September 12, 2012

Spanish website gets back seized domain names. After 18 months.

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanische Webseite bekommt beschlagnahmte Domain zurück. Nach 18 Monaten. | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.17_Spanische_Webseite_bekommt_beschlagnahmte_Domain_zurueck?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120918] After one year and a half battle with the US authorities, the sports streaming and download Spanish site Rojadirecta has succeeded in winning back its domain names, after the authorities dropped the lawsuit against it on 29 […]

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July 25, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data

New Protocol on cybercrime: a recipe for human rights abuse?

From 11 to 13 July 2018, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and European Digital Rights (EDRi) took part in the Octopus Conference 2018 at the Council of Europe together with Access Now to present the views of a global coalition of civil society groups on the negotiations of more than 60 countries on access to […]

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November 18, 2009

ENDitorial: Mobilizing to Stop ACTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Mobilisierung um ACTA zu stoppen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1595] The negotiating partners of ACTA have announced that the next round of negotiations on ACTA will take place in Mexico in January and have promised to conclude the agreement in 2010. As the last edition of the EDRi-gram exposed, the […]

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November 3, 2010

Google admits it was gathering passwords and emails via StreetView

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google gesteht Sammlung von Passwörtern und E-Mails via StreetView ein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2323] Google faces further investigation in the UK and Italy, after it has publicly admitted in a blog post on 22 October 2010 that its StreetView service has gathered more data than intended, “in some instances entire […]

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June 15, 2016 · Blogs

Swiss civil society struggles against digital surveillance laws

In June 2016, Swiss civil society activists are redoubling their efforts to collect signatures in support of a referendum vote on the revision of a surveillance law best known under the German acronym BÜPF, “federal law concerning surveillance of postal communications and telecommunications”. This revision would legalise surveillance by means of IMSI catchers (fake relay […]

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December 18, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Profiling practices

Say “no” to cookies – yet see your privacy crumble?

Cookie banners of large French websites turn a clear “no” into “fake consent”. EDRi member noyb has filed three General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints with the French Data Protection Regulator (CNIL).

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April 5, 2014 · Blogs

Child pornography and the net neutrality vote – what happened?

Immediately before the vote on the “net neutrality” vote (in the so-called Telecoms Single Market Regulation), there was a sudden storm around the issue of “child pornography”. What exactly was going on? Child pornography The 2011 EU Directive “on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography” took two years of […]

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April 25, 2007

ENDitorial: The Transparent Drug Addict – Choosing Therapy Over Privacy?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 1 March 2007 the Austrian Department of Health enacted its highly controversial revision of the Narcotic Substances Act, thus provoking an immediate outcry from both the medical and pharmaceutical associations and privacy experts. The draft has also been heavily criticised in the run-up to its execution […]

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September 26, 2012

European Parliament steps back from promoting ISP liability

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament distanziert sich von der Providerhaftung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Europaeisches_Parlament_distanziert_sich_von_der_Providerhaftung?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] On 11 September 2012, the European Parliament voted on an own-initiative report of Mr Jean-Marie Cavada (EPP, France) on the online distribution of audiovisual works. As we reported in the EDRi-gram after the vote in the leading Committee, the […]

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June 19, 2016 · Blogs

Terrorism and internet blocking – is this the most ridiculous amendment ever?

After months of closed-door, secret negotiations, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee will vote tomorrow, on 21 June, on the planned Directive “on combating terrorism”. Although internet blocking was not part of the initial proposal and appears to fall outside the purpose of the Directive (harmonisation of criminal law), the committee will vote on a […]

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December 2, 2009

Austria: BIM delivers draft act on implementing Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreich: BIM liefert Gesetzesentwurf zur Implementierung der Vorratsdatenspeicherungs-Richtlinie| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1609] In April 2009 – after the EU Commission decided to bring an action against Austria because of non-transposition of the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (DRD) – the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) was assigned by the Austrian […]

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September 11, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Anatomy of a Commission press campaign. Case study: Terrorist Content Regulation

On 12 September, the European Commission will propose a new legislative tool: the Regulation on preventing dissemination of “terrorist content”

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