March 29, 2006

Creative Commons license upheld in Dutch and Spanish courts

Both in The Netherlands and in Spain the Creative Commons license was judged in court. In both cases the validity of this alternative copyright license was upheld. In the Netherlands, the first court case about the validity of the Creative Commons license produced clear victory for the user of the license. On 9 March 2006 […]

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June 3, 2015 · Blogs

Data retention: German government tries again

Even before the parliamentary summer recess starting on 4 July, the German government wants to push a national law on data retention through the German Bundestag. After the Ministry of Justice presented so-called guidelines in mid-April, and a complete draft law only a month later, the Parliament is now supposed to debate and pass this […]

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September 21, 2012 · Blogs

Clean IT – Leak shows plans for large-scale, undemocratic surveillance of all communications

This article is also available in German: [CleanIT – Pläne zur Überwachung des Internets im großen Stil] A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims, as well as the most fundamental legal rules that underpin European democracy and the […]

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July 26, 2017 · Blogs

PNR: EU Court rules that draft EU/Canada air passenger data deal is unacceptable

Today, on 26 July 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that the EU/Canada deal on collection of air travellers’ data and sharing it breaches European law. This is the third time that the European Court has ruled against arrangements for mandatory storage of personal data. This is good news for […]

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July 1, 2015 · Blogs

WiFi tracking and the ePrivacy Directive in Denmark

Citizens are increasingly being monitored and tracked by public authorities and commercial interests. Many carry digital devices which, by design, emit a unique identifier, such as the WiFi Media Access Control (MAC) address of a smartphone. Even though the MAC address does not directly reveal the identity of a person, the fact that it is […]

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August 12, 2015 · Blogs

Internet censorship redux – under the guise of regulating gambling

On 12 June 2015 a law came into effect requiring the providers of networks and electronic communication services in Romania to block access to gambling sites as well as sites advertising gambling activities that are unauthorised in the country. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will now be obliged to implement a website blocking system and use […]

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July 2, 2014 · Blogs

Supreme Court of the US on cell phone searches: get a warrant

In the court case Riley vs California, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) affirmed on 25 June what many digital rights activists have been telling a long time: Our mobile phones, especially smartphones, have become such an extension of ourselves that warrantless searches of them violate fundamental rights. Not only that, SCOTUS was […]

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July 18, 2007

French ruling against video-sharing platform DailyMotion

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 13 July 2007, a French court has ruled against the French company DailyMotion, second world leader of video-sharing platforms after YouTube, in a counterfeit case. The legal action was initiated by the director, the producer, and the distributor of a movie put on-line by a user […]

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December 14, 2011 · Blogs

A fair Internet for all?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein gerechtes Internet für alle? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Ein_gerechtes_Internet_fuer_alle?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] On 1 December 2011, the European Parliament’s European People’s Party (EPP) group presented their strategy paper “A fair Internet for all – Strengthening Our Citizens’ Rights and Securing a Fair Business Environment in the Internet”. In this webstreamed hearing, the MEPs […]

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December 16, 2015 · Blogs

EU encourages cooperation between intelligence agencies

In the wake of the Paris attacks on 13 November 2015, the planning and implementation of measures taken in the name of fighting terrorism have been geared up on the EU level. After the publication of the Council of Europe report on foreign fighters, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove stated on 7 December 2015 […]

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February 29, 2012

European data protection authorities: Google violates privacy rules

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WP 29: Google verstößt gegen den Datenschutz| https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Google_verstoesst_gegen_den_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] A few days in advance of Google’s revision of its privacy policies, European data protection authorities (DPAs) find that Google’s new privacy policy would infringe European data protection rules. The lead DPA, the French CNIL, points out that the policy […]

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April 24, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Will Serbia adjust its data protection framework to GDPR?

After a process that took more than five years, the National Assembly of Serbia finally adopted a new Law on Personal Data Protection in November 2018. The law closely follows EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), almost to the point of literal translation into Serbian of some parts of the text. That was expected, due […]

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