August 12, 2003

Deep-linking legal in Germany

The German Federal Supreme Court ruled on 17 July that deep links from a news search engine to articles on a publishers web site do not violate German copyright or competition law. The plaintiff, a media group that publishes several newspapers and magazines, including ‘Handelsblatt’ and ‘DM’, sued the search engine provider www.paperboy.de for forbearance. […]

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June 13, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

ePrivacy for Children: What is Data Protection Culture?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) attracted widespread attention and comment in recent weeks when it came into force on 25 May 2018. Having taken several years to get from being proposed by the European Commission to entering into force, the GDPR has been designed as a concerted, holistic and unifying effort to regulate personal […]

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March 29, 2006

Swedish Foreign Minister resigned following pressure on website

Laila Freivalds, the Swedish Foreign Minister resigned on 21 March after having been cornered by the press on her involvement in the closure on 9 February of a far-right party’s website. The Web site, which was planning to publish caricatures of Muhammad like those that led to deadly protests by Muslims all over the world, […]

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July 17, 2013 · Blogs

Closed environments locking down consumers’ rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Geschlossene Systeme sabotieren Rechte der Verbraucher | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_Geschlossene_Systeme_sabotieren_Rechte_der_Verbraucher?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] Can you resell your used apps for your iOS or Android device? How about your video games that you purchased from Valve’s Steam Store? The answer is yes and no. Legally, you are allowed to resell your used apps and […]

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July 31, 2013 · Blogs

Finally! Safe Harbour Agreement under question by EU commissioner

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Endlich! EU-Kommissarin stellt „Safe Harbor“-Abkommen in Frage | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_Endlich_EU-Kommissarin_hinterfragt_Safe-Harbor-Abkommen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731] On 19 July 2013, during the informal Justice Council in Vilnius, Lithuania, EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding stated for reporters that her services will be reviewing the so-called Safe Harbor Agreement. The agreement, concluded 13 years ago between the […]

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November 5, 2009 · Blogs

We're on Twitter !

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi nun auf Twitter! | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1564] If 2 weeks is too much for you to wait to the fresh info, we have good news: EDRi is on Twitter ! Just follow @edri_org and expect news & updates on European Internet policy and civil liberties. And the random odd […]

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June 14, 2017 · Blogs

Internet clampdown – convenient distraction from political turmoil?

There was unforeseen result in the United Kingdom general election. The Conservative Party was expected to increase their majority in government. However, it failed to achieve a majority and was forced to seek an alliance with the controversial Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in order to form a government.

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August 29, 2012

Russia looking for long prison years for hackers attacking govt sites

A Russian senator has recently proposed a very drastic 15-year prison sentence for hackers who attack government websites. The proposal of Senator Ruslan Gattarov, who is also Kremlin youth group organizer, comes after the hacker attack on the server of the Moscow Khamovnichesky Court of 21 August 2012. An anonymous group seem to have admitted […]

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April 25, 2007

Copyright clearing for EU digital libraries project

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 18 April 2007, a copyright handling model for digitalised works was agreed by EU High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries including major stakeholders such as the Federation of European Publishers, the British Library, the German national library and Google. The High Level Expert Group, founded […]

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April 23, 2008

Russian Government wants to control all WiFi devices

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 14 April 2008, Fontanka.ru online newspaper reported that Rossvyazokhrankultura, the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service, intends to ask for the mandatory registration of all WiFi devices, including personal home networks, notebook computers, mobile telephones and PDAs. Vladimir Karpov, the deputy director of the […]

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December 18, 2019 · Blogs | On the ground | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online

Spain: New law threatens internet freedoms

On 5 November 2019, the Royal Decree-Law 14/2019 that had been adopted on 31 October was published in the Spanish Official State Gazette (BOE). This was just five days before the general elections that would take place on 10 November, under an undefined “exceptionality and urgency”, and justified by the “challenges posed by new technologies […]

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June 15, 2016 · Blogs

It’s time to save the internet!

Net neutrality is a principle that all the internet traffic is treated equally, without blocking or slowing down certain data. Net neutrality is crucial for fair competition between online services, for innovation, and for freedom of expression online. The European Parliament adopted the Regulation on a Single Market for Electronic Communications in October 2015. That […]

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