November 21, 2012

EDRi comments on the collective rights management draft directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi zur geplanten Richtlinie über kollektive Rechteverwertung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_EDRi_zur_geplanten_Richtlinie_ueber_kollektive_Rechteverwertung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 11 July 2012, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market. EDRi warmly welcomes […]

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October 16, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Civil society calls for the deletion of the #censorshipmachine

Today, 16 October, European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 56 other civil society organisations, sent an open letter to EU decision makers. The letter calls for the deletion of the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal, pointing out that monitoring and filtering of internet content that it proposes breach citizens’ fundamental rights.

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February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Dangerous by design: A cautionary tale about facial recognition

In this fifth and final installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we consider an experience of harm caused by fundamentally violatory biometric surveillance technology.

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October 17, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online

EU Council legal services unclear about censorship filters

On 16 October 2017, Politico leaked the response from the Legal Services of the Council of the European Union (CLS) to the questions raised by six member states about the legality of the upload filter proposal in the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal. As the censorship filter is about restricting fundamental rights, it […]

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July 19, 2006

EU Patent Policy criticised at the public hearing

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During the EU patent policy hearing on 12 July, the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) criticised The European Patent Office (EPO) and the proposed European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) which would put the new centralised European Patent Court under EPO control. FFII considers that EPLA […]

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February 11, 2009

Lack of coordination in European eID privacy features

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The EU funded European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued, on 27 January 2009, its Position Paper on security features in European eID schemes, showing a large disparity between the various systems which might affect their usefulness. The paper is an analysis of 10 ID card […]

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February 26, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Immigration, iris-scanning and iBorderCTRL

Technologies like automated decision-making, biometrics, and unpiloted drones are increasingly controlling migration and affecting millions of people on the move. This second blog post in our series on AI and migration highlights some of these uses, to show the very real impacts on people’s lives, exacerbated by a lack of meaningful governance and oversight mechanisms […]

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July 30, 2014 · Blogs

EU Commissioner on ISDS consultation: “An outright attack”

The European Commission’s public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) drew nearly 150 000 responses. The Commission was struck by the demonstration of citizen engagement that the consultation raised, and the massive number of responses paralysed the IT system of the Commission. “We got almost 100,000 […]

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August 1, 2007

ECJ's Advocate General says no handing traffic information in civil cases

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In her opinion on case C-275/06 (Productores de Música de España Promusicae vs. Telefónica de España SAU) the advisor to the European Court of Justice (EJC), Advocate General Juliane Kokott, considered that, according with the EU law, the ISPs are not obliged to reveal personal data in […]

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January 18, 2019 · Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Terrorist Content: IMCO draft Opinion sets the stage right for EP

On 16 January 2019, the European Parliament Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) published its draft Opinion on the Regulation to prevent the dissemination of terrorist content online. The Opinion challenges many of the issues from the original Commission proposal. The Opinion from IMCO should “inform” the main Report prepared by the the […]

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August 1, 2007

Search engines dealing with privacy standards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has recently announced a new change in its privacy policies by reducing its cookies lifetime to just two years, but experts warn this is more a PR move than a substantial one. However, other search engines started the discussions on their privacy issues. A new post […]

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June 16, 2004

Berlin declaration on music flatrate

During the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin, from 10 to 12 June 2004, legal scientists and civil rights defenders jointly launched a declaration on collectively managed online rights. The declaration is a response to the call for comments on the Communication from the European Commission on the management of copyright and related rights in […]

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