February 8, 2017 · Blogs

SHARE Foundation honoured with a certificate of gratitude

Data Protection Day was celebrated on 28 January, and it was especially festive for EDRi observer SHARE Foundation. The organisation received a certificate of gratitude from the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection of Serbia for their immense contribution to affirmation of the right to protection of personal data.

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March 23, 2016 · Blogs

EPIC Intervenes in Privacy Case at European Court of Human Rights

EPIC filed a third-party intervention with the European Court of Human Rights in a significant case about mass surveillance and transatlantic co-operation between intelligence agencies. The 10 Human Rights Organizations and Others v the UK (24960/15) case involves a challenge brought by NGOs from all around the world including Privacy International, the American Civil Liberties […]

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January 29, 2014 · Blogs

UK government must justify its large-scale surveillance activities

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asks the UK government to justify how GCHQ’s practices comply with the right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention. The ECtHR’s action follows a case brought by Big Brother Watch, the EDRi member Open Rights Group, English PEN and the German Internet activist Constanze Kurz […]

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June 4, 2003

Finnish protest against EU copyright plans

EDRI-member Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) submitted a statement on a proposed EU Directive to harmonise the enforcement of intellectual property laws, including copyrights and patents, across member states. According to EFFI, the new directive is based too unilaterally on studies made for the media industry. For example, the proposal compares piracy to drug trade and […]

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January 29, 2014 · Blogs

Spain court orders an ISP to disconnect a user for P2P file sharing

For the first time in Spain, a court has ruled that an ISP must disconnect one of its users for having shared P2P music files. In a case brought to the court by Promusicae, an association of Spanish music producers, against the Spanish ISP R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, the Barcelona Court of Appeals has […]

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September 4, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

E-Commerce review: Safeguarding human rights when moderating online content

This is the fourth and last blog post in our series on Europe’s future rules for intermediary liability and content moderation. You can read the introduction here. In our previous blog posts on the upcoming E-Commerce review, we discussed examples of what can go wrong with online content regulation. But let’s imagine for a moment […]

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January 31, 2007

EFFI won a court case about donation-pages in Finland

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Helsinki district court released 31 January 2007 Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) from charges on illegal fund raising on the Internet. The board members faced criminal charges and it was further demanded that EFFI transfers all illegal donations totalling over 4000 euros to the state. The prosecutor, supported […]

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June 6, 2012 · Blogs

Creating a safer Internet for children – some solid progress

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein sicheres Internet für Kinder – erste Fortschritte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Ein_sicheres_Internet_fuer_Kinder_erste_Fortschritte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] The European Commission hosted a meeting of the “CEO Coalition” on Friday of last week. This is a project where Commissioner Kroes invited industry to produce measures to make the Internet a safer place for children. The dangers […]

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September 9, 2009

European Commission hearing on Google Books Settlement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Anhörung der Europäische Kommission über die Google Books-Einigung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1509] The EU Google Books hearing highlighted some very serious concerns with the settlement, but mainly from a rights holder point of view. The hearing itself addressed two quite distinct sets of issues; firstly concerns of EU rights holders […]

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April 5, 2017 · Blogs

Social media companies launch upload filter to combat “terrorism and extremism”

A database set up jointly by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube aims to identify “terrorist and radicalising” content automatically and to remove it from these platforms.

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June 6, 2012

A new EC proposal on e-identities and e-signatures

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neuer Vorschlag zur elektronischen Identifizierung und E-Signaturen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Neuer_Vorschlag_zur_elektronischen_Identifizierung_und_E-Signaturen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] On 4 June 2012, the European Commission published a new draft regulation on e-signatures and e-identities that is meant to extend the existing e-Signatures Directive to include new services such as e-stamping or e-seals that would guarantee the origin […]

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April 5, 2017 · Blogs

UK government attacks encryption … again

In the aftermath of the attack in London in March 2017, the UK government has, again, indicated that it wants to force companies to weaken encryption. The government wants to be able to access messages sent via services that use end-to-end encryption. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd stated on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show that it […]

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