February 13, 2008

France's gendarmerie goes for open source software

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Gendarmerie, France’s largest administrative body, intends to change in the next years the operating system of 70 000 workstations presently running on Windows XP to Ubuntu. This is a movement that continues the French Government’s efforts to promote migration to open source for some years now. […]

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April 20, 2016 · Blogs

DFRI thrown out of conference on surveillance cameras

Every year about 200 representatives from the Swedish security industry meet to discuss security cameras. This year’s conference was particularly interesting. The Swedish government has appointed a commission to investigate possible changes in existing laws to make it easier to get permission to use surveillance cameras in public spaces, schools and workplaces. These cameras are […]

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July 13, 2011

Recommended Action: PNR Postcard Campaign

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mitmachen: PNR-Postkartenaktion | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Mitmachen_PNR-Postkartenaktion?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] Write postcards during your holidays to the Members of the European Parliament and ask them to vote against the PNR-Agreements http://www.nopnr.org/pnr-postcard-campaign/ German version of the campaign (only in German, 6.07.2011) http://www.unwatched.org/20110706_Postkartenaktion_gegen_PNR

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February 12, 2014 · Blogs

11 February 2014 – The Day We Fought Back Mass Surveillance

Yesterday, on 11 February 2014, digital rights organizations, civil-society groups, authors, and Internet users across six continents were protesting to demand an end to mass surveillance, in an event initiated and coordinated by EDRi member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – USA. Over 6 000 websites committed to stand with the organizers in this global day […]

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October 23, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

The sixth attempt to introduce mandatory SIM registration in Romania

A tragic failure by the police to save a teenage girl who was abducted but managed to call the 112 emergency number three times before she was murdered, led to the adoption of a new Emergency Ordinance in Romania. The law introduces several measures to improve the 112 system, one of which is mandatory SIM card registration for all prepaid users. Currently approximately ten million prepaid SIM cards are used in Romania.

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February 26, 2014 · Blogs

Net neutrality in the European Parliament – what is happening?

After seven months of discussions, negotiations, lobbying and general confusion, the European Parliament’s Industry Committee was due to have a vote on Monday of this week on net neutrality. So… what happened? Well, nothing happened. Not exactly nothing… quite a long discussion in fact. There were just two items on the agenda, a vote on […]

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March 15, 2006

German Constitutional Court ruling on seizure of emails

On 2 March 2006, the German Constitutional Court has ruled that emails and mobile phone text messages that have already been transmitted and are still stored on the recipient’s device do not fall under the special constitutional protections for telecommunication privacy. The decision was made after a German judge had her computer seized by law […]

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March 14, 2007

French High Court cancels the creation of illegal migrants database

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a decision published on 13 March, the Conseil d’État, the French highest administrative court, cancelled the ministerial order (“Arrêté”) by which the Interior Ministry created the ELOI file, a database aimed at facilitating the expulsion of illegal migrants. On 2 October 2006, four French NGOs filed […]

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March 12, 2008

German constitutional challenge on Data Retention

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The complaint challenging the German data retention law in front of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has become the biggest constitutional case in German history with the submission of more than 34000 signatures backing up the action. The Working Group on Data Retention has also prepared […]

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October 7, 2009

The Pirate Bay may be banned in Italy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [The Pirate Bay könnte in Italien verboten werden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1540] An appeal won on 24 September 2008 against the decision of the Italian court enforced on 10 August 2008 ordering the seizure of The Pirate Bay (TPB) in Italy, has been reversed by the Italian Court of Cassation. […]

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July 4, 2012

Thank you SOPA, thank you ACTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Danke SOPA, danke ACTA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.13_Danke_SOPA_danke_ACTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120704] The digital rights world can be grateful that the intellectual property lobby employs too many lobbyists and too few strategists. Lobbyists are salespeople, the sell potential clients or employers amazing things, international agreements, Directives, the ability to stop time and enjoy old […]

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August 12, 2003 · Blogs

Excessive e-government demands in Poland

On the first of July, the Polish Access to Public Data Bill (2001) came into force. The bill obliges up to 10 thousands of public sector institutions (including local government, political parties, public schools, etc…) to put public information (such as information about property, structure, authorities, procedures, etc…) on special web sites. Each institution is […]

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