November 16, 2011

33rd International DPA Conference in Mexico City

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [33. Internationale Datenschutz Konferenz in Mexico City | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.22_33_Internationale_Datenschutzkonferenz_in_Mexico_City?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111116] The 33rd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners was held in Mexico City, on 2-3 November 2011, hosted by IFAI (The Mexican Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection). This year theme, “Privacy, the Global […]

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July 2, 2008

Control on Internet users pushed with the new telecom package

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) An appeal from three European NGOs – La Quadrature du Net, netzpolitik.org and EDRi-member Open Rights Group – reveal some disturbing MEPs amendments to the draft directives to reform the EU framework on electronic communications (telecom package). The review of the telecom package was merely focusing on […]

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January 28, 2009

EU proposal puts confidential communications data at risk

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Civil liberties groups La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi), AK Vorrat, and Netzpolitik.org are urging the European Parliament to heed advice given by the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx and scrap plans dubbed “voluntary data retention”. “A proposal currently discussed in the European Parliament […]

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July 2, 2008

ECJ first hearing on data retention case

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 1 June 2008, the first hearing by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Ireland’s action for the annulment of the directive on data retention took place in Luxembourg. Ireland, later on joined by Slovakia, filed an action with ECJ against the European Council and Parliament […]

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November 30, 2011

Proposed US-EU PNR Agreement made public

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Details zum geplanten US-EU PNR-Abkommen durchgesickert | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Details_zum_geplanten_US_EU_PNR_Abkommen_durchgesickert?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] On 17 November 2011, U.S. and EU officials initialled a proposed agreement to authorize airlines to forward passenger name record (PNR) data to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Although the agreement cannot take effect without the approval of […]

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November 21, 2012

Abandoning safe harbours: Hungarian online freedoms at risk

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ungarn: Die Freiheit des Internets steht auf dem Spiel | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Ungarn_Die_Freiheit_des_Internets_steht_auf_dem_Spiel?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Restrictions on freedom of expression and on access to information would be two repercussions of recently drafted changes to Hungary’s Criminal Code. The law would allow the government to “block” and potentially delete online material if hosting […]

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January 28, 2009

Some EU data protection policy developments in 2008

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Will the 2008 be remembered as the Data Retention implementation year or the first Freedom not Fear day? As always with the conclusions, we might answer better this question in 2009 or 2018. But let’s look at some facts from the last year now One of the […]

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July 5, 2006

News on CoE activities on Human Rights in the Information Society

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 20 June, Rikke Frank Joergensen (Digital Rights Denmark) and Meryem Marzouki (Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire, IRIS – France) participated as EDRI observers to the 5th Council of Europe meeting of the Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS). Among the many […]

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January 28, 2009

Towards International Data Protection Standards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In October 2008, the 30th International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners in Strassbourg adopted a resolution on the urgent need for protecting privacy in a borderless world, and for reaching a Joint Proposal for setting International Standards on Privacy and Personal Data Protection. Following this […]

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July 5, 2006

Book launch on Human Rights in the Global Information Society

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new book on Human Rights in the Global Information Society, edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen (EDRI board member from Digital Rights DK) was presented 23 June 2006 in Copenhagen. In the book, a number of scholars, human rights activists and practitioners examine the links between information […]

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November 30, 2011

Two years into the Stockholm Programme: on the way to e-Fortress Europe?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zwei Jahre Stockholm Programm: Europa auf dem Weg zu einer elektronischen Festung? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Zwei_Jahre_Stockholmer_Programm_Europa_auf_dem_Weg_zu_einer_elektronischen_Festung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] It has been two years now since the Stockholm Programme – a 5-year plan for Justice and Home Affairs – was adopted. On 24 November 2011, an experts’ and activists’ round table, organised in […]

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July 16, 2008

Complaint against the French govt to annul the biometric passport decree

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two French associations, EDRi-member Imaginons un réseau internet solidaire (IRIS) and Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH), have filed a complaint against the French government before the highest administrative Court. They ask the French Conseil d’État to annul the decree issued on 30 April 2008 by the […]

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