December 5, 2007

RFID and Informed Consent – Using and removing of RFID functionality

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the the EDRi statements on RFID Privacy Issues and RFID Security Issues published earlier this year, EDRi recently contributed with a third written statement to the European Commission’s RFID Expert Group focusing on RFID and Informed Consent. In this paper, EDRi deals with the possibilities of […]

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June 2, 2010

PNR used to investigate innocent travellers and turn them into suspects

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Unschuldige Reisende werden mittels PNR überprüft und zu Verdächtigen gemacht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1970] It has recently been revealed that UK Police secretly investigated the PNR (Passenger Name Records) data of 47 000 innocent people having travelled in and out of UK in 2009. Checks included scrutiny of the police […]

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May 18, 2011

Data retention in EU Council Meeting

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Ministerrat diskutiert Vorratsdaten | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_EU-Ministerrat_diskutiert_Vorratsdatenspeicherung] The EU Council Working Group of Justice and Home Affairs had a first discussion on 12 May 2011 on the European Commission implementation report on the data retention directive. The Commission agreed that the implementation has been uneven, both in terms of retention […]

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June 5, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation | Transparency

Facebook and Google asked to appoint representatives in Serbia

Three months before the new Serbian Law on Personal Data Protection becomes applicable, EDRi member SHARE Foundation asked 20 data companies from around the world – including Google and Facebook – to appoint representatives in Serbia as required by the new law. This is crucial for providing Serbian citizens and competent authorities with a contact […]

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December 6, 2006

Campaign launched in UK to opt out of central medical database

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A campaign has been launched in the UK to get people to opt out of a government scheme to upload medical records from family doctors’ surgeries into a central health database. TheBigOptOut.org was launched in London on 29 November 2006 with support from NGOs such as Foundation […]

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December 17, 2008

Spanish collective society fined for making clandestine wedding video

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) has been fined for having placed a private detective in a restaurant in Seville, in 2005, to film a wedding in order to prove that the restaurant was using music for which it had paid no royalties. The […]

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December 5, 2007

UK DNA database errors raise concerns

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The largest DNA database in the world covering details on about 4.5 million people including information on every person arrested, convicted or not, and on 900 000 children raises questions as inaccuracies and administrative errors have been found in its records. Incorrect dates, spelling mistakes and duplications […]

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June 2, 2010

How many websites does Turkey block?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Wie viele Webseiten sperrt die Türkei? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1972] That information hasn’t been updated since May 2009. This is why Prof Yaman Akdeniz, who teaches Internet law at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, has initiated a trial, based on the Turkish law on access to public information. In May 2009, the […]

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December 5, 2005

Results e-society conference in Macedonia

The international conference “e-Society.Mk” took place in Macedonia in October and November 2005, with the goal of raising awareness and sharing knowledge of decision makers about important information society issues with the general public. It was organised by Foundation Metamorphosis and supported by OSCE Mission in Skopje and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the […]

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April 25, 2012

ACTA – if you think we've won, we've lost

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA – Wir sind noch lange nicht am Ziel | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_ACTA_Wir_sind_noch_lange_nicht_am_Ziel?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] Following the announcement of David Martin, the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in charge of the ACTA dossier in the European Parliament, that he will advise his colleagues to vote against the proposal, a widespread assumption […]

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January 28, 2015 · Blogs

French Patriot Act: Do we really need more surveillance?

On 21 January, only two weeks after the attacks in Paris, the French government announced a big bundle of new security measures, a “general mobilisation against terrorism”. But does the country need more surveillance? France has introduced telecommunications data retention for communications more than ten years ago, it has extensive video surveillance and intelligence services […]

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December 5, 2007

Progress in the European Digital Libraries EU Initiative

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A meeting on 27 November 2007 of a high level group on digital libraries and officials of the European Commission formalised the agreement between European libraries, archives and museums in a common effort to create a European digital library that would give access to a common European […]

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