May 23, 2007

Romanian open source community gets together

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Probably the most important conference in Romania on open source and free software took place at the end of the last week – on 18-19 May 2007 in Brasov. The eLiberatica 2007 conference was organized by a new group of IT specialists called Romanian Open Source and […]

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November 19, 2003

French study warns against spam via Plaxo

The ad-hoc French organisation ‘halte au spam’ (stop spam) organised a successful forum on spam in Paris on 3 November. The forum was attended by more than 200 people, including 25 journalists. During the forum an interesting new study was presented about the privacy-dangers of social internet-tools like Plaxo. Plaxo’s service invites you to upload […]

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June 7, 2006

Content flatrate is feasible according to French study

Nothing in the national law and international obligations prevents states from permitting file-sharing as long as they subject it to a levy. This is the conclusion of a legal feasibility study under the supervision of Prof. André Lucas, the most renowned copyright scholar in France. The study on the feasibility of compensation for peer-to-peer file-sharing, […]

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January 15, 2004

Launch of Irish Free Software Organisation

On 5 January 2004 the Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) was launched. Since June 2003, members of a European free software mailing list have been collaborating on issues such as software patents, and the European Copyright Directive. One of the founders, Ciaran O’Riordan, comments: “With Ireland holding the presidency of the EU for the next […]

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January 15, 2004

Schengen information system goes biometric

With the planned inclusion of two biometric identifiers into EU Member States’ passports and ID Cards as well as Visa to the EU, it was only a question of time when the first plans to store these identifiers in an EU-wide database would be announced. The announcement came shortly before Christmas: Biometric data will, according […]

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September 20, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Transparency

Did the EU Commission hide a study that did not suit their agenda?

In 2013, the European Commission announced a launch of a study on copyright – and never published its results. Julia Reda, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), tabled a freedom of information request on this issue and was eventually granted access to the study.

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July 13, 2015 · Blogs

EU Parliament to vote on indiscriminate collection and storage of travel data on 15 July

Two years after rejecting the Commission proposal for a Directive on Passenger Name Record (PNR) in April 2013, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is expected to vote again on the adoption of this blanket surveillance measure on 15 July. The purpose of the Directive is to collect and store the […]

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June 21, 2006

EC supports its online broadcasting proposal

In an Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) event held in Brussels on 14 June, Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, expressed again her position to support the EC proposal to revise the Television Without Frontiers (TVWF) Directive. “There will be no regulation of the Internet,” Mrs. Reding told ZDNet UK stating that […]

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January 14, 2009

Big Brother Awards UK 2008

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Big Brother Awards (BBA) are back in UK with more positive awards to celebrate the people that have been involved in protecting privacy in the past years. The event, held in December 2008 at the London School of Economics, was organized by the EDRi-member Privacy International and […]

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January 14, 2009

ENDitorial: Everyone can eavesdrop in Macedonia

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Eavesdropping devices that are being sold through adverts are mostly used by pupils for cheating at their school exams, and by men who doubt their wives’ fidelity. “Hey, let’s meet, we should not discuss this over the phone.” This sentence has long been used among friends, colleagues […]

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February 11, 2004

Dutch police arrests 52 'Nigerian' spammers

In January, Dutch police have arrested 52 people suspected of large scale internet fraud with the infamous ‘Nigerian e-mail’ scam. The scammers sent spam e-mails asking for help in transferring a large sum of money out of their country (usually Nigeria), in exchange for a generous percentage. According to an AP news report, the gang […]

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February 27, 2004

EU ruling on Microsoft by the end of March

Antitrust regulators from the all EU member States will discuss a draft European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft in Brussels on 15 March. In a second meeting on 22 March the regulators will discuss the measures, including fines, that will be taken against Microsoft. It is expected that the final ruling will become public in […]

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