November 7, 2012 · Blogs

Foreign betting websites might be blocked by the Irish Government

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ Irland: Ausländische Wettseiten könnten gesperrt werden | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.21_Irland_Auslaendische_Wettseiten_koennten_gesperrt_werden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] The Irish government plans to block foreign betting websites. The Betting (Amendment) Bill 2012 would allow the District Court to make orders as follows: “in the case of a remote bookmaker or remote bookmaking intermediary, an order that telecommunications […]

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November 21, 2018 · Blogs | On the ground | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Whom do we trust with the collective good?

Wittingly and unwittingly, we increasingly leave the care of society to tech companies. This trend will prove detrimental to us.

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July 16, 2008

Russian blogger sentenced for comments on the blog

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 7 July 2008, a Russian blogger was sentenced to one year suspended jail after having been found guilty of “inciting hatred and enmity” for a comment left on a LiveJournal weblog. According to Kommersant newspaper, the young blogger Savva Terentiev was saying on the blog that […]

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July 18, 2007

Sweden wants tougher laws against file sharers

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Swedish Justice Department initiated the public debate process on a new legislation that will allow the copyright holders to obtain the identity of people that share illegal content over in the Internet. The draft says that the copyright holders can go to court asking the ISPs […]

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June 2, 2004

Polish proposal to demand ID for pre-paid cards

Revising the Polish Telecommunication Act to implement the EU e-communication directives, the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure introduced a new obligation for mandatory identification of buyers of pre-paid GSM-cards. The proposal is brought as an anti-terrorism measure. State officials immediately acknowledged that the ID-demand would not make pre-paid cards totally anonymous, referring to the vivid trade […]

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June 2, 2004

Two online journalists arrested in the Ukraine

Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) reports the arrest of 2 online journalists in the Ukraine. In two separate incidents, Ukrainian authorities detained the online journalists Kostyantyn Sydorenko and Olexandre Pomytkin. Sydorenko is an online journalist who had been reporting on a mayoral election in the western part of the country. When he went to a local […]

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December 14, 2011

Transatlantic data privacy in debate at Privacy Conference

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Datenschutzkonferenz: Debatte über einen transatlantischen Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Datenschutzkonferenz_Debatte_ueber_den_transatlantischen_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] The 2nd edition of the Annual European Data Protection and Privacy Conference took place on 6 December 2011, mostly featuring speakers pulled from its corporate sponsors, although it also included a few key European institutions’ representatives and data protection officials. […]

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August 27, 2014 · Blogs

Online freedoms in Serbia still under threat, analysis shows

SHARE Foundation, an organisation dedicated to protecting digital rights in Serbia, analysed the state of online media freedoms in the country. Examples of technical attacks on media websites, threats and insults to online journalists show a worrying trend of pressure in the digital environment. During the devastating floods that hit Serbia and the region in […]

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June 16, 2004

EU Parliament renews decision to take Commission to court

The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (JURI) decided today to take the European Commission as well as the Council to court over the final agreement to transfer PNR data to the US without adequate guarantees for data protection. The committee, which met today (16 June 2004) for an extraordinary meeting during the Parliament’s […]

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August 27, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: ISDS Consultation – redefining “omnishambles”

Earlier this year, the European Commission was faced with a problem. The inclusion of dangerous, anti-democratic “investor-state dispute resolution” (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the planned EU/US trade agreement, was threatening to become a major political problem. There was a particular danger for the Commission that this would become an issue […]

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October 21, 2015 · Blogs

Ansip changes course on Telecoms market consolidation

On 13 October 2015, Andrus Ansip, Vice-President for the Digital Single Market at the European Commission, gave a speech at a conference organised by the Financial Times (FT) and the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO). Speaking on the topic of policies and regulation in the digital age, Ansip weighed in on the debate on […]

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January 16, 2013 · Blogs

Major data leak at the Belgium railway company

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schwere Datenpanne bei der belgischen Bahn | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_Schwere_Datenpanne_bei_der_belgischen_Bahn?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] At the end of December 2012, the personal data of more than one million customers of the Belgian train company SNCB Europe were available on-line, at a simple query in a search engine. The data contained in the SNCB database […]

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