February 9, 2011

France: Increased powers for Hadopi authority

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: Hadopi erhält weitere Befugnisse | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_Hadopi_erhaelt_weitere_Befugnisse] The Hadopi law continues to develop as the French Government pushes last minute amendments to be passed by the Parliament. Thus, the French National Assembly adopted on 1 February 2011, late at night, an amendment filed at the last moment by […]

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September 13, 2006

European Parliament pressures EC in the EU-US PNR agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A debate took place in the European Parliament (EP) on 7 September regarding the negotiation of a new interim agreement between EU and US on the issue of passenger name record (PNR) sharing. The very criticized agreement adopted in 2004 on EU-US personal data sharing was annulled […]

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October 26, 2016 · Blogs

#3 Freedom to make mistakes: How to defend yourself from abuses

Lee este artículo en español This is the third blogpost of our series dedicated to privacy, security and freedoms. In the next weeks, we will explain how your freedoms are under threat, and what you can do to fight back. Public availability of sensitive information: What is that and how it works? In the online […]

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July 29, 2009

EC hearing on Google book deal

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EC-Anhörung zu Googles Buch-Deal | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1481] The European Commission (EC) will hold a hearing on 7 September 2009 to evaluate Google’s proposed deal with U.S. publishers and authors granting Google the right to digitize and publish out of print copyrighted books and its possible impact upon copyright issues. […]

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December 2, 2009

Civil liberties groups ask EU to repeal data retention directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bürgerrechtsgruppen fordern die Widerrufung der Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung von der EU| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1606] Civil liberties groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the German Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat) are calling on the European Union to repeal the 2006 directive on the data retention of electronic communications. In […]

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March 3, 2011 · Blogs

Hug your MEP

The European Parliament needs support in negotiations on web blocking On 14 February, the Civil Liberties Committee adopted a text on Internet blocking. While not perfect, this text rejected populism and focussed squarely on child protection and a harmonised approach to respect for fundamental rights. The Committee’s approach is now being opposed by almost all […]

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October 10, 2007

EDRI Campaign on CoE Recommendation Failing to Uphold Freedom of Expression

On October 10, 2007, 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’. As other related instruments are currently in preparation by the CoE, EDRI calls for NGOs and groups from all over the […]

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April 12, 2007

Bulgarian Police ordered ISPs to block US-based torrent tracker

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16 March 2007 the Bulgarian special forces for combating organized crime ordered the major ISPs to filter the access to and from the web site arenabg.com, a torrent tracker hosted in the US, claiming that it was the source of copyright infringement activities. Only three big […]

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September 26, 2012

ENDitorial: Clean IT is just a symptom of the pinata politics of privatised online enforcement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Clean IT ist bloß ein Symptom für die blindwütige Politik der privaten Rechtsdurchsetzung im Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_ENDitorial_CleanIT_ist_bloss_ein_Symptom_fuer_die_irrefuehrende_Politik_der_privaten_Rechtsdurchsetzung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120927] There has been a lot of attention to the “Clean IT” project since EDRi published a leaked draft document last week, on 21 September 2012. Since then, the project organisers have […]

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February 9, 2011

Spanish sports streaming domain seized by US authorities without warning

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [US-Behörden entziehen spanischen Sportstreamingseiten die Domain | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_USA_beschlagnahmen_Domain_spanischer_Streamingseite] The US authorities have recently seized, without any warning, the domain names of several sports streaming sites over alleged copyright infringements within the “Operation In Our Sites” action launched at the beginning of July 2010, targeting websites having allegedly offered […]

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July 13, 2011

EP Hearing "Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age"

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hearing im EU-Parlament: “Urheberrecht und Geistiges Eigentum im Digitalen Zeitalter” | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_EP_Urheberrecht_und_Geistiges_Eigentum_im_digitalen_Zeitalter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] The Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament held a hearing on Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age” in the European Parliament (EP) on 29 and 30 June 2011. The event was organised […]

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June 4, 2008

ENDitorial: A new "NSA FRAnchise" set up in Sweden?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Lex Orwell, a law proposal for total surveillance, is urgently being pushed to a vote on 17 June 2008 by national security hawks in the peaceful Kingdom of Sweden. It will mandate the “NSA franchise”, the FRA, to turn its forest of parabola ears and world’s 5th […]

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