August 25, 2010

ENDitorial: Leaked draft of the new Czech Copyright Act

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Entwurf zum neuen CR-Urheberrechtsgesetz durchgesickert | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2131] A leaked draft of the new Czech Copyright Act was obtained by Pirate News at the beginning of August 2010, after the Ministry of Culture has initially declined the request of Czech Pirate Party to have access to the document […]

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September 8, 2010

INDECT – privacy ethics in a secret project

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ INDECT – Datenschutzethik eines Geheimprojekts | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2165] A new document on ethical issues published by the INDECT European research project on public surveillance has once more attracted the scrutiny of the media. Previous allegations of secrecy were followed by an attempt to strengthen the project’s Ethics Board. […]

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March 26, 2014 · Blogs

UK privacy groups file complaint on medical data in Google Cloud

UK privacy groups Big Brother Watch, medConfidential and the EDRi member  Foundation for Information Policy Research have filed a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s data protection authority. The complaint follows revelations that PA Consulting Group, a technology and innovation consultancy, uploaded a large quantity of data to Google’s cloud-based Big Data service […]

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August 1, 2012

Stravos Lambrinidis: EU First Special Representative for Human Rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Stavros Lambrinidis: Erster EU-Sonderbeauftragter für Menschenrechte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.15_Stavros_Lambrinidis_Erster_EU-Sonderbeauftragter_fuer_Menschenrechte?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20120801] On 25 July 2012, on a proposal by Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Council of the European Union appointed Mr Stravos Lambridinis, former MEP, as EU Special Representative for Human Rights. This appointment […]

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April 9, 2008

EDRi joins European NGOs in asking ECJ to annul data retention directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European Digital Rights (EDRi) has joined other 42 civil liberties NGOs and professional associations in signing the amicus curiae brief initiated by German NGO Working Group on Data Retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung). The action is destined to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in relation to the action […]

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August 28, 2013 · Blogs

New Russian copyright law raises freedom of expression concerns

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ Russland: Neues Copyright-Gesetz lässt Bedenken bezüglich Redefreiheit aufkommen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.16_Russland_Neues_Copyright-Gesetz_laesst_Bedenken_bezueglich_Redefreiheit_aufkommen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130828 ] New legislation on online copyright, amending several legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the protection of intellectual property rights in information and telecommunication networks, came into force on 1 August 2013. For the time being, […]

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May 24, 2006

German Constitutional Court has outlawed preventive data screening

On 22 May the German Constitutional Court has declared illegal under the German Constitution the practice of screening data across several private and public databases in order to find potential terrorists (“sleepers”). Several federal states will now have to change their police laws. The decision does not make data screening (“Rasterfahndung”, literally: “grid investigation”, usual […]

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May 21, 2008

Updates on Visa Information System Regulation

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) An updated version of the Regulation on the Visa Information System (VIS) published by Statewatch reveals that only random checks might be carried out, if there are too many people waiting. As already presented in EDRi-gram, the legislative package on the Visa Information System that included the […]

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June 7, 2006

Journalistic protection for online journalists and bloggers

The Californian appeal court decided on 26 May that online journalists and bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as all other journalists. The case was brought to court by Apple Computer demanding from a number of news website operators to reveal the source of confidential information posted about some of its products. […]

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January 14, 2009

DHS Report shows lack of compliance with the EU-US PNR agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Privacy Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released in the second part of December 2008 a report regarding the Passenger Name Record (PNR) information from the EU-US flights. Even though the official conclusion of the authors is that DHS handling of PNR data […]

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June 6, 2007

Germany is preparing the G8 meeting by searching NGOs servers

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German government decided to prepare the G8 meeting that will take place during 6-8 June in Heiligendamm, a Baltic seaside resort, by increasing the number of searches and seizures to NGOs and anti-globalization movements offices and servers. During the entire month of May the Federal Prosecutor […]

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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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