July 12, 2016 · Blogs

Dutch parliament votes against internet filter

On 5 July 2016, the Dutch parliament voted against the introduction of an internet filter. Such a filter would be ineffective and would undermine trust in digital infrastructure. The internet filter was proposed as part of new legislation to regulate online gambling in the Netherlands. Currently, online gambling is prohibited. Of course, this doesn’t deter […]

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June 7, 2006

Campaign against censorship on the Internet

Amnesty International together with The Observer and Soda Creative launched a campaign called irrepressible.info against the increasing governmental censorship of the internet. The campaign asks governments to stop censoring websites, blocking emails or shutting down blogs and make an appeal to the big corporations to stop supporting these actions. The Irrepressible.info website set up for […]

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December 16, 2009 · Blogs

Award: Aurfruf zur Nominierung / Einreichung

AEDH (European Association for the Defence of Human Rights) und EDRi (European Digital Rights) verleihen zum ersten Mal den Europäischen Datenschutzpreis ECSDPA (European Civil Society Data Protection Award). Der Award zielt auf die Auszeichnung viel versprechender Initiativen ab, die zur Sichtbarkeit und Effektivität des Rechts auf Privatsphäre und den Schutz personenbezogener Daten in Europa beitragen. […]

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May 21, 2014 · Blogs

Legal analysis of the Data Retention ruling of the European Court

The legal service of the Council of the European Union has produced an analysis of the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the data retention Directive. While these documents are normally confidential, this text has been leaked and provides interesting insights into the ruling – making one wonder what justification […]

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September 13, 2017 · Blogs

Five things the online tracking industry gets wrong

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe, one of the loudest enemies of the e-Privacy Regulation, is the association of online tracking and adverting companies. On 7 September, IAB Europe published a report titled: “Europe Online: An experience driven by advertising”. In the report, some of the key issues are clearly displayed, but some are hidden […]

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December 16, 2009 · Blogs

Abierta la convocatoria de candidaturas

La AEDH (Asociación Europea para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos) y EDRI (European Digital Rights) lanza la primera edición del Premio Europeo de la sociedad civil para la protección de datos personales (ECSDPA – Premio de la Sociedad Civil Europea de Protección de Datos). El premio tiene como objetivo premiar las iniciativas positivas que […]

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December 2, 2010 · Blogs

Internet blocking – Speech to ECTA workshop – 30 November

On 30 November, EDRi made a speech to the “Net freedoms, Secure Internet, IPR, Piracy & Blocking” workshop of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association 2010 Conference. Other speakers included Cesar Alonso Iriarte from the European Commission (desk officer responsible for the Child Exploitation Directive), Olivia Regnier (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), Innocenzo Genna (European […]

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July 12, 2016 · Blogs

Alliance for broadband competition sets out benchmarks for EU’s telecommunications update

On 12 July, EU and US telecommunications experts issued a clear warning: to ensure investment in broadband and to give consumers high-speed access to the internet, efficient competition has to be guaranteed. EU policy-makers, academics, civil society and internet providers gathered at #NetCompetition’s high-level forum to lay down the yardstick for the upcoming telecommunications review. […]

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September 18, 2017 · Blogs

Cross-border access to data: EDRi delivers international NGO position to Council of Europe

Today, 18 September 2017, a global coalition of civil society organisations, led by European Digital Rights (EDRi), submitted to the Council of Europe its comments on how to protect human rights when developing new rules on cross-border access to electronic evidence (“e-evidence”). The Council of Europe is currently preparing an additional protocol to the Cybercrime […]

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December 18, 2003

No criminal sanctions in IPR enforcement directive

There will be no criminal sanctions in the proposed European directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights after all. In the previous edition of EDRI-gram there was a report about an amendment of MEP Mercedes Echerer (Greens, Austria) on Article 20 that would re-introduce sanctions in criminal law, even for private and relatively small-scale […]

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December 6, 2010

EDRi speech to European Commission Data Retention Conference

On 3 December, the European Commission organised a one-day conference on the Data Retention Directive, bringing together police forces, national ministries, data protection authorities and civil society. European Digital Rights (Axel Arnbak from Dutch member Bits of Freedom) gave one of the speeches which opened the event. The script can be downloaded from: http://www.edri.org/files/Data_Retention_Conference_031210final.pdf The […]

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January 28, 2004

European Commission communication on spam

The European Commission has finally published a Communication on spam, just in time for the OECD conference on spam, hosted by the Commission on 2 and 3 February. The Communication focusses on actions to be taken by the EU member states in order to make the ban on spam more effective. Clearly, implementing the EU […]

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