November 5, 2009 · Blogs

We're on Twitter !

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi nun auf Twitter! | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1564] If 2 weeks is too much for you to wait to the fresh info, we have good news: EDRi is on Twitter ! Just follow @edri_org and expect news & updates on European Internet policy and civil liberties. And the random odd […]

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May 6, 2015 · Blogs

Digital Single Market: A missed opportunity

The European Commission (EC) published its Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy on 6 May 2015. EDRi is thoroughly studying the DSM strategy and its impacts on European citizens’ digital rights. A day before the official publication of the strategy, EDRi issued a press release expressing concerns based on the analysis of the leaked drafts (Draft Communication […]

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October 20, 2010

Guidelines for more rigorous respect of the Fundamental Rights Charter

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Leitlinien für die Einhaltung der EU-Grundrechtecharta | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2274] The European Commission has adopted a strategy which is aimed at ensuring that the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is respected at every stage of the EU legislative process. At the initiative of Commissioner Reding, the intention is to create […]

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June 14, 2017 · Blogs

Internet clampdown – convenient distraction from political turmoil?

There was unforeseen result in the United Kingdom general election. The Conservative Party was expected to increase their majority in government. However, it failed to achieve a majority and was forced to seek an alliance with the controversial Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in order to form a government.

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May 26, 2015 · Blogs

Parental Controls: Lawless blocking/filtering as part of “net neutrality”?

At the request of the United Kingdom, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and European Parliament appear ready to adopt – in the context, ironically, of measures that are supposed to protect net neutrality – provisions which are meant to allow UK-style blocking and filtering across Europe. This approach was opposed in […]

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April 26, 2006

EU report recommends open access to publicly funded scientific research

The EU report drafted by economists from Toulouse University and the Free University of Brussels on the economic and technical evolution of scientific publishing in Europe, published on 31 March 2006, recommends public access to scientific research funded by the European taxpayer. The report proposes the development of a European policy that would allow researchers […]

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August 29, 2012

Russia looking for long prison years for hackers attacking govt sites

A Russian senator has recently proposed a very drastic 15-year prison sentence for hackers who attack government websites. The proposal of Senator Ruslan Gattarov, who is also Kremlin youth group organizer, comes after the hacker attack on the server of the Moscow Khamovnichesky Court of 21 August 2012. An anonymous group seem to have admitted […]

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April 25, 2007

Copyright clearing for EU digital libraries project

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 18 April 2007, a copyright handling model for digitalised works was agreed by EU High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries including major stakeholders such as the Federation of European Publishers, the British Library, the German national library and Google. The High Level Expert Group, founded […]

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April 23, 2008

EDPS endorses data breach notification provision in ePrivacy Directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued his opinion on the new draft text of the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (ePrivacy Directive) as proposed by the European Commission. One of the important changes supported by the EDPS with the new text is the creation […]

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April 23, 2008

More Internet content blacklisted in Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs have agreed to make publishing bomb-making instructions on the Internet a crime. The French authorities are discussing making the publication on the Internet of any alleged pro-anorexia information a crime. Justice and interior ministers from the EU member states […]

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April 23, 2008

Russian Government wants to control all WiFi devices

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 14 April 2008, Fontanka.ru online newspaper reported that Rossvyazokhrankultura, the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service, intends to ask for the mandatory registration of all WiFi devices, including personal home networks, notebook computers, mobile telephones and PDAs. Vladimir Karpov, the deputy director of the […]

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April 23, 2008

Eurobarometers on data protection in EU

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) — Version corrected on 24.04.2008— According to a couple of Eurobarometer surveys on data protection, issued by the European Commission on 17 April 2008, EU citizens have little faith in the security of data transmission on the Internet. Two surveys were conducted by Gallup in January 2008, […]

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