November 4, 2015 · Blogs

Minister of Interior and National Police Force win Dutch BBA 2015

Amsterdam hosted four big privacy conferences in October 2015: the Amsterdam Privacy Conference and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, both for academia, the International Privacy Conference for regulators, and the Dutch Big Brother Awards, organised by EDRi member Bits of Freedom on 29 October in Stadsschouwburg. The winner of the Big Brother Audience Award is […]

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October 8, 2008

An update on the Italian PirateBay case

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Bergamo Criminal Court overrules the seizure, but establishes a case law that is a violation of civil rights. On 16 August 2008 ALCEI reported to the Italian Data Protection Authority the violations of law contained in the pre-emptive seizure order issued by the Justice for preliminary […]

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November 16, 2016 · Blogs

Dutch government wants to keep “zero days” available for exploitation

The Dutch government is very clear about at least one thing: unknown software vulnerabilities, also known as “zero days”, may be left open by the government, in order to be exploited by secret services and the police. We all benefit from a secure and reliable digital infrastructure. It ensures the protection of sensitive personal data, […]

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October 22, 2008

The PNR scheme entirely changed by the European Council

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Council has started re-writing from scratch the European Commission’s proposal for an EU-PNR scheme as a result of several EU governments’ intention to go further in this matter. Some European governments, with the UK in the lead, want to extend the PNR scheme used now […]

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February 13, 2013 · Blogs

Recommended Action: support your privacy rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mitmachen: Setz Dich für Deine Rechte ein! | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.3_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130224] EDRi together with other civil rights and data protection organisations launched on 5 February 2013 the European campaign portal Privacycampaign.eu in support of better protection for European citizens’ rights to privacy and data protection. “This is our one opportunity […]

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October 25, 2006

EU study on RFID tags shows major privacy concerns

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar.) After a 6-month consultation period, an EU study initiated after Cebit trade show in March 2006 shows concerns related to the use of RFID (radio frequency ID) tags and reveals the necessity to assure the public that these tags will not lead to a large-scale surveillance system. […]

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March 13, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

What will happen to our memes?

In Europe, new rules concerning copyright are being created that could change the internet fundamentally. The consequences that the upload filters included in the EU copyright Directive proposal will have for our creativity online raise concerns. Will everything we want to post to the internet have to pass through “censorship machines”? If the proposed Directive […]

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October 20, 2005

Swedish DPA: music industry may collect IP addresses

According to the Swedish e-zine The Local, the Swedish Data Inspection Board now allows the Swedish anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån and the record industry group IFPI to collect the IP addresses of file-sharers. In an earlier ruling EDRI-gram reported about, the Swedish Data Protection Authority said APB and IFPI broke privacy laws, because they were collecting […]

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April 21, 2010

ACTA: European Commission transparently ignores European Parliament

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA: Europäische Kommission ignoriert Europäisches Parlament offensichtlich | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1861] After years of effort from civil society and from the European Parliament, the European Commission finally published a draft text on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The most immediately striking point is that the “digital chapter” is still in the […]

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February 27, 2013 · Blogs

Iceland Ministry of Interior wants to filter the Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Island: Innenministerium will Internetfilter einrichten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.4_Island_Innenministerium_will_Internetfilter_einrichten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130227] Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland’s Minister of Interior, intends to support an “anti-shield” against online pornography, that is Internet filters, to prevent Internet users from accessing certain sites. Although Jónasson has until now promoted progressive legislation, he is now trying to introduce a […]

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October 22, 2008

ENDitorial: Seizures and other abuses – from bad to worse

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two recent episodes (that are not “isolated cases”) show, again, how distortions in Italian laws and in their application can lead to all sorts of abuses – as discussed before. The problem is that these abuses are not only continuing, but getting worse. One is explained in […]

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February 29, 2012

UK: Home Office spy plan

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Überwachungspläne des britischen Innenministeriums | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Ueberwachungsplaene_des_britischen_Innenministeriums?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] The UK Government plans to store details on all phone calls or online communications for a year in databases that will be available to security services, under the pretext of anti-terrorism fight. Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be […]

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