August 29, 2012

Some governments want more control over the Internet via ITU

There has lately been controversy over proposals made by several countries, such as Russia and China, to give more control over the Internet to the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Key functions of the internet as naming, numbering, addressing and identification are now carried out by ICANN, based in the US independent IANA, and national […]

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July 25, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Censoring Wikipedia in Turkey is censoring our collective knowledge

2018 will be a pivotal year for the internet.

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November 18, 2009

Google's Street View faces trial in Switzerland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Googles Street View steht vor einer Klage in der Schweiz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1594] Switzerland continues its actions against Goggle’s Street View service. The Swiss Data Protection Authority has recently expressed its firm intention to bring Google to court on the matter. In August 2009, the Swiss Privacy Authority asked […]

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December 2, 2009

Spanish court revokes its decision to shut down P2P-related sites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanisches Gericht widerruft seine Entscheidung P2P-verwandte Webseiten zu schließen| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1614] A preliminary shut down decision against two P2P file-sharing link sites has been recently overturned by a Spanish court which also fined the anti-piracy group involved in the case. Two eD2K file-sharing link sites known as Elitelmula and […]

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October 10, 2012

ECJ to rule on the biometric passports

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH befasst sich mit biometrischen Reisepässen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_EuGH_befasst_sich_mit_biometrischen_Reisepaessen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The Dutch administrative court asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) whether the EU Regulation obliging member states to store fingerprints in passports and travel documents infringes the right to privacy. This is a result of four cases in which […]

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May 23, 2007

Bulgarian actions against online piracy – "collateral damage"

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Bulgarian authorities went beyond the EU limits in investigating Internet users and website owners in 2005 according to MEP Antonyia Parvanova who thinks the Bulgarian officials have caused the bankruptcy of some Internet clubs and brought serious damages to a website owner by prosecuting people who had […]

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May 23, 2007

Opennet Initiative publishes alarming results on Internet filtering

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 19 May 2007 the Opennet Initiative (ONI) held a conference on the state of global internet filtering. On the conference ONI presented the results of its research over the last years. It concludes that an increasing number of coutries is applying filtering to the Internet. The […]

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October 10, 2012

“CLEAN IT”: the secret EU surveillance plan that wasn’t

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [“CLEAN IT”: Der geheime Überwachungsplan, der keiner war | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_CLEAN_IT_Der_geheime_Ueberwachungsplan_der_keiner_war?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] There was a lot of interest among EU policy wonks and digital rights people last week about an initiative called CLEAN IT, following the leak of its “confidential” draft recommendations. “Police to ‘patrol’ Facebook and Twitter for terrorists […]

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November 2, 2011

The European Commission encourages the digitisation of culture

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission fördert Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Europaeische_Kommission_foerdert_Digitalisierung_des_Kulturerbes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] An EC Recommendation issued on 28 October 2011 is urging Member States to intensify their efforts and involve the private sector to help in digitising cultural material in order to improve the exposure and stocks of Europe’s digital library Europeana. […]

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January 14, 2009

No e-voting in Azerbaijan and Macedonia

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the major problems with the e-voting system tested in Western Europe, some Eastern European countries has expressed their reservation in implementing such as system. The Central Election Commission from Azerbaijan considered that e-voting is not required in the 2009 referendum or in the 2009 local elections […]

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June 18, 2008

France obtained ISPs support in blocking illegal sites

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) French Interior Minister Michel Alliot-Marie announced on 10 June 2008 that the French state had come to an agreement with the French ISPs to block sites carrying pedophilic content or content related to terrorism and racial hatred. “We can no longer tolerate the sexual exploitation of children […]

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February 11, 2004

Spy-chips discovered in German loyalty cards

After a tour in the Future Store of the German Metro concern, privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht discovered spy-chips with unique numbers in the customer loyalty cards. She also found RFID tags on products sold in the store that were not completely de-activated after the purchase. Albrecht, founder of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and […]

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