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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September 18, 2017 · Blogs

FnF 2017: Register for travel support until 22 September!

Freedom not Fear, an annual barcamp organised by EDRi member Digitalcourage for European digital rights activists, takes place in Brussels the weekend of 6-9 October 2017. The event takes place at Mundo B in Brussels and is open for everyone – there are no registrations. Participants that extend their stay to visit the European Parliament […]

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January 28, 2004

German DP Commissioner criticizes draft IPR Enforcement

Peter Schaar, appointed 2 months ago as Germany’s chief Data Protection Commissioner, has severely criticized the draft Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, currently under discussion in the European Parliament and the Council. Interviewed by the online news service Heise, Schaar said the Directive brought along many risks, including deep cuts into the […]

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July 15, 2015 · Blogs

Dutch Minister reveals plans for dragnet surveillance

Ronald Plasterk, the Dutch Minister of the Interior, wants to make sure that the Dutch secret services have the powers to spy on the behaviour of all citizens and gain insight in all of their communications: phone calls, emails, chat messages and website visits. This much is clear after he published an update of the […]

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September 20, 2017 · Blogs

Dutch digital investigation: Pushing the boundaries of legality

The Dutch court is currently considering the case against Naoufal F, in which the police made use of several advanced digital investigation methods that challenge the boundaries of the law. A key issue in the case is the way in which the police gained access to and analysed the secure communication of suspects. Inez Weski, […]

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October 25, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

The GDPR Today – Stats, news and tools to make data protection a reality

25 October 2018 marks the launch of GDPR Today – your online hub for staying up-to-date with the (real) life of the new EU data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The project will monitor the implementation of the law across Europe by publishing statistics and sharing relevant news around key subjects.

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