May 7, 2008

Update on Cybercrime Treaty

Last month, Denmark signed the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention. Now all 15 EU States have signed it, but only two two countries (Albania and Croatia) have ratified it. The Convention needs five ratifications before it comes into force. On 7 November 2002, an additional protocol on racism was adopted by the Council of Europe’s […]

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March 8, 2017 · Blogs

Danish Defence Intelligence Service will get access to PNR data

Denmark does not take part in the EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive since Denmark has an opt-out from the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) area of the European Union. Instead, Denmark has a national PNR system which has been developed gradually on the legislative side since 2006. The practical implementation by Danish authorities has […]

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July 14, 2010

European Parliament invents Google Nanny

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament macht Google zum Kindermädchen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2060] The Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection of the European Parliament has found another use for Google. From now on, Google should read what we are searching for and, if the search implies any risky behaviour, Google should tell us […]

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September 11, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Mass hacking and fundamental rights: a missed opportunity for the Court of Justice of the Euorpean Union?

On 30 April 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its decision in the ‘EncroChat’ case. The case emerged from recent European police cooperation operations against organised crime, involving the mass interception of encrypted communications by means of spyware (‘hacking’).

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January 29, 2014 · Blogs

UK government must justify its large-scale surveillance activities

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asks the UK government to justify how GCHQ’s practices comply with the right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention. The ECtHR’s action follows a case brought by Big Brother Watch, the EDRi member Open Rights Group, English PEN and the German Internet activist Constanze Kurz […]

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January 29, 2014 · Blogs

Spain court orders an ISP to disconnect a user for P2P file sharing

For the first time in Spain, a court has ruled that an ISP must disconnect one of its users for having shared P2P music files. In a case brought to the court by Promusicae, an association of Spanish music producers, against the Spanish ISP R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, the Barcelona Court of Appeals has […]

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January 31, 2007

EFFI won a court case about donation-pages in Finland

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Helsinki district court released 31 January 2007 Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) from charges on illegal fund raising on the Internet. The board members faced criminal charges and it was further demanded that EFFI transfers all illegal donations totalling over 4000 euros to the state. The prosecutor, supported […]

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June 6, 2012 · Blogs

Creating a safer Internet for children – some solid progress

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein sicheres Internet für Kinder – erste Fortschritte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Ein_sicheres_Internet_fuer_Kinder_erste_Fortschritte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] The European Commission hosted a meeting of the “CEO Coalition” on Friday of last week. This is a project where Commissioner Kroes invited industry to produce measures to make the Internet a safer place for children. The dangers […]

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April 5, 2017 · Blogs

UK government attacks encryption … again

In the aftermath of the attack in London in March 2017, the UK government has, again, indicated that it wants to force companies to weaken encryption. The government wants to be able to access messages sent via services that use end-to-end encryption. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd stated on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show that it […]

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June 9, 2012

Numbers at ACTA demonstrations exceed expectations

After all of the announcements of ACTA’s death, one would wonder why anybody would have felt the need to turn up to the anti-ACTA demonstrations today. In April, the European Parliamentarian in charge of the ACTA dossier said that ACTA was dead.[1] In May, the European Commissioner for the Information Society, Neelie Kroes, said that […]

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March 11, 2015 · Blogs

Dutch civil rights group highlights dangers of ISDS in trade deals

On 9 March 2015, EDRi-member Vrijschrift sent a letter to the Dutch Parliament, highlighting the dangers of investor-state dispute settlement clauses (ISDS) in the trade agreements with Canada (CETA) and Singapore (EUSFTA) that the European Union is currently negotiating. On 25 March, EU Ministers of Trade will meet informally to discuss trade agreements, and in […]

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April 19, 2017 · Blogs

Dangerous myths peddled about data subject access rights

Now that the date on which the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable is rapidly approaching, the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) are in the process of clarifying what their shared positions will be on various topics, including profiling. This is done through stakeholder consultation meetings.

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