December 15, 2010

Data Retention Directive evaluation: expect the unexpected?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Evaluierung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Das Unerwartete erwarten? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2438] The evaluation of the controversial Data Retention Directive takes an unexpected turn, for the worse. At a crucial one-day conference in Brussels on 3 December 2010, aimed at gathering input for the evaluation, long-term critic of the Directive Commissioner Malmström […]

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December 22, 2010 · Blogs

EDRi – The European organisation for digital rights

You’ve been a subscriber of EDRi-gram for some time, but we have recently realised that we’ve never given you an overview about who we are and what we do. Of course, you may check the details on the website, but an overall picture never hurts. European Digital Rights, EDRi, is a European not for profit, […]

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January 28, 2009

Romania: Is really privacy a topic in the public debate?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy is a sporadic keyword in the Romanian mass-media. And even less used in public speech. Becoming an ideal motivation only when talking about some local stars’ private life and their juicy intricacies, the real debate on the most important issues lacks completely. The Human Rights Committees […]

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January 27, 2010

The Public Domain Manifesto

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Das Public-Domain-Manifest | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1675] A new public manifest called the Public Domain Manifesto was launched on 25 January 2010, as a document developed within COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, during the last two years. According to the network, The Public Domain ensures that […]

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March 11, 2004

Privacy-penalty for French Scientology critic

In France the owner of a website was convicted to pay a penalty of 450 Euro for publishing personal data without first registering with the Data Protection Authority, the CNIL. On 25 February the appeal-court of Lyon confirmed the earlier ruling, even though the judges decided to suspend payment of the penalty. Remarkably the website-owner, […]

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January 12, 2011

ENDitorial: EDRi's data retention workshop at CCC

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: EDRi-Workshop zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung auf dem CCC | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2496] Three EDRi members,Netzwerk Neue Medien (Ralf Bendrath), Bits of Freedom (Axel Arnbak) and Panoptykon Foundation (Katarzyna Szymielewicz), together with one observer Patrick Breyer from AK Vorrat, gave a talk on data retention and hosted a workshop for activists during […]

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December 5, 2012

International coalition calls for withdrawal of Dutch hacking plans

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Internationale Koalition fordert Rücknahme der Hacking-Pläne | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Niederlande_Internationale_Koalition_fordert_Ruecknahme_der_Hacking-Plaene?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] An international coalition of more than 40 civil rights organizations and security experts have expressed their “grave concerns” about a Dutch proposal to break into foreign computers and search and delete data. In a letter handed over to the […]

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December 14, 2011

Council of Europe and European Commission initiatives on Internet freedom

On 8 December, the Council of Europe launched a very important Declaration on “the protection of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association with regard to privately operated Internet platforms and online service providers.” The text picks up many of the themes and priorities of EDRi’s study, published in January of this year, […]

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July 16, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Child abuse online: Is ignorance the best policy?

Why is online child abuse so unimportant that, politically, it does not need laws? Why is online child abuse so unimportant that the policies that are proposed to address this problem are never subject to review to test their effectiveness? Why is online child abuse protection so unimportant that policies that are implemented are never […]

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July 16, 2014 · Blogs

UK: Emergency legislation on data retention pushed through

Faced with a lawsuit from NGOs challenging the legality of its data retention regulations (which are based on the data retention directive the European Court of Justice found unlawful in April 2014), the UK government brought in emergency legislation, a Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP), to not only declare data retention to be […]

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February 10, 2010

Bits of Freedom starts campaign for data breach notification law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bits of Freedom startet Kampagne für Benachrichtigungspflicht bei Datenschutzverletzungen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1701] The Dutch digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom started a campaign for the introduction of a data breach notification law in The Netherlands. A data breach notification obligation on telecom providers is already to be implemented on […]

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February 9, 2011

German study finds the data retention ineffective

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Studie enthüllt: Vorratsdatenspeicherung ineffektiv | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_AK_Vorrat_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_ineffektiv] A study of police statistics published by the German Federal Crime Agency on 26 January 2011, finds telecommunications data retention ineffective for the prosecution of serious crime. An analysis of Federal Crime Agency statistics published on 27 January 2011 by German […]

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