September 26, 2012

Freedom Not Fear 2012

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Freiheit statt Angst 2012 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Freiheit_statt_Angst_2012?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] The 4-day “Freedom Not Fear 2012” (FNF 2012) event came to a successful end on Monday, 17 September 2012. Organisations and individuals from 11 EU-member states participated to raise their voice for better privacy safeguards, to protest against emerging surveillance measures and […]

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June 29, 2016 · Blogs

Advocate General: E-lending must be included to the lending rights

In 2015, the Dutch Association of Public Libraries (VOB) started a legal procedure against Stichting Leenrecht, the organisation distributing the remuneration to authors that libraries pay for lending books in the Netherlands. The purpose of the case was to clarify if the European Union’s Rental and Lending Rights Directive covers the lending of electronic books. […]

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June 29, 2016 · Blogs

Following the money – easy to say, hard to do

On 21 June, the European Commission organised an event about its “follow the money” approach to combating counterfeit goods. In the event, the first of a series of memoranda of understanding between the Commission and private sector actors was presented. The Commission has gone at great lengths to involve all stakeholders, including civil society, in […]

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May 23, 2007

UK implements the Data Retention Directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The UK Home Office is presently implementing the Data Retention Directive that will oblige telephony and internet service providers to keep data for 12 months. The decision was taken without any debate by simple “affirmative” votes in the parliament and the Directive is to be implemented by […]

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August 23, 2017 · Blogs

The privacy movement and dissent: Whistleblowing

This is the second blogpost of a series, originally published by EDRi member Bits of Freedom, that explains how the activists of a Berlin-based privacy movement operate, organise, and express dissent. The series is inspired by a thesis by Loes Derks van de Ven, which describes the privacy movement as she encountered it from 2013 […]

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September 26, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Five reasons to be concerned about the Council ePrivacy draft

The amendments improve the original proposal by strengthening confidentiality requirements for electronic communication services, and include a ban on tracking walls, legally binding signals for giving or refusing consent to online tracking, and privacy by design requirements for web browsers and apps.

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May 24, 2006

Big Brother Awards Italy 2006

From 19 May to 20 May Florence has hosted the E-Privacy 2006 conference, organized as usual – by the Winston Smith Project with the help of several volunteers. This edition saw a much larger participation than 2005: the participants could hardly fit the hall of Palazzo Vecchio, and several people had to stand for the […]

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May 21, 2008

New open doors for software patents in EU

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Even though the European Parliament voted against the software patents in Europe in 2005, new measures that could make software patents enforceable are still being discussed with the US counterparts or within the framework of the Community Patent. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) reports […]

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May 24, 2006

Application of the FOI law in Macedonia

The Parliament of Macedonia adopted the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Character in February 2006. NGO activists made some effort to make some quality changes to the proposed law and as a result some essential recommendations were accepted and implemented in the law. Although three months have past since the adoption of […]

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November 19, 2003

Vote on IPR enforcement delayed again

The vote on the Draft Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, originally foreseen for the meeting of the Judicial Affairs Committee of the European Parliament last Monday, has been postponed again. The Rapporteur, Janelly Fourtou (Conservative, France) had to give in to a request for delay supported by a majority composed of Social […]

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January 15, 2004

Modified Sony PlayStations allowed in Italy

In an important victory for Italian consumer rights, an Italian court has rejected the seizure of Sony PlayStation game consoles that use modified chips to permit unauthorised uses of the game systems. The case is one of the first to be brought in Italy under the new European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD). In December 2003, […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

NETmundial, multistakeholderism and fair process

“I don’t know what you mean by “multistakeholder”, ” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!” ” “But “multistakeholder” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument”,” Alice objected. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means […]

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