February 12, 2014 · Blogs

Hacktivists targeted by British spies

According to documents released by Snowden on NSA activities, a secret British division of GCHQ named Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), meant to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies, was targeting the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec. The documents reveal that JTRIG launched a “denial of service” (DDOS) attack (dubbed Rolling Thinder) and other […]

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February 13, 2008

Europe spams more than the US

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) According to security vendor Symantec, a shift has taken place in the weight of the spam networks, the European ones having created more unsolicited e-mail than those in the US lately. Thus, approximately 44 per cent of all spam messages are originated from Europe as compared to […]

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July 27, 2011

EU countries to explain lack of implementation of the Telecoms Package

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Staaten müssen sich für bisherige Nicht-Umsetzung der EU-Telekommunikationsvorschriften rechtfertigen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_EU-Staaten_muessen_sich_fuer_Nicht-Umsetzung_der_EU-Telekommunikationsvorschriften_rechtfertigen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice requesting information from 20 EU countries regarding the reasons why they have not yet fully implemented the EU Telecoms Package. The EU member states were supposed to produce […]

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November 6, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Danish data retention: Back to normal after major crisis

The Danish police and the Ministry of Justice consider access to electronic communications data to be a crucial tool for investigation and prosecution of criminal offences. Legal requirements for blanket data retention, which originally transposed the EU Data Retention Directive, are still in place in Denmark, despite the judgments from the Court of Justice of […]

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March 11, 2014 · Blogs

WePromise.eu: Digital Rights campaign unites Europe and unites political opponents

PRESS RELEASE – Brussels, March 11th Support is flooding in from voters and from election candidates for the WePromise.eu campaign. The premise is simple – voters sign a pledge to vote in the European Parliament elections, and to vote for a candidate that has signed the charter of ten digital rights principles. Hundreds of voters […]

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March 12, 2008

Google completes the DoubleClick deal after EC clears the acquisition

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) announced on 11 March 2008 that it has cleared the Google-DoubleClick deal after its investigation made according with the EU Merger Regulation. The decision of the EC considered that “found that Google and DoubleClick were not exerting major competitive constraints on each other’s […]

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November 20, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

A privately managed public space?

Our “public spaces” online where we meet each other, organise, or speak about social issues, are often controlled and dominated by private companies (platforms like Facebook and YouTube). Pushing platforms to decide which opinions we are allowed to express and which not is not going to solve major problems in our society. The EU rules […]

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March 28, 2007

Stakeholder group to advise on EU RFID strategy

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission presented its new proposal for the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags strategy for Europe after one year of consultations. The strategy will be drafted in cooperation with a Stakeholder Group to be created and Article 29 Working Party. An EU study had been initiated […]

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August 27, 2003

Danish experiment with online voting

15,000 Danish voters in the council of Ishoj, near Copenhagen, are invited to experiment with internet voting during the next elections for the European Parliament, in June 2004. According to the spokesperson from the European Parliament, Soren Sondergaard, the Danes aim at a high voter participation, especially among the young. ‘At the same time it […]

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March 26, 2008

European Commission: pro active in using open source software

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission announced it would increase its own use of open source software for ICT projects: “For all new development, where deployment and usage is foreseen by parties outside of the Commission Infrastructure, Open Source Software will be the preferred development and deployment platform.” Valerie Rampie, […]

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April 1, 2014 · Blogs

Launch of WePromise.eu: Helping voters to win the European Parliament elections

Press release – Brussels, April 1st. The We Promise campaign was formally launched today in the European Parliament. Parliamentarians from across the political divide joined forces with European Digital Rights to support the campaign. Paweł Zalewski MEP (EPP) opened the event with an introductory video message. He highlighted the importance of adapting copyright to the […]

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April 12, 2007

France establishes the DRM-regulation authority

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The independent authority foreseen by the new French law on copyright (DADVSI) was created in the last days of the Villepin government. This Authority for Regulations of the DRMs (Autorité de régulation des mesures techniques – ARMT) should ensure the interoperability of the DRM systems and allow […]

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