July 4, 2007

EDRI signs "Keep The Core Neutral" petition

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRI) has joined more than 100 individuals and organizations from around the world in signing the petition “Keep The Core Neutral” urging ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) to resist efforts to evaluate applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) […]

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July 4, 2007

The Austrian government has postponed the law for data retention

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A spokesman of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology has confirmed that due to the flood of responses to the law proposal there is no way to have data retention ready before the deadline set by the directive. The ministry received a total of 90 […]

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October 18, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies

Dutch NRA: T-Mobile may continue to violate net neutrality

EDRi member Bits of Freedom asked the Dutch national regulatory authority, Authority for Consumers and Market (ACM), to test the mobile operator T-Mobile’s subscription against the new European rules that protect net neutrality, to verify whether its “Data-free Music” service infringes upon the principle of net neutrality. On 11 October 2017, the ACM ruled T-Mobile […]

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August 24, 2016 · Blogs

Freedom not Fear 2016: 14–17 October in Brussels

Freedom not Fear (FNF) is an annual meeting for civil rights activists from all across Europe. You are invited to join us on 14-17 October, organise discussions on your own topics, and use this opportunity to meet EU politicians! At FNF, civil society members meet in Brussels for four days to work for freedom in the […]

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July 16, 2008

Irish Human Rights Commission added to data retention challenge

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The High Court in Dublin has allowed the Irish Human Rights Commission to become a party to the data retention challenge being brought by Digital Rights Ireland. The Human Rights Commission, which is a state body, will be an amicus curiae (friend of the court) with the […]

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July 19, 2006

Draft Administrative Order on data retention in Denmark

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The long awaited draft administrative order on data retention in Denmark is now public. The draft, which implements the data retention provisions in the anti-terrorism law of June 2002, is currently submitted to a group of telecoms, business associations, NGOs, and public authorities for consultations with deadline […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

Austria creates new agency with unprecedented surveillance powers

In the midst of the biggest surveillance scandal of mankind and after years of criticism about rogue secret agencies spying on politicians and the government bodies supposed to control them, Austria is planning to establish a new secret agency. Austria’s draft state security law, “Staatsschutzgesetz”, grants new, far reaching surveillance powers while reducing oversight and […]

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September 7, 2016 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Iuridicum Remedium

Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation promoting human rights. It addresses issues of infringements of individual rights resulting from legislative actions and also deal with specific cases of human rights violations.

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June 2, 2004

New German proposal for mandatory data retention

According to the German e-zine Heise there is a new proposal for mandatory data retention in Germany. Just a few weeks ago, a final compromise was reached on the new Telecommunications Act, without any obligations for systematic data retention. But the Minister of the Interior, Otto Schily, is now said to work on a law […]

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December 19, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Poland: Privatised law enforcement or protecting users’ rights?

How to regulate content moderation policies of Facebook and other social media platforms is a challenge worldwide. In Poland, such a discussion has been ongoing for more than a year. A few months ago, the previous Minister of Digital Affairs Anna Strzezynska presented the proposal for a new bill, whose aim was to guarantee that […]

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July 18, 2007

New draft Copyright Act voted by the German deputies

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The second draft of the Copyright Act for the Information Society, including amendments proposed by the legal committee of the Parliament, was voted on 5 July by the majority of the German Bundestag and sent to Bundersrat for review. Although Brigitte Zypries (SPD), the Minister of Justice, […]

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July 30, 2008 · Blogs

EDRi receives a 15Keuros donation from XS4ALL and its customers

In the beginning of May 2008, a critical network error caused an Internet blackout for a great number of people in the Netherlands. The problem, by some said to be the biggest in internet history in Holland, caused over a hundred thousand DSL lines to be disconnected for up to four days, among them many […]

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