania: Mass surveillance project disguised as eGovernment

The Romanian Intelligence Services (SRI) has recently been granted EU funds for the project “SII Analytics” to acquire software and hardware for “consolidating and assuring eGovernment interoperability between public information systems”. The project seems to aim at gathering all major state owned databases (e.g. citizens and company registry, health card data, fiscal data) in SRI’s […]

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September 21, 2016 · Blogs

Joint Referral Platform: no proof of diligent approach to terrorism

On 28 April 2016, EDRi asked the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission (DG Home) to release more information about a new initiative announced in April 2016, the Joint Referral Platform. What we knew already (or thought we knew) The existence of the Joint Referral Platform was disclosed on 20 April […]

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September 10, 2014 · Blogs

TTIP: where the Good Samaritan meets the Trojan Horse

The EU and US are currently negotiating a Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The US negotiator, the United States Trade Representative, is reported to be soliciting support for inclusion of provisions from Article 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) in TTIP and other trade agreements being negotiated by the US. So far so […]

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March 1, 2011 · Blogs

A blokkolásról szóló parlamenti kompromisszum összefoglalója

PDF Version: http://www.edri.org/files/compromise_hu.pdf Parliament text: http://www.edri.org/files/libe_vote.pdf TÁJÉKOZÓDÓ SZAVAZÁS AZ ANGELILLI JELENTÉSRŐL A blokkolásról szóló parlamenti kompromisszum összefoglalója Február 14-én az EP Állampolgári Jogi, Bel- és Igazságügyi Bizottsága (LIBE) egy kompromisszumos szöveget fogadott el válaszul az Európai Bizottság Internetes blokkolást célzó javaslatára (21. paragrafus, 13. bekezdés). Roberta Angelilli (EPP, Olaszország) előadó vezetésével a Parlament szavazott a […]

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March 1, 2011 · Blogs

ORIENTATION VOTE ON ANGELILLI REPORT

PDF version: http://www.edri.org/files/compromise_en.pdf Parliament text: http://www.edri.org/files/libe_vote.pdf ORIENTATION VOTE ON ANGELILLI REPORT Summary of Parliament Compromise on Blocking On 14 February, the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament adopted a compromise text in response to the European Commission’s proposal on Internet blocking (Article 21 and Recital 13). Under the leadership of rapporteur Roberta Angelilli […]

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