June 9, 2012

Numbers at ACTA demonstrations exceed expectations

After all of the announcements of ACTA’s death, one would wonder why anybody would have felt the need to turn up to the anti-ACTA demonstrations today. In April, the European Parliamentarian in charge of the ACTA dossier said that ACTA was dead.[1] In May, the European Commissioner for the Information Society, Neelie Kroes, said that […]

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March 11, 2015 · Blogs

Dutch civil rights group highlights dangers of ISDS in trade deals

On 9 March 2015, EDRi-member Vrijschrift sent a letter to the Dutch Parliament, highlighting the dangers of investor-state dispute settlement clauses (ISDS) in the trade agreements with Canada (CETA) and Singapore (EUSFTA) that the European Union is currently negotiating. On 25 March, EU Ministers of Trade will meet informally to discuss trade agreements, and in […]

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February 14, 2007

Towards a committee for French on-line services regulation ?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) French Internet regulation history seems to repeat itself, as shows a recently unveiled administrative decree project, which aims at creating a “National Commission for the deontology of on-line public communication services”. The Commission would be in charge of elaborating “deontological recommendations” towards professional on- line communication services, […]

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February 13, 2008

PirateBay – blocked in Denmark

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following a complaint by IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), a Danish bailiff court issued on 4 February 2008 an injunction ordering Tele2, one of the major ISPs in Denmark, to block the access to the PirateBay domains. IFPI asked the court for this injunction because […]

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April 19, 2017 · Blogs

Dangerous myths peddled about data subject access rights

Now that the date on which the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable is rapidly approaching, the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) are in the process of clarifying what their shared positions will be on various topics, including profiling. This is done through stakeholder consultation meetings.

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February 12, 2014 · Blogs

Italian Supreme Court: Google’s Youtube is just a hosting provider

(title corrected from the newsletter version when the title was wrongfuly posted as “Italian Supreme Court: search engines are just hosting providers”) The Italian Supreme Court (Court of Cassation) finally comes to put an end to a long-term case brought in 2008 by Vividown association against three Google executives considered responsible for a post uploaded […]

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February 12, 2014 · Blogs

Hacktivists targeted by British spies

According to documents released by Snowden on NSA activities, a secret British division of GCHQ named Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), meant to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies, was targeting the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec. The documents reveal that JTRIG launched a “denial of service” (DDOS) attack (dubbed Rolling Thinder) and other […]

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February 13, 2008

Europe spams more than the US

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) According to security vendor Symantec, a shift has taken place in the weight of the spam networks, the European ones having created more unsolicited e-mail than those in the US lately. Thus, approximately 44 per cent of all spam messages are originated from Europe as compared to […]

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May 3, 2017 · Blogs

Hakuna Metadata – Let’s have some fun with Sid’s browsing history!

But I am not interesting enough for someone to bother to look into my browsing history. The most common argument for people not to be more wary of the threats to their online privacy is that, simply, no one cares. Or at least not enough. But still, don’t we all like to delete our browsing […]

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February 28, 2007

Increased Europol powers need increased data protection policies

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) considers that the changes on the legal basis of Europe’s police (Europol) proposed by the European Parliament meant to increase its powers have to be accompanied by proper data protection rules. The European Parliament has proposed changes that would […]

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July 27, 2011

EU countries to explain lack of implementation of the Telecoms Package

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Staaten müssen sich für bisherige Nicht-Umsetzung der EU-Telekommunikationsvorschriften rechtfertigen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_EU-Staaten_muessen_sich_fuer_Nicht-Umsetzung_der_EU-Telekommunikationsvorschriften_rechtfertigen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice requesting information from 20 EU countries regarding the reasons why they have not yet fully implemented the EU Telecoms Package. The EU member states were supposed to produce […]

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November 6, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Danish data retention: Back to normal after major crisis

The Danish police and the Ministry of Justice consider access to electronic communications data to be a crucial tool for investigation and prosecution of criminal offences. Legal requirements for blanket data retention, which originally transposed the EU Data Retention Directive, are still in place in Denmark, despite the judgments from the Court of Justice of […]

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