July 27, 2011

Slovakia: Court asks website to filter public procurement open data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowakei: Gericht fordert Filterung von Open Data zum öffentlichen Auftragswesen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Slowakei_Gericht_fordert_Filterung_von_Open_Data_zum_oeffentlichen_Auftragswesen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] Fair-Play Alliance (AFP), a Slovak non-governmental organization operating znasichdani.sk site, was required by a Bratislava District Court to take down from the website information related to certain public procurement contracts. The website was created in March […]

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May 17, 2017 · Blogs

Reclaim the net! Copyright and online freedoms at re:publica17

It is hard to count how many times we have been saying that the current European copyright regime is outdated. Sometimes the focus is on the negatives: what it should not be like. The ongoing copyright reform reinforces that tendency with proposals such as the content filter. However, at re:publica17, an annual gathering of media […]

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September 22, 2010

European Commission's strategy for Data Protection Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ Datenschutz-Richtlinie: Die Strategie der Europäischen Kommission | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2199] During the Conference organised on 16 September 2010 by the Lisbon Council Brussels on “Unleashing the digital single market”, Vivane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission and Commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, announced, among other things, she […]

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March 15, 2006

Commission considers Microsoft still not compliant with EC Treaty

The European Commission sent a letter to Microsoft on 10 March 2006 stating Microsoft was still not compliant with the EC Treaty rules on abuse of dominant position. In March 2004, The Commission ordered Microsoft to disclose complete and accurate interface documentation, which would allow non-Microsoft workgroup servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs […]

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October 7, 2009

ENDitorial: Amendment 138-EP asked to choose between democracy and defeat

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Zusatz 138 – EP soll zwischen Demokratie und Niederlage wählen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1543] The opening meeting of the informal conciliation discussions between the Council and European Parliament (EP) has taken place. This process was largely brought about by the Parliament’s overwhelming rejection of a “compromise” proposal with regard […]

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March 14, 2007

Consolidated "Audiovisual without Frontiers" Directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the first reading in the European Parliament of the new proposed Television without Frontiers directive, the European Commission has made the new consolidated text public on 9 March 2007 . The initial proposal was criticized by Internet media specialists and some significant changes were adopted by […]

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June 13, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Digital rights in trade agreements | Platform regulation

EU – Japan trade agreement undermines algorithmic transparency

The EU trade agreement with Japan undermines algorithmic transparency, Dutch EDRi member Vrijschrift wrote in a letter to the Dutch Parliament.

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April 22, 2015 · Blogs

Hungarian data retention case: ORG, PI & scholars file amicus briefs

EDRi member Open Rights Group (ORG), Privacy International and a group of internationally acknowledged experts filed amicus curiae briefs with the Hungarian Constitutional Court. The case has been brought by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) against two major service providers, in an attempt to force the Hungarian Constitutional Court to repeal the Hungarian Electronic […]

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November 22, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

ePrivacy: EU Member States push crucial reform on privacy norms close to a dead end

Today, on 22 November 2019, the Permanent Representatives Committee of the Council of the European Union (COREPER) has rejected the Council’s position on a draft ePrivacy Regulation. “In this era of disinformation and privacy scandals, refusing to ensure strong privacy protections in the ePrivacy Regulation is a step backwards for the EU,” said Diego Naranjo, […]

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August 27, 2008

Successful appeal against backdoor in German anonymiser

Yesterday, an appeal-court in Germany suspended an earlier order to build a backdoor into Germany’s most famous anonymising service. The backdoor was removed immediately. According to the original court-order, the IP-addresses of all visitors to a certain website had to be logged and handed-over to the federal criminal police office. This vital information was not […]

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July 18, 2012

Russian bill creates blacklist of websites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Russland: Gesetz zur Einführung von Internet-Sperrlisten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Russland_Gesetz_zur_Einfuehrung_von_Internet-Sperrlisten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] At the beginning of July 2012, Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, approved in third reading a draft law titled “On the Protection of Children From Information Harmful to Their Health and Development”, allowing the Russian authorities to […]

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July 18, 2012

EP: Surprises in the online distribution of audiovisual works' report

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP: Bericht zum Online-Vertrieb audiovisueller Werke birgt Überraschungen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_EP_Bericht_zum_Online-Vertrieb_audiovisueller_Werke_birgt_Ueberraschungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] On 10 July 2012, the Culture and Education (CULT) Committee in the European Parliament (EP) voted on the own initiative report of Jean-Marie Cavada (EPP, France) on the online distribution of audiovisual content. The own initiative report follows […]

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