March 11, 2014 · Blogs

WePromise.eu: Digital Rights campaign unites Europe and unites political opponents

PRESS RELEASE – Brussels, March 11th Support is flooding in from voters and from election candidates for the WePromise.eu campaign. The premise is simple – voters sign a pledge to vote in the European Parliament elections, and to vote for a candidate that has signed the charter of ten digital rights principles. Hundreds of voters […]

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March 12, 2008

Google completes the DoubleClick deal after EC clears the acquisition

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) announced on 11 March 2008 that it has cleared the Google-DoubleClick deal after its investigation made according with the EU Merger Regulation. The decision of the EC considered that “found that Google and DoubleClick were not exerting major competitive constraints on each other’s […]

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November 20, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

A privately managed public space?

Our “public spaces” online where we meet each other, organise, or speak about social issues, are often controlled and dominated by private companies (platforms like Facebook and YouTube). Pushing platforms to decide which opinions we are allowed to express and which not is not going to solve major problems in our society. The EU rules […]

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March 28, 2007

Stakeholder group to advise on EU RFID strategy

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission presented its new proposal for the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags strategy for Europe after one year of consultations. The strategy will be drafted in cooperation with a Stakeholder Group to be created and Article 29 Working Party. An EU study had been initiated […]

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March 29, 2006

Creative Commons license upheld in Dutch and Spanish courts

Both in The Netherlands and in Spain the Creative Commons license was judged in court. In both cases the validity of this alternative copyright license was upheld. In the Netherlands, the first court case about the validity of the Creative Commons license produced clear victory for the user of the license. On 9 March 2006 […]

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August 27, 2003

Danish experiment with online voting

15,000 Danish voters in the council of Ishoj, near Copenhagen, are invited to experiment with internet voting during the next elections for the European Parliament, in June 2004. According to the spokesperson from the European Parliament, Soren Sondergaard, the Danes aim at a high voter participation, especially among the young. ‘At the same time it […]

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December 4, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Facial recognition and fundamental rights 101

This is the first post in a series about the fundamental rights impacts of facial recognition. Private companies and governments worldwide are already experimenting with facial recognition technology. Individuals, lawmakers, developers - and everyone in between - should be aware of the rise of facial recognition, and the risks it poses to rights to privacy, freedom, democracy and non-discrimination.

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April 22, 2015 · Blogs

Italy: Anti-terrorism decree to strengthen government surveillance

On 15 April 2015, the Italian Senate adopted a Government decree concerning, among other issues, “urgent measures to combat terrorism” (DDL 2893/R), as amended by the Parliament on its first reading on 31 March. Before the vote in the Parliament, the government decided to exclude from the voting list the most controversial amendment on preventive […]

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July 18, 2012

ENDitorial: EP and EDPS hit back against lawless “child protection” measures

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: „Kinderschutz“-Maßnahmen ohne gesetzliche Grundlage – EP und EDSB schlagen zurück | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] In the EDRi-gram 10.12, we reported on projects of the European Commission to coerce industry into the introduction of “voluntary” upload filters. Following the Scarlet/Sabam case in the European Court of Justice, such filtering would […]

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September 25, 2003

First ruling under new UK anti-spam legislation

On 11 December 2003 new anti-spam legislation in the UK will come into force, implementing the European Directive on privacy in the telecommunications sector (2002/58/EC). In the UK, spammers risk a fine of 7.196 EUR (5.000 GBP) from a magistrates court or even an unlimited penalty from a jury. Though a criminal offence, spammers in […]

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March 26, 2008

UK beat police will have access to national mugshot database

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 18 March 2008, Peter Neyroud, the chief executive of the UK National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA), told the Commons Home Affairs Committee, during the final evidence session of a year-long inquiry on the surveillance society, that the police was developing a national database of mugshots to […]

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March 26, 2008

European Commission: pro active in using open source software

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission announced it would increase its own use of open source software for ICT projects: “For all new development, where deployment and usage is foreseen by parties outside of the Commission Infrastructure, Open Source Software will be the preferred development and deployment platform.” Valerie Rampie, […]

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