November 2, 2011

Austrian Big Brother Awards 2011

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreichische Big Brother Awards 2011 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Oesterreichische_Big_Brother_Awards_2011?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] The 13th consecutive Austrian Big Brother Awards were held in Vienna’s Rabenhof Theatre on 25 October 2011. Entrance had to be closed an hour before starting, the theatre was already packed then. 350+ people watched the show inside, many more saw […]

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December 15, 2009 · Blogs

L’Appel a nominations est ouvert

L’AEDH (Association Européenne pour la defense des Droits de l’Homme) et EDRI (European Digital Rights) lancent la première édition du Prix européen de la société civile pour la protection des données personnelles (ECSDPA – European Civil Society Data Protection Award). Le prix vise à récompenser des initiatives positives contribuant à la visibilité et à l’effectivité […]

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January 15, 2004

Romanian journalist fired for internet posting

Ms Brindusa Armanca, a journalist from the Public Romanian Television, was fired recently for an internet posting. She was accused of spreading negative opinions about the public broadcaster via a discussion list on the internet. The discussion list is FreeEx, a public online forum dedicated to journalists hosted by Yahoo. The list is part of […]

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December 18, 2003

PNR: EU Commission negotiates breach of law

On 16 December the European Commission presented the long-awaited outcome of its negotiations with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the transfer of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to the U.S. As expected, the outcome is a foul compromise, creating a permanent breach of law. According to European data protection principles, personal data can […]

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May 21, 2014 · Blogs

EC adopts Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline

The Council of the European Union adopted, to very little fanfare, an extensive document on freedom of expression on 12 May. The document seeks to identify and clarify a range of principles with regard to freedom of communication. In doing so, the Foreign Affairs Council has adopted a text of unusual clarity and scope which […]

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June 6, 2007

The European Parliament voted for stronger data protection

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 21 May 2007, the European Parliament (EP) voted for the reinstallation of the data protection principles in the legislation that allows the police forces in Europe to share data. The European Council, which is the one deciding in police and judicial matters, had formally asked the […]

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October 24, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi responds to umteenth public Net Neutrality consultation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Konsultation: EDRi nimmt zum x-ten Mal zur Netzneutralität Stellung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_EU-Konsultation_EDRi_nimmt_zum_x-ten_Mal_zur_Netzneutralitaet_Stellung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] This might sound like a running gag, but on 15 October 2012 EDRi submitted its umteenth response to the European Commission’s umteenth consultation on net neutrality, traffic management, transparency and switching. As explained in the previous EDRi-gram, […]

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January 15, 2004

Data Dutch KLM passengers handed over to NASA

The US airline company Nothwest Airlines voluntarily handed over the personal data of possibly as much as 10 million US and European passengers to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Northwest Airlines has an alliance with the Dutch airline company KLM. The two companies have integrated their reservation systems and operate code-sharing flights from […]

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June 21, 2006

German Parliament rejects motion against data retention

On 20 June the German Parliament rejected a resolution that would have requested the federal government to join the action for annulment of the EU telecommunications data retention directive at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The text had been introduced by the opposition parties Greens, Liberals and Left Party and was supported by 133 […]

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December 16, 2009

The Netherlands promises transparancy regarding wiretapping

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Die Niederlande verspricht Transparenz bezüglich der Abhöraktionen| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1629] The Dutch Minister of Justice promised on 26 November 2009 at the request of the Dutch Parliament to provide more transparency regarding wiretapping. The Dutch government is placing relatively many taps on a per-capita basis, compared to other countries. During […]

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October 24, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

ENDitorial: YouTube puts uploaders, viewers & itself in a tough position

A pattern is emerging. After blocking a controversial video, YouTube nonpologises for doing so, and reinstates the video... just to block it again a few months later. The procedures around content moderation need to improve, but that's not all: more needs to change.

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September 20, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Cross-border access to data has to respect human rights principles

The Council of Europe started preparing an additional protocol to the Cybercrime Convention – a new tool for law enforcement authorities (LEAs) to have access to data in the context of criminal investigations. Ahead of the first meeting of the Drafting Group, EDRi coordinated a civil society submission, signed by 14 organisations from around the […]

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