July 29, 2009

EU wants to share more bank details with the US authorities

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU will noch mehr Bankdaten an die US-Behörden weitergeben | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1480] The dispute between EU and the US on access to the bank transfer details has come again to the public attention after the Belgium company SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) that intermediates the international banking […]

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July 14, 2010

Belgium ISPs are not obliged to block The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgische ISPs müssen The Pirate Bay nicht sperren | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2063] Two Belgian ISPs have won their court battle against an anti-piracy group which had demanded that they block the access to The Pirate Bay. On 9 July 2010, the Antwerp Commercial Court rejected the blocking demands made by […]

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January 30, 2008

YouTube blocked once more in Turkey

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) An order issued by a Turkish court on 17 January 2008 blocked once again the access to Google’s YouTube Web site on account of allegedly insulting clips referring to the country’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The ban lasted for 6 days and as no statements have […]

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June 5, 2013 · Blogs

Turkish demonstrations using social media despite censorship

In other times, events as those taking place in Turkey now would have probably been much unknown to the rest of the world. But, over the past several years, social media has developed spectacularly and with it, its role in promoting, organizing and responding to protest and revolution. The protests taking place in Turkey, organized […]

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June 20, 2012 · Blogs

The rise of the European upload filter

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vom Aufstieg der Upload-Filter in Europa | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Vom_Aufstieg_der_Upload-Filter_in_Europa?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] In 2011, the European Union decided against the introduction of mandatory filtering in Europe, because a democratic analysis of the evidence showed that this was not necessary. In 2012, the European Union is working on a variety of projects to […]

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August 25, 2010

French authority wants users to install spyware on their computers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische Behörden wollen Nutzer zur Installation von Spyware verpflichten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2128] Hadopi (the French Authority for the implementation of the 3 strikes law) did not make public the document regarding the draft specifications of the security measures for the Internet (part of the three strikes system), although the […]

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March 12, 2008

Israeli's ISPs forced by court to block torrent links website

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 February 2008, following pressure from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and a petition initiated by the 12 biggest record companies of Israel, the Haifa District Court ordered the country’s three largest ISPs to block access to HttpShare.com, a BitTorrent and http hyperlink-only […]

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April 9, 2008

France: Linking can be damaging to your pockets

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A recent decision by the Paris Tribunal has condemned 3 different French websites for linking to another website containing gossip information on the French actor Olivier Martinez. The actor has decided to sue 3 websites (Fuzz.fr, Vivre-en-normandie.com and CroixRousse.net) for linking to external websites that presented the […]

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August 28, 2013 · Blogs

UK authorities press to get hold of Snowden affair’s documents

The echoes of the PRISM affair keep growing. On 21 August 2013, Secretary general Thorbjorn Jagland of the Council of Europe, addressed a letter to UK home secretary Theresa May asking for explanations regarding UK’s recent actions following the PRISM scandal. Jagland was especially referring to the retention at Heathrow airport, on 17 August 2013, […]

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September 11, 2013 · Blogs

US and UK intelligence campaign against encryption

Top-secret files obtained by the Guardian from former contractor Edward Snowden reveal that NSA and GCHQ, that is the US and British intelligence agencies, cracked the online encryption used by people to protect their personal information such as emails, banking and medical records. The guarantees offered by Internet companies to their consumers that their personal […]

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April 23, 2014 · Blogs

Madrid Court rules P2P legal in landmark case against record labels

Record labels Sony BMG Music Etertainment, Universal Music Spain and Warner Music Spain have been involved in a six year case against Pablo Soto, the developer of napster-esque peer-to-peer (P2P) apps Blubster, Piolet, and Manolito. On the 31 March the Madrid Provincial Court ruled that Soto’s “activity is not only neutral, and perfectly legal, moreover […]

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October 24, 2012

Google threatens to exclude the French online press from its search

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google droht der französischen Online-Presse mit Ausschluss aus der Google-Suche | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Google_droht_der_franzoesischen_Online-Presse_mit_Ausschluss_aus_der_Google-Suche?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] GESTE, a French group of online editors, has been trying for a few years now to get part of Google’s revenues generated by its news service with indexed titles. “Google has developed on our content” said […]

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