December 15, 2009 · Blogs

Call for Nominations opened

AEDH (European Association for the Defence of Human rights) and EDRI (European Digital Rights) launch the first edition of the European Civil Society Data Protection Award (ECSDPA). The prize aims at rewarding positive initiatives contributing to the visibility and effectiveness of right to privacy and to the protection of personal data in Europe. The ECSDPA […]

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December 15, 2009 · Blogs

L’Appel a nominations est ouvert

L’AEDH (Association Européenne pour la defense des Droits de l’Homme) et EDRI (European Digital Rights) lancent la première édition du Prix européen de la société civile pour la protection des données personnelles (ECSDPA – European Civil Society Data Protection Award). Le prix vise à récompenser des initiatives positives contribuant à la visibilité et à l’effectivité […]

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December 18, 2003

PNR: EU Commission negotiates breach of law

On 16 December the European Commission presented the long-awaited outcome of its negotiations with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the transfer of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to the U.S. As expected, the outcome is a foul compromise, creating a permanent breach of law. According to European data protection principles, personal data can […]

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October 24, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi responds to umteenth public Net Neutrality consultation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Konsultation: EDRi nimmt zum x-ten Mal zur Netzneutralität Stellung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_EU-Konsultation_EDRi_nimmt_zum_x-ten_Mal_zur_Netzneutralitaet_Stellung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] This might sound like a running gag, but on 15 October 2012 EDRi submitted its umteenth response to the European Commission’s umteenth consultation on net neutrality, traffic management, transparency and switching. As explained in the previous EDRi-gram, […]

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June 4, 2014 · Blogs

Denmark: Data retention is here to stay despite the CJEU ruling

Following the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling on 8 April 2014, which declared the data retention directive 2006/24/EC invalid, the Danish parliament asked the government about the implications for the Danish data retention law. On 2 June 2014, the government presented its response in a 30-page legal analysis and at a […]

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July 5, 2006

Private hotlines questioned at EC Safer Internet Forum

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With its newly adopted Communication on a ‘comprehensive EU strategy to promote and safeguard the rights of the child’, the Commission intends to pursue its global action on children’s rights. One may however wonder whether the strategy for fighting child porn on the Internet, which mostly relies […]

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July 2, 2008

ePrivacy Directive debated in the EP's Civil Liberties Committee

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 June 2008, the European Parliament’s Standing Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs asked for measures to correct the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (called ePrivacy Directive). “We have introduced a few points directed towards better consumer […]

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July 18, 2007

European Parliament adopts harsh resolution on the new PNR agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 10 July 2007 the members of the European Parliament (EP) adopted with an overwhelming majority, close to 90%, a Resolution that heavily criticizes the new PNR agreement struck by the European Commission with the US Department for Homeland Security (DHS), considering it “substantively flawed”, in particular […]

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January 27, 2010

EP Culture Committee – Draft Internet Governance Opinion published

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kulturausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments – Gutachtenentwurf zu Internet Governance veröffentlicht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1681] The European Parliament (EP) has started its deliberations on a non-binding report on “Internet governance, the next steps”, following the Commission’s Communication on this topic in 2009. The draft Opinion of the European Parliament’s Culture Committee […]

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January 18, 2012

Commission confirms illegality of Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommission bestätigt Widerrechtlichkeit der Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Kommission_bestaetigt_Widerrechtlichkeit_der_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] The EDRi-member Quintessenz – Austria has published a leak of an internal paper from the Commission intended to inform DAPIX, the Council’s working party on information exchange and data protection, of the results of the Commission’s consultation in April 2011 on […]

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October 10, 2007

EDRI Statement and Call for Action on new CoE Rec. failing to uphold FoE

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Today EDRI issued a statement to express its serious concerns over a new Council of Europe Recommendation on ‘promoting freedom of expression and information in the new information and communications environment’. According to EDRI, the newly adopted instrument promotes opaque “self-regulation” and other soft law instruments driven […]

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October 20, 2005

International jurists on human rights and (counter-)terrorism

Today the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has launched a new 18 month panel on terrorism, counter-terrorism and human rights. “The legal community worldwide must now take a leadership role in articulating how the rule of law can be respected in addressing terrorism in its many complex global and local forms.” The ICJ has formulated […]

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