January 27, 2010

New round of negotiations on ACTA: EU position

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue ACTA-Verhandlungsrunde: Die Haltung der EU | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1674] A new round of negotiations on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is taking place from 26 to 29 January 2010 in Guadalajara, Mexico. As announced by some countries participating in the event the main topics of the new negotiations are: civil […]

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September 22, 2010

FSFE insists on promoting free PDF readers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [FSFE fordert weiterhin die Verbreitung freier PDF Reader | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2204] The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) calls on all Europeans to seek out advertisements for proprietary PDF readers on their government’s websites, and report them. In addition, FSFE has prepared a petition demanding an end to such advertising […]

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October 7, 2009

Controversial draft Framework Decision on Child Sexual Exploitation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Umstrittener Entwurf zum Rahmenbeschluss gegen die sexuelle Ausbeutung von Kindern | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1535] The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament held its first exchange of views on the controversial Proposal for a Framework Decision on combatting the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. The draft […]

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May 18, 2011

ENDitorial: RFID PIA: Check against delivery

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: RFID PIA – Auf die Umsetzung kommt es an | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_ENDitorial_RFID_PIA_Auf_die_Umsetzung_kommt_es_an] In the context of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Council, the European Commission and the Hungarian Innovation Office jointly organised the IoT 2011 conference on the Internet of Things, earlier this week. One of the […]

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May 23, 2012

European Parliament rejects IPR as an internal security risk

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP lehnt Durchsetzung von Urheberrechten im Rahmen der EU-Sicherheitstrategie ab | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_EP_lehnt_Durchsetzung_von_Urheberrechten_im_Rahmen_der_EU-Sicherheitstrategie_ab?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] With a crushing majority of 503 in favour to 55 against and 56 abstentions, the European Parliament yesterday rejected the inclusion of the protection of intellectual property rights as a key element in the protection of […]

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May 22, 2013 · Blogs

ENDitorial: European Privacy Association – good, bad or simply misunderstood?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Die European Privacy Association – gut, böse oder einfach nur falsch verstanden? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_ENDitorial_Die_European_Privacy_Association?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] The European Privacy Association, after being caught out for failing to respect the rules of the European Transparency Register, has issued a defence of its actions. An article published by IDG News Service […]

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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Bad analogies and the threat to “cybersecurity”

In policy discussions about the online world a general pattern repeats: The online sphere is differentiated from its offline equivalent by adding the prefix “cyber”, giving it both immediacy and generating a fear of the unknown “cyberworld”. Then, in order to explain “cyberspace”, practitioners draw analogies between cyber and non-cyber, often being blissfully unaware of, […]

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November 17, 2010

Panoptykon looks for the rationale behind the blanket data retention

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Panoptykon auf der Suche nach dem Sinn der anlasslosen Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2356] On 9 and 10 November 2010 the representatives of the EDRi-member Panoptykon Foundation met with the representatives of the European Commission in order to discuss the evaluation of the Data Retention Directive (DRD) and the rationale […]

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March 14, 2012 · Blogs

Google and Facebook blocked by the Danish child pornography filter

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Dänischer Kinderpornographiefilter sperrt Google und Facebook | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.5_Daenischer_Kinderpornographiefilter_sperrt_Google_und_Facebook] In the morning of 1 March 2012, about 8000 websites, including Google and Facebook, were blocked by the Danish child pornography (CP) filter. When the customers of the affected ISPs, Siminn Denmark and Tele Greenland, made Google searches or accessed […]

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September 26, 2012

ENDitorial: Clean IT is just a symptom of the pinata politics of privatised online enforcement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Clean IT ist bloß ein Symptom für die blindwütige Politik der privaten Rechtsdurchsetzung im Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_ENDitorial_CleanIT_ist_bloss_ein_Symptom_fuer_die_irrefuehrende_Politik_der_privaten_Rechtsdurchsetzung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120927] There has been a lot of attention to the “Clean IT” project since EDRi published a leaked draft document last week, on 21 September 2012. Since then, the project organisers have […]

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April 22, 2009

The Pirate Bay founders considered guilty by the first Swedish court

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Die Gründer von Pirate Bay vom Ersten Schwedischen Gerichtshof für schuldig befunden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1371] Macedonian: [Шведскиот суд ги прогласи за виновни… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1428/4/lang,mk/] The verdict of the Swedish court in The Pirate Bay (TBP) trial was given on 17 April 2009 with the four defendants, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid […]

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November 3, 2010

Google admits it was gathering passwords and emails via StreetView

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google gesteht Sammlung von Passwörtern und E-Mails via StreetView ein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2323] Google faces further investigation in the UK and Italy, after it has publicly admitted in a blog post on 22 October 2010 that its StreetView service has gathered more data than intended, “in some instances entire […]

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