June 10, 2013 · Blogs

PRISM explains the wider lobbying issues surrounding EU data protection reform

The European Commission’s Communication on Cloud Computing (pdf) forecasts a spend of 45 billion Euro on such services in the EU in 2020. The stakes are therefore huge for the countries and regions that can show themselves to be trustworthy for the processing of both personal and business data. With no comprehensive federal privacy legislation […]

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May 2, 2016 · Blogs | Information democracy | Digital rights in trade agreements | Transparency

BREAKING: TTIP leaks confirm dangers for digital rights

Today, Greenpeace has unveiled documents on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), including the telecommunications chapter and EU’s Tactical State of Play of March 2016. The leaks show an ideological drive towards deregulation and law enforcement by private companies , said Joe McNamee, Executive Director of European Digital Rights (EDRi). This would sweep away […]

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January 16, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Advocate General issues two Opinions on “right to be forgotten”

On 10 January 2019, the Advocate General (AG) Maciej Szpunar delivered two Opinions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that could have far-reaching implications for the “right to be forgotten”, which aims at enabling individuals to lead an autonomous life without stigmatisation from their past actions.

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October 27, 2015 · Blogs

Net neutrality: The European Parliament has decided not to decide

The European Parliament today voted for a Regulation on a Single Market for Electronic Communications. The EU institutions will claim that this will protect net neutrality. This is sadly not true.

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November 20, 2014 · Blogs

Leaked documents show net neutrality may be in danger!

On 14 November 2014, the Italian Presidency presented amendments to the Telecommunications package for comment by the Member State delegations. We are hereby making the document and its annexes publicly available (Note and addendum). These documents show that the Italian Presidency is now back-pedalling on meaningful net neutrality protections – having previously made some much […]

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June 24, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet

EU Commission discards criticism of net neutrality enforcement

On 30 April 2019, EDRi and 31 other civil rights organisations sent an open letter to the EU Commission and BEREC. The letter criticised the lack of enforcement of current net neutrality rules in Europe. The signatories also emphasised that the EU finally needs to act against the widespread use of zero-rating practices. Zero-rating favours […]

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January 31, 2007

European Commission gets new complaints on Vista

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A group of Microsoft’s rivals has filed a complaint against the Seattle-based company for using its new product Vista, under release these days, to unfairly continue and even strengthen its dominant position on the market. The group including IBM, Nokia, RealNetworks, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Corel, Opera, Oracle, […]

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January 30, 2008

New spying tools patented by Microsoft

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) According to The Times, a patent application has been filed by Microsoft for a computer software that can monitor the employees’ performance and state, by means of wireless sensors linking workers to their computers. The system, considered by Microsoft a “unique monitoring system”, is capable of measuring […]

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March 29, 2006

Internet under attack on election day in Belarus

On 19 March 2006, date of the presidential elections in Belarus, the major online independent news resources (svaboda.org, charter97.org, belapan.com, ucpb.org, naviny.by, kozylin.com, zubr-belarus.com) were the targets of various types of attacks. The Website of “Nasha Niva” newspaper was not available from Belarus on 18 March on the Internet. Other problems were spotted in accessing […]

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August 27, 2003

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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April 12, 2006

Legal actions against file-sharers in Europe

About 2000 new legal actions are taken in 10 countries by the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) against file-sharers amounting now to a total number of 5500 cases outside US. IFPI persists in its actions against uploaders, stating it targets persistent file-sharers, who typically upload thousands of music files. “The campaign started in major […]

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October 19, 2011

Phorm gets back on the European stage

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Phorm zurück auf dem europäischen Parkett | www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.20_Phorm_zurueck_auf_dem_europaeischen_Parkett?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111028] After its implementation in UK failed, Phorm wants a fresh start by placing its foot in the European market through a partnership deal with Romtelecom in Romania. With no public debate before the launch at the end of September, Romtelecom […]

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