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January 29, 2013 · Blogs

RIP CleanIT

This is hopefully going to be our last report on the EU-funded Clean IT project. Since our last article, which was the trigger for quite some negative feedback in the international press, much has changed in the drafting documents of the project. On Wednesday 30 January, the participants meet for a final conference in Brussels […]

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March 27, 2013 · Blogs

Spain: New draft law to increase copyright infringements penalties

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Urheberrecht in Spanien: Neuer Vorstoß für höhere Strafen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.6_Urheberrecht_in_Spanien_Neuer_Vorstoss_fuer_hoehereStrafen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] The Spanish Council of Ministers approved on 22 March 2013 the draft reform of the Intellectual Property Law, also known as Lassalle law, which is meant to punish more harshly some breaches of intellectual property rights. According to […]

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March 27, 2013 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Germany sees a "septimana horribilis" in Net politics

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Eine Woche des Schreckens für die deutsche Netzpolitik | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.6_ENDitorial_Eine_Woche_des_Schreckens_fuer_die_deutsche_Netzpolitik?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] In Germany, political developments in the last week have been perceived as a frustrating defeat by the “Internet community”, as three legislative measures that had been heavily criticised (and ridiculed) have progressed in the Parliament. On 20 […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

Skype and criminal law enforcement data requests in 2012

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Skype: Auskunftsbegehren von Strafverfolgungsbehörden 2012 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Skype_und_Auskunftsersuchen_von_Strafverfolgungsbehoerden_2012?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Microsoft released its first-ever transparency report, the 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report, explaining its approach to criminal law enforcement data requests around the globe. The report includes detailed information and data about the communications platform Skype, making it the first official […]

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April 24, 2013 · Blogs

Facebook-funded “child protection” event turns into privacy bashing

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Facebooks „Kinderschutz“-Veranstaltung führt zur Demontage des Datenschutzes | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.8_Facebooks_Kinderschutz-Veranstaltung_fuehrt_zur_Demontage_des_Datenschutzes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130424] On 11 April 2013, a conference on the global fight against online child sexual abuse content took place at the European Parliament. It was organised by the Internet Watch Foundation, with the support of Facebook. The topic was the […]

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April 24, 2013 · Blogs

Big Brother Awards Germany 2013

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Big Brother Awards 2013 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.8_Deutsche_Big_Brother_Awards_2013?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130424] On 12 April 2013 the thirteenth German Big Brother Awards gala was held in Bielefeld, Germany. Organised by EDRi member digitalcourage, the awards featured five winners in different categories. No winners showed up to collect their award – in fact, only […]

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May 8, 2013 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Last Call for the W3C Do Not Track process

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Letzte Chance für die Do-Not-Track-Initiative des W3C | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] As we write this the W3C DNT working group is convening in Sunnyvale, California. This working group has been trying to come up with a mechanism to allow users to express their preferences regarding cross-context tracking of their […]

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May 13, 2013 · Blogs

Protecting the “right” of businesses to secretly make money out of your data

The European Union’s data protection package is supposed to achieve two key goals – the protection of citizens’ fundamental right to data protection and privacy and to avoid barriers to trade in the European single market. Reading some amendments proposed in the European Parliament, one might be forgiven for thinking that the purpose of the […]

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July 17, 2013 · Blogs

Finland: A new citizens initiative – Lex Snowden

EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) has submitted on 8 July 2013, with support from Avoin Ministeriö, a citizens’ legislative initiative, titled “Yes We Can – The law for safeguarding of freedom of expression and privacy internationally”, to the Ministry of Justice. If the initiative collects 50 000 names (almost 1% of total population of […]

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January 28, 2004

Italy: five years data retention

On 28 January 2004, the Italian Lower House approved of a governmental decree-law on mandatory data retention by telephone and internet companies. Government issued the decree on 24 December 2003, without any prior parliamentary debate. All data about electronic communications must now be stored for a period of 5 years. According to the privacy-group ALCEI, […]

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February 27, 2006 · Blogs

About EDRI-gram

EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe. We defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment. You can find our members here. European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments in all countries within […]

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December 4, 2013 · Blogs

Paris court orders search engines and ISPs to block websites

In a case dating back from December 2011, brought to court by the French Association of Cinema Producers, a group representing more than 120 companies including Paramount and Sony, together with other film industry organisations, the High Court of Paris has decided, on 28 November 2013, to order Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to completely de-list […]

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