August 27, 2008

Italian justice wants to "seize" a foreign website

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an investigation started by the Bergamo Prosecutors, an Order of the Justice for preliminary investigation of the Court of Bergamo was issued on 1 August 2008, asking for the “seizure” of the PirateBay website, hosted outside Italy, for displaying a collection of links to allegedly illegal […]

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February 25, 2009

European Commission disbanded data protection experts group

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission löst Expertengruppe für Datenschutz auf | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1307] Macedonian: [Европската комисија расформира група за заштита на | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1386/4/lang,mk/] The European Commission has decided to dismantle a group of experts that needed to review the European Data Protection Directive. The group was formed after a tendering process and […]

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August 30, 2006

Cloning an electronic passport

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a public demonstration at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on 3 August 2006, Lukas Grunwald’s, CTO of German security consultancy DN-Systems Enterprise Internet Solutions, made a demonstration on how electronic passports could be cloned. The industry that produces the passports has denied the […]

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January 30, 2013 · Blogs

German government intends to use FinFisher Spyware

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutschland will FinFisher Spyware einsetzen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.2_Deutschland_will_FinFisher_Spyware_einsetzen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130207] A classified document of the German Ministry of Interior, revealed by netzpolitik.org, shows that the German Federal Police office has purchased the commercial Spyware toolkit FinFisher of Eleman/Gamma Group, for telecommunication surveillance. Commercial software meant to survey telecommunications has been used […]

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September 27, 2006

Belgium says no to Google News

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belgium newspaper group Copiepress sued Google News, considering they should have asked its permission and agreed financial terms when publishing material from their Belgium newspapers. Google lost in the first instance, but also the appeal against the ruling given on 5 September 2006. Facing a 1 […]

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November 18, 2015 · Blogs

Founder of a Portuguese leak platform subject to gagging order

Rui Cruz is 28 years old and is the founder of Tugaleaks, a Portuguese Wikileaks-inspired website. He has been working on the website on his free time since December 2010, gathering exclusive articles about the security flaws of government and private company websites, publishing public-but-undisclosed documents, and making available data on security information about Portugal, […]

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March 23, 2011 · Blogs

French ISPs explain why blocking is wrong

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische ISPs erklären was an Netzsperren falsch ist | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.6_Frankreich_ISPs_erklaeren_was_an_Netzsperren_falsch_ist] The French ISPs are being brought to court by ARJEL (the French online gambling regulation authority) in its attempt to obtain the blocking of access to the foreign online betting site 5Dimes. On 17 March 2011, the court […]

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October 22, 2008

Protests in France against the Edvige file on St. Edwige day

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As previously announced in EDRi-gram, St. Edwige day in France was a day of protests against the file project called Edvige, a file that would gather information on any person, including minors, considered by the police as a “suspect” capable of disrupting the public order. On 16 […]

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October 10, 2007

European Parliament resolution on a European digital library

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament (EP) adopted on 27 September 2007 a resolution that endorses the 2005 European Commission’s Communication i2010: Digital Libraries supporting the digital libraries initiative that aims at making European information resources easier and more interesting to use in an online environment The Commission’s “2010 Digital […]

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November 22, 2006

Draft Audiovisual Directive limited to the TV-like services on the web

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the EU’s Council of Ministers meeting on 14 November a new version of the Audiovisual Media Services directive has been agreed, that limits the new regulation regarding video on the Internet only to the TV-like services (linear services). The video clips on the Internet will not […]

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March 14, 2012

German Constitutional Court rules on access to personal data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Bundesverfassungsgerichtshof entscheidet über Zugriff auf personenbezogene Daten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.5_Deutscher_Bundesverfassungsgerichtshof_entscheidet_ueber_Zugriff_auf_personenbezogene_Daten] According to the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) on 24 February 2012, the law enforcement authorities must no longer request personal data unless justified by special conditions. The court found that certain provisions in the […]

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May 4, 2011 · Blogs

Don't use "crispy" on the Turkish Internet!

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Sag niemals “knusprig” im türkischen Internet! | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Sag_niemals_knusprig_im_tuerkischen_Internet] The Turkish Telecommunication Communication Presidency (TIB) has reached an unprecedented level of censorship by recently banning 138 words and terms from the Internet, many of which being simple, every-day words. On 28 April 2011, TIB sent a notification to all […]

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