February 2, 2006

Irish ISPs to give File-sharers details

On Tuesday 24 January the Irish High Court made an order requiring three ISPs to hand over the personal details of 49 alleged file-sharers. This decision follows a similar decision in July 2005, and was made by the same judge (Kelly J.) in essentially identical terms, including an undertaking that the information would only be […]

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June 6, 2012 · Blogs

BEREC’s findings on net neutrality

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Netzneutralität: BEREC präsentiert neuste Erkenntnisse | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Netzneutralitaet_BEREC_praesentiert_neuste_Erkenntnisse?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] On 29 May 2012, The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) published its findings in its joint investigation with the European Commission regarding traffic management and other practices that lead to restrictions to an open Internet in Europe. This […]

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June 19, 2003

Industry groups against data retention laws

Four major industry groups have published a joint statement against mandatory data retention. The coalition represents worldwide and European businesses including most major electronic communications service providers and manufacturers. They are challenging EU member states on proposals that would require communication service providers to store details of all calls, emails and transactions for use by […]

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June 6, 2012

Modernisation of CoE Convention 108: EDRi's comments

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europarat: EDRi-Stellungnahme zur Modernisierung der Konvention 108 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Europarat_EDRi-Stellungnahme_zur_Modernisierung_der_Konvention_108?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] EDRi submitted last week its comments on the proposal for the Modernisation of Council of Europe (CoE) Convention 108 for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. EDRi reiterated its support to the overall […]

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May 28, 2013 · Blogs

If we assume the earth is flat – how much does data protection cost?

First we had the US administration influencing the European Commission’s drafting of privacy legislation, then we had the lobbying onslaught and the “lobbyplag” scandal. Now, we have absurd and misleading “studies” that make wild assumptions in order to come to outlandish conclusions regarding the “cost” of data protection. In the most recent example, the European […]

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April 5, 2017 · Blogs

Denmark: Weakening the oversight of intelligence services

A draft law to amend the data protection provisions of the law on the oversight of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) was submitted for public consultation in September 2016. In their consultation responses, several NGOs including EDRi member IT-Pol Denmark, as well as the Danish Intelligence Oversight Board (TET) criticised the proposal. The […]

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May 2, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

EU Member States fight to retain data retention in place despite CJEU rulings

EU Member States are still working to adopt their position on the ePrivacy Regulation proposed by the European Commission in January 2017. A number of draft compromise texts have been published by the Council Presidency before discussions in the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society (WP TELE).

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June 19, 2003

EP Legal Committee approves of software patents

The European Parliament’s Committee for Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (JURI) voted Tuesday 17 June about a list of proposed amendments to the planned software patent directive. It was the third and last in a series of committee votes. The results will be presented to the parliament in plenary early in September. The other […]

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March 11, 2015 · Blogs

Danish anti-terror proposal expands surveillance

On 19 February 2015, the Danish government presented a 12-point plan for new anti-terror initiatives in response to the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and the shooting incident in Copenhagen on 14 February. This will become the third major anti-terror package since 2001 to be presented to the Danish Parliament. The focus of the plan […]

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March 11, 2015 · Blogs

Revelations on Safe Harbour violations go to hearing at EU Court

In late 2012, Max Schrems, a privacy advocate and member of the Europe v Facebook group requested that the Irish Data Protection Commissioner investigate the alleged sharing of European Facebook users’ information with the United States National Security Agency (NSA), in the light of the Snowden revelations. These revelations suggest that Facebook and the US […]

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February 15, 2006

Dispute over data retention costs in Czech Republic

The Czech authorities are currently in a debate with telecommunication companies over the exact amounts they will have to pay to reimburse the costs related to the new data retention legislation that came into force at the middle of the last year. The Czech republic already adopted data retention legislation in the middle of 2005, […]

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February 14, 2007

The ORG and FIPR week of e-voting events

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Last week there were three e-voting events hosted in London by EDRI members, the Open Rights Group (ORG) and the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR). On 6 February guests saw a screening of the documentary film “Hacking Democracy” which reveals in detail the failings of e-voting […]

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