October 6, 2010

Italy: Online editors are not liable as the printed press

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italien: Online-Herausgeber unterliegen nicht den gleichen Haftungsbestimmungen wie Printmedien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2245] The Italian Court of Cassation ruled in a decision taken on16 July 2010 and published on 1 October 2010 that online editors are not directly liable for the content published on their websites. In this case, it […]

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March 26, 2008

Czechs became Trojan horses for new US visa waiver programme

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Czech Republic Interior Minister Ivan Langer and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff signed on 26 February 2008 in Washington D.C. the Memorandum of Understanding which is the first step in introducing new electronic visa programme for all EU countries. In this Memorandum Czech authorities agreed to […]

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May 6, 2015 · Blogs

Slovakia: Mass surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional

Slovakia’s data retention law is now history. On 29 April, the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic ruled that the mass surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional. The decision was made in the context of proceedings initiated by 30 Members of the Parliament on behalf of the European Information Society Institute (EISi), a Slovakia-based think-tank. In […]

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March 26, 2014 · Blogs

Extensive surveillance in the draft Finnish cyber intelligence law

Finnish government is in process of preparing of a new law on cyber intelligence. The draft by the Ministry of Defence working group preparing the law suggests giving the authorities such as Security Intelligence Service, National Bureau of Investigation, Communications Regulatory Authority and Defence Forces a mandate for a wide surveillance of online communications, including […]

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April 12, 2007

CoE to address the impact of technical measures on human rights

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With its seventh meeting held on 26-27 March 2007 in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (CoE MC-S-IS) is pursuing its mandate for another two-years period, as affirmed in its revised terms of reference. There are little changes […]

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July 31, 2013 · Blogs

Over 100 global groups make a principled stand against surveillance

For some time now there has been a need to update understandings of existing human rights law to reflect modern surveillance technologies and techniques. Nothing could demonstrate the urgency of this situation more than the recent revelations confirming the mass surveillance of innocent individuals around the world. To move toward that goal, today we’re pleased […]

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April 12, 2007

ENDitorial – About EFF Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As some of our readers already know, the biggest digital civil rights NGO from the United States has opened this year a new office in Brussels to work with EU policy issues. EFF’s new European Affairs Coordinator, Erik Josefsson, was previously the president of the Swedish chapter […]

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April 25, 2007

IPRED2 voted in first reading by the European Parliament

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2), with the changes made by a report produced by Nicola Zingaretti (PES), was voted by the European Parliament in its first reading today with a vote a 374 in favour, 278 against and 17 abstentions. Unfortunately, the suggestions from an […]

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November 3, 2010 · Blogs

New EDRi members

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue EDRi-Mitglieder | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2322] At the EDRi General Assembly of 30 October 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, EDRi welcomed two new members. The Panoptykon Foundation is a Polish organisation focusing on human rights, in particular the right to privacy, in the clash with modern technology used for surveillance purposes. […]

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May 10, 2006

Three Spanish courts uphold validity of music free licenses

Spanish courts have upheld three times already the validity of music free licenses. In the three cases, the Sociedad General de Autores (SGAE), Spanish music copyright collecting society, sued some open public premises on alleged rights to the music listened therein. In all the three cases, the defences demonstrated that the music played was downloaded […]

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November 3, 2010

Free Culture 2010 in Barcelona

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [‘Free Culture’ 2010 in Barcelona | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2327] Barcelona was the capital of free culture at the end of October 2010, with two events – Oxcars and then the Free Culture Forum (FCF) – organized by Exgae for awarding and promoting free culture concepts across Europe and beyond. The […]

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November 5, 2003

Big Brother Awards presented across Europe

Privacy and civil liberty activists across Europe have presented their Big Brother Awards to governments, companies and persons that have excelled in violating the right to privacy. In a weeks period Award ceremonies were held in Germany (24 October), Spain (25 October), Austria (26 October) and Switzerland (1 November). In Germany prices went to German […]

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