February 11, 2004

Results OECD workshop on spam

During the OECD workshop on spam, held in Brussels on 2 and 3 February, the consumer unions of Europe and the USA (united in the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue) presented the results of a survey amongst 21.102 consumers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. 96 percent of the people said that either they hated […]

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July 5, 2006

Creative Communities and Consumers in TACD Conference

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) TACD (Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogues) organized a conference under the title “New Relationships Between Creative Communities and Consumers” in Paris on 19-20 June 2006. Participants represented a wide range of interests, including both artists’ and consumers’ organizations, but also WIPO and the European Commission. Several panels explored problems […]

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December 22, 2010 · Blogs

Eight years of EDRi-gram

The first newsletter of EDRi-gram was published on 29 January 2003. Then we were talking about the EC copyright directive, data retention, software patents or governmental censorship on websites in Germany. The Whistleblowers were the Time’s Person of the Year announced in December 2002. The number of Internet users was approx 600 million in January […]

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November 21, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi member FoeBuD becomes digitalcourage

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi-Mitglied FoeBuD bekommt neuen Namen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_EDRi-Mitglied_FoeBuD_bekommt_neuen_Namen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121121] EDRi member FoeBuD (Germany) has changed its name to “digitalcourage” on 17 November 2012, on the occasion of the organisation’s 25th anniversary. The old name had been a quickly constructed satirical acronym – a parody on the bureaucratic and cumbersome language […]

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November 21, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Greece: Clarifications sought on human rights impacts of iBorderCtrl

On 5 November 2018, EDRi observer Homo Digitalis filed a petition to the Greek Parliament about the pilot implementation of the iBorderCtrl project on the Greek border. The Minister in charge will have 25 days to reply to it.

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July 2, 2008

German Protests in over 30 cities against surveillance

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 31 May 2008, privacy activists organized new rallies in more than 30 cities across Germany. Following the November 2007 protests under the motto “Freedom not Fear”(“Freiheit statt Angst”), thousands of citizens participated in this year street actions. Numerous demonstrations, rallies, information events, as well as workshops […]

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November 30, 2011

Dutch Parliament: no discussions on ACTA if negotiations are still secret

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA: Niederländisches Parlament lehnt geheime Verhandlungen ab | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_ACTA_Niederlaendisches_Parlament_lehnt_geheime_Verhandlungen_ab?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] ACTA is creating quite some noise, not only internationally but also domestically. National Parliaments, including the Dutch Parliament, will have to decide whether they will approve ACTA or not. In order to correctly assess the implications of ACTA, the […]

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March 11, 2004

German government rejects data retention

On Friday 12 March the German Parliament (Bundestag) will discuss the proposal for a new Telecommunication Law in second and third reading. The government coalition (made up of Social Democrats and Greens) has softened many of the proposed new telecommunication surveillance powers. There won’t be mandatory general data retention and the costs of handing-over data […]

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July 2, 2014 · Blogs

Romania: No communication without registration

Two bills initiated during the past month by the Romanian Government, with the direct and open support from the Romanian Secret Service (SRI), are attempting to kill any kind of electronic communication without prior identification and to expand dramatically the legal access to computer systems. The first bill aims to make the registration of all […]

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July 19, 2006

ISPs reaction to British Phonographic Industry action

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) accused the ISPs Tiscali and Cable&Wireless of harbouring filesharers and demanded the close up of 17 and 42 respectively.. BPI has already taken action against 139 uploaders, having settled in court 111 cases of them and considers its campaign against filesharers is […]

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August 2, 2006

Telecom Italia wiretapping scandal

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Telecom Italia, one of the major electronic communications providers in Italy is in the middle of a huge scandal regarding the illegal wiretapping and surveillance of the telephone networks. The journalists from the weekly L’Espresso have proven that an entire system called Radar was capable of recording […]

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December 19, 2012 · Blogs

Innovation at risk in EU – the EU unitary patent adopted by EP

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ Innovation in Gefahr: EP verabschiedet einheitliches EU-Patent | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Innovation_in_Gefahr_EP_verabschiedet_einheitliches_EU-Patent?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] Despite strong and long opposition and criticism from patent lawyers, legal experts, SMEs and civil society groups , on 11 December 2012, the European Parliament (EP), putting at risk any innovatory efforts, adopted a flawed proposal of unitary […]

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