February 28, 2007

Censorship in Belarusian Internet cafes

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belarusian Council of Ministers adopted on 10 February 2007 a new act on the Regulations on Functioning of the Computer Clubs and Internet Cafes that will impose new censorship rules on all the persons that use the public Internet access points. According to the new regulations, […]

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April 27, 2017 · Blogs

AVMSD COREPER approach

On 26 April, the Committee of national ambassadors to the EU (COREPER, part of the Council of the EU), adopted a common approach to the European Commission’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). This follows the European Parliament vote on 25 April on the same proposal. http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/apr/eu-council-ams-8242-17.pdf

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February 28, 2007

Russian court dismisses piracy case as "trivial"

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Russian court has dismissed a penal case against a Russian teacher, Alexander Ponosov, that bought computers for its school with unauthorized Microsoft programs. The case become well-known when the former Soviet president Gorbachev made a public appeal to Bill Gates, asking to intervene in this case. […]

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July 16, 2003 · Blogs

Danish agreement on digital civil rights

On 4 July, the Danish Committee on citizens IT-rights published a list of 10 recommendations on digital civil rights. The committee was established in September last year by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The recommendations deal with communication with the public sector, with privacy and registration, with freedom of expression and with […]

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June 20, 2012

Prague ICANN meeting to discuss Whois data

An ICANN meeting will be held in Prague between 24-29 June 2012, where issues and topics impacting users, consumers and registrants, like whois access and the extension of domain space with ongoing new gTLD program, will be discussed. As a reminder, ICANN is an Internet governing body managing mainly IP addressing and domain names and […]

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June 19, 2013 · Blogs

Media Freedom and Pluralism in Europe

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Medienfreiheit und Pluralismus in Europa | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_Medienfreiheit_und_Pluralismus_in_Europa?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] At the beginning of the year, the European Commission’s High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism published a report and presented several recommendations to protect and promote a free and pluralistic media in Europe. In order to collect feedback on […]

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October 23, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Cross border access to data | Disinformation and electoral interference | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

EU Commissioners candidates spoke: State of play for digital rights

On 1 November 2019, the new College of European Commissioners – comprising 27 representatives (one from each EU Member State), rather than the usual 28, thanks to Brexit – are scheduled to take their seats for the next five years, led by incoming President-elect, Ursula von der Leyen.

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July 16, 2003

Swiss data protection chief criticizes USA

The head of Switzerland’s data protection commission says the United States’ war on terror is undermining personal privacy. Hanspeter Thür calls for tighter controls on the campaign against terrorism and for more money to safeguard individual rights. According to him, the Bush administration is pursuing a repressive policy with little regard for data protection. The […]

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September 23, 2009

Civil society coalition discuss global privacy standards

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Koalition der Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert globale Standards im Datenschutz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1530] The Public Voice, the largest worldwide civil society coalition where EDRi is a an active member, will discuss “Global Privacy Standards in a Global World” during its conference on 3 November 2009 in Madrid, Spain, to be held […]

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June 20, 2012

ENDitorial: Data retention – faint heart never won fair lady

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Vorratsdatenspeicherung – den Mutigen gehört die Welt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_ENDitorial_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_den_Mutigen_gehoert_die_Welt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] Six years ago, as a result of pressure from the UK, the European Union adopted the Data Retention Directive. The measure was intended to harmonise the EU single market for telecommunications, requiring all EU operators to retain data […]

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July 30, 2003

Analysis of draft IP enforcement directive

The EU parliament Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market will vote on 11 September on the proposed EU Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. The Directive proposes to harmonize IP law in such a way that all enforcement measures available to IP owners in any EU member state must be available […]

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May 30, 2018 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech

Join the coordinated calls against EU’s Censorship Machine

Several organisations in different European countries have picked up their phones and mobilised against article 13 of the copyright Directive.

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