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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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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