July 2, 2008

ePrivacy Directive debated in the EP's Civil Liberties Committee

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 June 2008, the European Parliament’s Standing Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs asked for measures to correct the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (called ePrivacy Directive). “We have introduced a few points directed towards better consumer […]

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January 28, 2009

Data protection in Italy: Loudly more of the same

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) I am sorry to say that I am skeptical about “days” dedicated to this or that cause or problem. They are often ignored, sometimes briefly celebrated, rarely leave any relevant trace over time. There are so many that we shall soon have one a week – and […]

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July 29, 2016 · Blogs

Copyfails bonus track: Copyright levies

The EU is reforming its copyright rules. We want to introduce you to the main failures of the current copyright system, with suggestions on how to fix them. You can find all the Copyfails here. This article is an additional one – a “bonus track” – to the series presenting Copyfails. How has it failed? […]

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November 21, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

The TERR Committee votes on its irreparable draft Report

The draft Report of the rather secretive work carried out by the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Terrorism (TERR) released in June 2018 raised major concerns, as previously reported in the EDRi-gram. On 13 November 2018, the members of the TERR Committee voted on the amendments to the draft.

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July 4, 2007

EDRI signs "Keep The Core Neutral" petition

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRI) has joined more than 100 individuals and organizations from around the world in signing the petition “Keep The Core Neutral” urging ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) to resist efforts to evaluate applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) […]

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February 27, 2004

Dutch government: Cryptophone protects privacy

The Dutch minister of Justice Donner has answered parliamentary questions about the introduction of a commercially available crypto-GSM. The Cryptophone was developed in the Netherlands and is sold through a German company. The device is a combined GSM and organiser running Windows Pocket PC. The Cryptophone uses open-source software that encrypts the call when connecting […]

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January 27, 2010

EDRi response to EC's consultation on creative content online

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRis Antwort auf die Beratung der Europäischen Kommission über urheberrechtlich geschützte Onlineinhalte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1673] EDRi submitted a response to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on “content online”. The consultation aimed to gather input on how to best support, at long last, the development of an effective, EU-wide, market […]

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November 21, 2012

DP Regulation to accidentally introduce voluntary “three strikes”?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bringt uns die Datenschutz-Verordnung unabsichtlich “Three Strikes”? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Bringt_uns_die_Datenschutz-Verordnung_unabsichtlich_Three_Strikes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] The European Commission proposed a new framework for protection of personal data in the EU earlier this year. While it has been the subject of probably more lobbying than any other piece of legislation in this history of modern […]

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July 4, 2007

The Austrian government has postponed the law for data retention

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A spokesman of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology has confirmed that due to the flood of responses to the law proposal there is no way to have data retention ready before the deadline set by the directive. The ministry received a total of 90 […]

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August 24, 2016 · Blogs

Romania: Mass surveillance project disguised as eGovernment

The Romanian Intelligence Services (SRI) has recently been granted EU funds for the project “SII Analytics” to acquire software and hardware for “consolidating and assuring eGovernment interoperability between public information systems”. The project seems to aim at gathering all major state owned databases (e.g. citizens and company registry, health card data, fiscal data) in SRI’s […]

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October 18, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies

Dutch NRA: T-Mobile may continue to violate net neutrality

EDRi member Bits of Freedom asked the Dutch national regulatory authority, Authority for Consumers and Market (ACM), to test the mobile operator T-Mobile’s subscription against the new European rules that protect net neutrality, to verify whether its “Data-free Music” service infringes upon the principle of net neutrality. On 11 October 2017, the ACM ruled T-Mobile […]

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March 11, 2004

Austrian court demands control military snooping powers

The Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) has declared parts of the military power law (Militaerbefugnisgesetz, MBG) unconstitutional, in a decision dated 23 January 2004. The case was instigated by Social Democratic members of the Austrian Parliament. The decision does not repair all points that critics have raised. The military law was adopted in the year 2000 […]

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