November 3, 2010

Belgian Court upholds Creative Commons licence

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgischer Gerichtshof bestätigt Creative Commons Lizenz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2329] A local court in Nivelles, Belgium upheld in a case decided 26 October 2010 on the validity of the Creative Commons licence in a copyright infringement case when a music group published its music under CC BY-NC-SA. In this case […]

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May 7, 2008

Important personal data lost by the Bank of Ireland

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The personal data of about 10 000 customers of the Bank of Ireland (BOI) are now in the possession of thieves as four laptops with the unencrypted data were stolen from the bank between June and October 2007. The four stolen laptops had been used by staff […]

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May 7, 2008

Radio Free Europe's websites in Belarus under attack

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Several Radio Free Europe websites were under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the past week. The attacks started on 26 April 2008, the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, primary targeted at the Belarus Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) service which was offering […]

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October 10, 2012

Macedonian draft law may introduce online censorship

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mazedonien: Neues Gesetz könnte zu Internetzensur führen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Mazedonien_Neues_Gesetz_koennte_zu_Internetzensur_fuehren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] A draft law on civil liability for insult and defamation related to communication over the Internet, which has passed the first reading in the Macedonian Parliament, may lead to strong censorship of the Internet. According to the draft law, […]

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November 2, 2011

Finnish ISP ordered to block The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnischer Provider soll “The Pirate Bay” sperren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Finnischer_Provider_soll_The_Pirate_Bay_sperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] Hot on the heels of a Belgian court decision obligating two ISPs to block the Pirate Bay, the Helsinki District Court ruled on 26 October 2011 that the large Finnish ISP Elisa must block access to The Pirate Bay […]

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May 21, 2014 · Blogs

Finnish Parliament argued over the copyright initiative

On 13 May, the Education and Culture Committee of the Finnish Parliament discussed the citizens’ initiative on an update to the copyright legislation. The main goal of the initiative “Common Sense in Copyright” is to correct the exaggerated interpretations of the current copyright laws, especially regarding network monitoring and compensation. This includes reforming the judicial […]

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June 4, 2008

ICO worried about a UK Government-owned traffic data database

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The new Communications Data Bill proposed by the Home Office has met the opposition of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which has shown concerns related to the proposals of building one Government-owned database with records of phone calls, email and Internet use in the UK. In ICO’s […]

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June 20, 2007

Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy International (PI) has undertaken a study that reveals the privacy threats and rank the positions in this matter of key players on the Internet services market. The objective of the research is not only to point fingers but also to find out trends and emergent issues […]

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January 13, 2010

Spain: NGO fined by the Supreme Court for hosting offensive contents

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanien: Oberster Gerichtshof verurteilt NGO wegen des Hostens offensiver Inhalte zu einer Geldstrafe | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1651] At the end of December 2009, the Spanish Supreme Court confirmed its ruling in making Asociación de Internautas (Internet Users Association – AI) pay a 18 000 Euro fine to SGAE (the General […]

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November 30, 2011

Turkey launches Internet filtering scheme

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Türkei führt Internetfilter ein | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Tuerkei_fuehrt_Internetfilter_ein?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] Turkish Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) launched the Internet safety scheme on 22 November 2011, as planned, but on a voluntary basis, following the fierce criticism and opposition to the original plans to introduce a mandatory filtering system. Internet users may […]

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November 21, 2012

Portuguese blog taken down by Google for unknown reasons

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google schaltet aus unerklärlichen Gründen portugiesischen Blog ab | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Google_schaltet_aus_unerklaerlichen_Gruenden_portugiesischen_Blog_ab?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 14 November 2012, the blog of the group Precários Inflexíveis, whose purpose is to expose the working conditions of freelance workers without permanent contracts, was deleted by Google, during the day of the general strike in the […]

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July 16, 2008

Copiepresse attacks EC for copyright infringement, but gets dismissed

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belgium newspaper Association Copiepresse has initiated a legal complaint against the European Commission (EC) arguing that it infringes its copyright through the NewsBrief and NewsExplorer aggregation services. Copiepresse became famous for its copyright suit against Google and other search engines claiming copyright infringement over the aggregation […]

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