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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August 2, 2006

EU trying to push again biometrics on national ID cards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) According to a EU document presented by Statewatch in July 2006, The Visa Working Party on 13-14 June 2006 proposed another approach on the issue of the biometrics to be introduced on national ID cards. The issue had met resistance back in February when several members of […]

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August 30, 2006

EU Audiovisual Directive:Budapest Declaration for Freedom of the Internet

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European media scholars criticized a European Commission proposal for a new EU Directive on Audiovisual Media Services for its vague regulatory concept of ‘non-linear audiovisual services’ that would also affect the Internet. The criticism was expressed in the “Budapest Declaration for Freedom of the Internet” drafted by […]

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August 27, 2008

Copyright experts against the EU extension of the copyright term

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) New voices from the major copyright experts in the European universities and research centers question the current EU proposals of extension of the copyright term for the performing artists and sound recordings. As previously covered in the past EDRi-gram, the first letter was addressed to EU Commission […]

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January 18, 2012

Romanian Senate rejects the new data retention law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänien: Senat lehnt neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung ab | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Rumaenien_Senat_lehnt_neues_Gesetz_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_ab?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] Following the pressure of the European Commission to the Romanian authorities to implement the data retention directive and despite the decision of the Constitutional Court from 2009 against the data retention law, a new draft law has emerged, […]

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March 10, 2010

ECJ: The Data Protection Authorities need to be completely independent

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH: Datenschutzbehörden müssen vollkommen unabhängig sein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1756] A European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision made public on 9 March 2010 in the case of the European Commission vs. Germany rules that the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) established in accordance with the Data Protection Directive 95/46 needs to […]

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June 30, 2004

German privacy authorities criticise data retention

The data protection commissioners of 14 of Germany’s 15 states (Laender) as well as the National commissioner, Peter Schaar, have severely criticised the EU plan for mandatory traffic data retention and called upon the German government to vote against the proposal in the EU council of ministers. “There are good reasons why the national legislator […]

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March 9, 2011 · Blogs

Dutch Internet providers abandon "ineffective" web blocking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische Internetprovider verzichten auf “unwirksame” Websperren | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_Niederlande_Provider_verzichten_auf_Netzsperren] In 2010, the largest Dutch internet providers were taking steps to implement the blocking of blacklists provided by the Dutch Child Abuse hotline. EDRi has always insisted that the blocking of websites with images of sexual child abuse is a […]

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February 27, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards

Light at the end of the cyber tunnel: New IoT consumer standard

In February 2019, positive advancements were made regarding security standards in consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices: The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published a standard numbered TS 103 645, more appealingly named “Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things”. Under this new standard, compliant products will be expected to have unique passwords, a vulnerability […]

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