March 25, 2009

German Police searches the homes of the wikileaks.de domain owner

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Polizei durchsucht die Häuser des Inhabers der Wikileaks-Domain | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1344] The German Police searched the homes of Theodor Reppe, the owner of the domain name wikileaks.de, alleging he was under investigation for “distribution of pornographic material” and “discovery of evidence” The seven police officers in Dresden and […]

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August 28, 2013 · Blogs

The Finnish Supreme court rules on blocking anti-censorship site

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnland: Entscheidung über die Zensur einer Anti-Zensur-Website | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.16_Finnland_Entscheidung_ueber_die_Zensur_einer_Anti-Zensur-Website?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130828] On 26 August 2013, the Finnish Supreme Court ruled it was legal to censor a website listing domain names of sites that are currently blocked even if the site itself doesn’t host or link to illegal content. The ruling […]

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February 15, 2012

Irish ISP puts its customers' personal data at risk

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irischer ISP setzt die persönlichen Daten seiner Kunden aufs Spiel | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Irischer_ISP_setzt_die_persoenlichen_Daten_seiner_Kunden_aufs_Spiel?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] Personal data of more than 6 800 current and former customers of Eircom’s (biggest Irish ISP) mobile divisions may be at risk after three unencrypted laptops have been stolen, two from the company offices in Parkwest […]

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July 27, 2011

ENDitorial: Phone hacking and self regulation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Abhörskandale und Selbstregulierung | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_ENDitorial_Abhoerskandale_und_Selbstregulierung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The self-regulatory authority for the British press, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), has itself become one of the victims of the “phone hacking” scandal, as self-regulation failed to not alone prevent but even identify problems now believed to be endemic among UK […]

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November 21, 2012

Surprise! Facebook doesn't Like the Data Protection Regulation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Überraschung: Facebook hält nichts von der geplanten Datenschutzverordnung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Ueberraschung_Facebook_haelt_nichts_von_der_geplanten_Datenschutzverordnung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Facebook has recently issued a 40-page lobbying paper with the company’s position on the proposed European data protection regulation, opposing several of its provisions. “The new legislative framework should focus on encouraging best practice by companies like Facebook […]

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May 4, 2011

Facebook takes down activist groups' profiles

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Facebook löscht Profile von Aktivisten | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Facebook_loescht_Profile_von_Aktivisten] Facebook has just deleted about 50 UK activist groups’ profiles and users’ accounts without any notification to the owners of the accounts. While the reasons are not very clear, a possible explanation being that the respective groups have technically breached their […]

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May 23, 2012

Amesys – Complicity in torture: surveillance tech export control needed

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Amesys’ Mittäterschaft bei Folterungen: Kontrolle des Exports von Überwachungstechnologien gefordert | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_Amesys_Mittaeterschaft_bei_Folterungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] The Paris Court Prosecutor decided on 21 May 2012 to probe the Amesys company, a BULL’s subsidiary, over complicity of torture in Libya under Kadhafi. The investigation, which follows a criminal complaint jointly filed by the […]

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June 6, 2012

A new EC proposal on e-identities and e-signatures

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neuer Vorschlag zur elektronischen Identifizierung und E-Signaturen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Neuer_Vorschlag_zur_elektronischen_Identifizierung_und_E-Signaturen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] On 4 June 2012, the European Commission published a new draft regulation on e-signatures and e-identities that is meant to extend the existing e-Signatures Directive to include new services such as e-stamping or e-seals that would guarantee the origin […]

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January 26, 2011

ENDitorial: EDRi publishes study on self-regulation and censorship

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: EDRi veröffentlicht Studie über Selbst-Regulierung und Zensur | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2556] European Digital Rights has published a study on the scale of measures being undertaken to outsource policing activities to private companies in the Internet environment and its significance for fundamental rights, transparency and openness on the Internet. Internet […]

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May 22, 2013 · Blogs

Complaints against Irish DPA's lack of action against Facebook

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Beschwerden über die Untätigkeit der irischen Datenschutzbehörde in Sachen Facebook | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_Beschwerden_ueber_die_Untaetigkeit_der_irischen_Datenschutzbehoerde_in_Sachen_Facebook?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] Ireland’s data protection authority, ODPC, seems to be deaf to citizens’ complaints against Facebook. According to the non-profit association “Europe versus Facebook”, during the last two years, there have been about 1 000 complaints against Facebook […]

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May 22, 2013 · Blogs

TTIP – a brief victory of hope over experience

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [TTIP – ein flüchtiger Sieg der Hoffnung über die Erfahrung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_TTIP_ein_fluechtiger_Sieg_der_Hoffnung_ueber_die_Erfahrung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130526] The European Commission this week started providing some insight into its plans for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – in an event in the European Parliament organised by Dutch Liberal MEP, Marietje Schaake and […]

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June 21, 2006

Court rules Dutch mp3 search engine unlawful

The Dutch Court of Appeals in Amsterdam has ruled that search engine zoekmp3.nl is unlawful. This search engine provided links to mp3-files on the World Wide Web. The court chose not to answer the question whether linking itself to unauthorised mp3-files is an infringement of copyright law. The lower court had found that this was […]

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