July 30, 2008 · Blogs

EDRi receives a 15Keuros donation from XS4ALL and its customers

In the beginning of May 2008, a critical network error caused an Internet blackout for a great number of people in the Netherlands. The problem, by some said to be the biggest in internet history in Holland, caused over a hundred thousand DSL lines to be disconnected for up to four days, among them many […]

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February 10, 2010

Winner European Civil Society Data Protection Award 2010: FakeFriends.me

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Gewinner des Europäischen Datenschutzpreises 2010: FakeFriends.me | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1698] And the winner is… PER.SONN.ES (in French) / FAKEFRIENDS.ME (in English) AEDH (European Association for the Defense of Human rights) and EDRi (European Digital Rights) are pleased to announce that the winner of the first edition of the European Civil […]

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February 11, 2009

Big Brother Awards 2009 Ceremony in Bulgaria

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 28 January 2009, Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society – Bulgaria organized the fourth Big Brother Awards ceremony in Bulgaria. It was held at the National Press center of the Bulgarian News Agency and was also broadcasted live online. The awardees of the Big […]

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September 23, 2015 · Blogs

Generali, the health insurer who wants to know everything about you

On 20 May 2015, we published a collection of science fiction stories for the 300th edition of EDRi-gram newsletter – the premise of the collection was scenarios that we envisaged happening in 2025. We did not imagine that one of the stories on data collection practices by health insurers would be getting closer to reality […]

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May 19, 2004

10 years of internet prosecution in Italy

On 18 May 2004, the Italian Senate turned a highly controversial new decree into law that puts heavy fines and even prison sentences on the download of movies, music or other copyrighted works even when done without any commercial purpose. Though the law speaks of penalties when ‘making a profit’, jurisprudence in Italy has already […]

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February 10, 2010

The winners of the Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2009

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Big Brother Awards 2009 | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1705] The winners of the Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2009 were announced on 5 February 2010 in Amsterdam. In the category “Government”, the prize was awarded to the creation of a fingerprint database of all Dutch citizens, to be accessed by the […]

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September 23, 2015 · Blogs

EU Parliament’s “radicalisation” draft report – lost in translation

The European Parliament is currently working on a non-binding Resolution on terrorist “radicalisation”. As is usual with such instruments, little attention is being paid to the initiative, because it is not binding legislation. Nonetheless, it will be a formal position of the European Parliament, and it’s important that the outcome will show adequate concern for […]

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February 25, 2009

Italy to enforce a global censorship legislation?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Steht Italien vor der Einführung eines weltweiten Zensurrechts? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1305] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Италија ќе донесе законодавство за… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1388/4/lang,mk] The Italian Senate approved – and the Camera dei deputati (Italian “Low Chamber”) is ready to finally pass – draft law 733 named Pacchetto […]

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November 15, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Platform regulation

Internet protocol community has a new tool to respect human rights

EDRi member Article 19 welcomes the Internet Research Task Force’s new “Research into Human Rights Considerations” as a much needed tool for the internet protocol community to respect human rights.

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December 19, 2012 · Blogs

Companies abuse a loophole in data protection law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Firmen nutzen Lücke im Datenschutzgesetz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Firmen_nutzen_Luecke_im_Datenschutzgesetz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] Personal data of internet users are often processed on a legal basis too weak to provide a real protection of the users’ right to privacy. On 11 December 2012, EDRi member Bits of Freedom published a report about the flaws of […]

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September 30, 2015 · Blogs

Civil society calls for reform of trialogues in a letter to EU Commission, Parliament and Council

European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 17 signatory organisations, today sent an open letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Council Secretary-General Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, calling for a major reform of the so-called “trialogues”. “Trialogues cannot be a means for EU institutions to circumvent their obligations with regard to transparency and […]

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February 26, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Romania: Mandatory SIM registration declared unconstitutional, again

On 18 February 2020, the Romanian Constitutional Court unanimously declared unconstitutional a new legislative act adopted in September 2019 introducing mandatory SIM card registration. The legislative act in question was an emergency ordinance issued by the Government which wanted to introduce this obligation as a measure “to improve the operation of the 112 emergency service […]

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