May 8, 2017 · Blogs

Killing parody, killing memes, killing the internet?

We love the internet because it creates fantastic opportunities to express ourselves and to innovate. But do we love it enough to pass it on to future generations? Nearly 20 years ago, politicians made decisions that gave us the internet we have today. Visionary policy-makers decided not to punish internet companies for the actions of […]

Read more

 

July 11, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Danish High Court ruling on data retention use and file sharing cases

On 7 May 2018, the Eastern High Court in Denmark delivered a ruling that internet service providers (ISPs) are not required to disclose subscriber information in file sharing cases.

Read more

 

October 8, 2003

EU proposal on biometrics in visa and passports

The European Commission is proposing to integrate biometric identifiers into visas and residence permits for third country nationals. Later this year proposals will follow for biometrics in passports of EU citizens, likely to be similar to the visa proposal. The Commission and member states want to store two types of biometric data into a contactless […]

Read more

August 29, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Women on Waves: how internet companies police our speech

Increasingly, internet companies decide which content we're allowed to publish and receive.

Read more

 

September 26, 2007

Pole faces prison for "Google bombing" targetted to the Polish President

A Polish computer programmer, Marek W, might go to prison for 3 years for having created a program that linked Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s website to the word “kutas” meaning penis in Polish vulgar language. Marek, charged for insulting the President, admitted he had created a so-called “Google bomb” in order to check out his […]

Read more

October 10, 2007

French ISPs agree to spy on Internet users to stop online piracy

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Association of the French ISPs (AFA) agreed to propose concrete solutions to stop illegal downloading, following the discussion on 3 October 2007 with the Commission fighting Internet piracy led by Denis Olivennes. The solutions included the introduction of a system to detect the Internet users that […]

Read more

March 12, 2012 · Blogs

World Day Against Cyber-Censorship

Lire cet article en français Support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all is the message of this year’s world day against cyber-censorship. For the fourth time, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has published a report listing the worst violators of online free speech worldwide. In the following, we want to focus on […]

Read more

December 17, 2014 · Blogs

Edward Snowden honoured during Dutch Big Brother Awards ceremony

On 16 December 2014, EDRi-member Bits of Freedom organised the tenth Dutch Big Brother Awards. The Minister of Security and Justice, Ivo Opstelten, won the (un)popular vote for, among other things, his plans to keep data retention. It is the third time he has won the prize. Professional experts awarded Dutch schools an award for […]

Read more

 

January 14, 2015 · Blogs

Legal Service Opinion on CJEU Data Retention ruling

The European Parliament (EP) legal services last week presented an opinion on the Court of Justice of the EU’s (CJEU) ruling on the Data Retention Directive (DRD) and its implications. The opinion, after restating the principles that are essential to permit any interference on fundamental rights (proportionality, justification and necessity), answered specific questions raised by […]

Read more

 

February 10, 2016 · Blogs

MTE v. Hungary: the ECtHR rules again on intermediary liability

On 2 February 2016, the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) came back in judging on the matter of intermediary liability. In ‘MTE and Index v. Hungary’, the ECtHR held that freedom of expression as recognised in Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights was violated. The court had […]

Read more

 

February 24, 2016 · Blogs

2015 Internet Report on Turkey released

The Alternative Informatics Association released its yearly report about the Internet in Turkey. Entitled “State of the Art Report of the Internet in Turkey – 2015,” the report is dedicated to the memory of Özgür Uçkan, who passed away in 2015. He was a founding member of the AIA and a devoted defender of rights […]

Read more

 

Home

Read more