March 9, 2011

Four strikes law returns to Belgium

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Four-Strikes kommen zurück | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_Four_Strikes_Gesetz_in_Belgien] After the proposition of a Belgian version of the French three strikes law was left aside due to the withdrawal from the political life of the deputy that proposed it in 2010, a new proposal was tabled on 27 January 2011 by […]

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October 22, 2014 · Blogs

Macedonian investigative magazine fined in defamation case

On 27 September, 2014, the Skopje Court of Appeals, Macedonia, confirmed the decision of a lower court, and ordered a critical independent magazine “Fokus” to pay a nearly ten thousand euro fine to a high government official for defamation. The ruling was another setback to country’s media freedom. Sasho Mijalkov, the Director of the Security […]

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April 22, 2009

Creative Commons licences launched in Czech Republic

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Creative Commons in der Tschechischen Republik eingeführt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1378] Macedonian: [Лиценците Криејтив комонс во Република Чешка | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1432/4/lang,mk/] The localized version of the Creative Commons licences was launched on 15 April in the Czech Republic, which has become the fifty-second jurisdiction worldwide to offer localized Creative Commons licenses. […]

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November 5, 2008

The European Parliament says no to airport body scanners

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) MEPs will not support the European Commission plans to include body scanning procedures within the airport security systems. The new system planned by the European Union to be introduced in airports allows security personnel to see an outline of passengers’ bodies beneath their clothes, in order to […]

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November 5, 2008

US visa waiver program questioned by the Hungarian President

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 20 October 2008, Hungarian President László Sólyom sent back to the Parliament for reconsideration the adopted law on sharing criminal data that was to be the final agreement between the United States and Hungary on the US visa-waiver program. Concerned with data protection issues, the President […]

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October 9, 2013 · Blogs

Snowden deserves the 2013 Sakharov Prize

On 10 October 2013, the winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought will be announced by the Conference of Presidents, as chosen by members of three committees of the European Parliament (AFET, DEVE and DROI). The Prize, bearing the name of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has been awarded every […]

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November 21, 2005

Agreement on internet governance issue

The day before official opening of the summit, delegates finally reached an agreement on the sensitive issue of global internet governance. Both the US and the EU claimed victory at the creation of a new Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The forum will be set up next year and decide upon public policy issues for the […]

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January 26, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Progress for encryption & rule of law

In times of crisis, it appears that critical, evidence-based policymaking goes out the window in favour of direct emotional reassurance. This became apparent after the 9/11, Madrid and Charlie Hebdo attacks, and once again after the Paris attacks of November 2015. Regrettably, it is as if political judgement is impaired after such events, with proposals […]

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November 21, 2007

Attack on Russian opposition media claiming copyright infringement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The local edition of Moscow-based independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta from Samara was closed down on 8 November 2007 by the Russian authorities and its editor Sergei Kurt-Adzhiyev was criminally indicted under the accusation of having violated copyright provisions of the Russian Penal Code, by using counterfeit software. […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

French intelligence wants Wikipedia to delete online content

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französischer Geheimdienst verlangt Löschung eines Wikipedia-Artikels | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Franzoesischer_Geheimdienst_verlangt_Loeschung_eines_Wikipedia-Artikels?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] The Wikimedia Foundation was asked on 4 March 2013, by French spy agency Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI), to remove its article in French “Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre sur Haute” (the military station of Pierre sur Haute) considered […]

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January 27, 2016 · Blogs

Academics under attack in Turkey

1128 academics from Turkish universities signed an open letter urging the government to stop using curfews to facilitate the violence ongoing for weeks in Kurdish towns. The number of local signatories increased to 2212 by 20 January 2016, including 30 Nobel Prize winners. Moreover, the letter heading “We Will Not Be A Party To This […]

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May 22, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Platform regulation

Hey Google, where does the path lead?

If you do not know the directions to a certain place, you use a digital device to find your way. With our noses glued to the screen, we blindly follow the instructions of Google Maps, or its competitor. But do you know which way you are being led?

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