June 15, 2011

European Commission consultation on IPR enforcement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Konsultationsverfahren zum EU-Urheberrecht | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.12_Konsultationsverfahren_zum_EU_Urheberrecht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110623] Last week, the European Commission organised an open consultation on “Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights: Challenges posed by the digital environment”. The meeting opened with initial presentations from Jonathan Faull, Director General of the Internal Market Directorate General of […]

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February 25, 2015 · Blogs

UN report on copyright – is the EU really a beacon of human rights?

Copyright has seen a spectacular rise in importance, both politically and legally, in recent decades. The digitisation of cultural and scientific goods has led many rights holders to see strengthened copyright protection as the only means of ensuring the survival of the cultural industry. To a large extent the rights holders’ quest for more legal […]

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September 11, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Mass hacking and fundamental rights: a missed opportunity for the Court of Justice of the Euorpean Union?

On 30 April 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its decision in the ‘EncroChat’ case. The case emerged from recent European police cooperation operations against organised crime, involving the mass interception of encrypted communications by means of spyware (‘hacking’).

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March 22, 2017 · Blogs

Hakuna Metadata – Exploring the browsing history

Metadata is data about data. In an e-mail, the data is the content of the e-mail and metadata is the information about the e-mail. So, it covers information like who is it from or who sent it, the date and time, the subject, network information etc. When we are browsing the internet, data is represented […]

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January 29, 2014 · Blogs

Data protection package delayed after the Euro elections

The EU’s much discussed data protection package will not be adopted before the elections for the European Parliament which are due in May 2014. “They have elaborated a road map and now they need to deliver on it basically but I think the political agreement to get this done before the end of the year […]

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January 31, 2007

Serbia rejects biometric ID cards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A grass-roots campaign in Serbia successfully pressed the Serbian government to back off on a plan to make biometric data compulsory in the country’s new ID cards. The decision followed a pitched battle prior to the 21 January 2007 election as opponents criticized the accompanying plan for […]

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January 30, 2008

Bulgarian Big Brother Awards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 28 January 2008, the Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society Bulgaria presented the Big Brother negative awards. The Big Brother award was presented to the Ministry of Interior for publishing data from the passports and criminal conviction records of two BBC journalists who were […]

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April 6, 2016 · Blogs

Opt me out of location – campaign and report against mobile tracking

Open Rights Group, a UK member of EDRi has launched a campaign to enable people to opt out of location and web traffic tracking by their mobile providers. The campaign includes a tool to help people find out how to opt out, which is usually quite hard to find information about. The campaign is backed […]

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February 15, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram in Macedonian

Starting with February 2006, part of EDRI-gram will be available in Macedonian, a few days after the English edition. The translation is done by the NGO Metamorphosis, which is also an EDRI-member. Some of the articles from the previous EDRI-gram 4.2 are already available online at http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=626&Itemid=4&lang=mk

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April 6, 2016 · Blogs

CJEU hearing on the EU Canada PNR agreement: Still shady

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) had a hearing on 5 April to decide about the referral made on 25 November by the European Parliament on the EU-Canada agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR). Passenger Name Records (PNR) include information provided by passengers and collected by air carriers for commercial purposes, such as, but not […]

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April 6, 2016 · Blogs

Intelligence organisations get more surveillance powers in Romania

The past few months brought Romania three different surveillance proposals which blatantly increase the powers of the already excessively powerful Romanian intelligence organisations. 1. The first proposal is the new cybersecurity bill that we’ve already covered in past EDRi-gram articles. It would put computer and network security almost entirely under the purview of the many […]

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May 16, 2018 · Blogs

A glimpse of our 15th Anniversary

In 2018, European Digital Rights (EDRi) turned 15. We gathered to celebrate a decade and a half of existence of our network and its digital rights victories. The anniversary party took place on 12 April 2018 in Brussels. In between keynote presentations, a fireside chat with our founders, and a final word from our Executive Director, […]

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