February 5, 2014 · Blogs

The promise of democracy – digital rights groups reprogram European elections

A project launched today will give voters an innovative new way  to hold the European Parliament to account.However, nothing is for free – as a trade-off citizens must make a promise of their own – to vote in May’s European Parliament elections. The Wepromise.eu project proposes a “Charter of Digital Rights“. Candidates promise to uphold […]

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February 26, 2014 · Blogs

German ministers and Wikileaks on the NSA surveillance list

As if what has been revealed until now were not enough, after being ordered by President Barack Obama to stop spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, it appears that NSA has decided to extend its spying activities to other German government officials. “We have had the order not to miss out on any information now that […]

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July 11, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Danish High Court ruling on data retention use and file sharing cases

On 7 May 2018, the Eastern High Court in Denmark delivered a ruling that internet service providers (ISPs) are not required to disclose subscriber information in file sharing cases.

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August 29, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Women on Waves: how internet companies police our speech

Increasingly, internet companies decide which content we're allowed to publish and receive.

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September 26, 2007

Pole faces prison for "Google bombing" targetted to the Polish President

A Polish computer programmer, Marek W, might go to prison for 3 years for having created a program that linked Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s website to the word “kutas” meaning penis in Polish vulgar language. Marek, charged for insulting the President, admitted he had created a so-called “Google bomb” in order to check out his […]

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March 12, 2012 · Blogs

World Day Against Cyber-Censorship

Lire cet article en français Support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all is the message of this year’s world day against cyber-censorship. For the fourth time, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has published a report listing the worst violators of online free speech worldwide. In the following, we want to focus on […]

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December 17, 2014 · Blogs

Edward Snowden honoured during Dutch Big Brother Awards ceremony

On 16 December 2014, EDRi-member Bits of Freedom organised the tenth Dutch Big Brother Awards. The Minister of Security and Justice, Ivo Opstelten, won the (un)popular vote for, among other things, his plans to keep data retention. It is the third time he has won the prize. Professional experts awarded Dutch schools an award for […]

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February 24, 2016 · Blogs

2015 Internet Report on Turkey released

The Alternative Informatics Association released its yearly report about the Internet in Turkey. Entitled “State of the Art Report of the Internet in Turkey – 2015,” the report is dedicated to the memory of Özgür Uçkan, who passed away in 2015. He was a founding member of the AIA and a devoted defender of rights […]

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June 10, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

SHARE’s campaign bears fruit: Google appoints Serbian representatives

Serbian citizens can now bring their objections and requests regarding Google’s use of their private data to the tech giant’s new representative in the country.

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April 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Regulating Border Tech Experiments in a Hostile World

We are facing a growing panopticon of technology that limits people’s movements, their ability to reunite with their families, and at the worst of times, their ability to stay alive.  Power and knowledge monopolies are allowed to exist because there is no unified global regulatory regime governing the use of new technologies, creating laboratories for high-risk experiments with profound impacts on people’s lives.

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October 4, 2019 · Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

CJEU ruling on fighting defamation online could open the door for upload filters

Today, on 3 October 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its ruling in the case C‑18/18 Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook. The case is related to injunctions obliging a service provider to stop the dissemination of a defamatory comment. Some aspects of the decision could pose a threat for freedom of expression, in particular that of political dissidents who may be accused of defamatory practices.

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