May 8, 2013 · Blogs

Dutch police wants to hack their citizens' devices

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Polizei will die Geräte ihrer Bürger hacken | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_Niederlande_Polizei_will_die_Geraete_ihrer_Buerger_hacken?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] The police should be allowed to hack into mobile phones and computers, even when these are located abroad. This is proposed in a draft law by the Dutch government on 2 May 2013. While this appears to be […]

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May 23, 2012

ENDitorial: Online child protection should not come hand-in-hand with censorship

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Schutz von Kindern im Internet sollte nicht mit Zensur einhergehen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_ENDitorial_Schutz_von_Kindern_im_Internet_sollte_nicht_mit_Zensur_einhergehen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] Earlier this month, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government would be considering default filtering of ‘adult content’ on the internet. The announcement came shortly after the release of a report by […]

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July 27, 2011

Slovakia: Court asks website to filter public procurement open data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowakei: Gericht fordert Filterung von Open Data zum öffentlichen Auftragswesen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Slowakei_Gericht_fordert_Filterung_von_Open_Data_zum_oeffentlichen_Auftragswesen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] Fair-Play Alliance (AFP), a Slovak non-governmental organization operating znasichdani.sk site, was required by a Bratislava District Court to take down from the website information related to certain public procurement contracts. The website was created in March […]

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September 7, 2011

ECHR to analyse Azeri bloggers' complaint against unjust imprisonment

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EGMR prüft Beschwerde von Azeri Bloggern wegen unrechtmäßiger Inhaftierung | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.17_EGMR_prueft_Beschwerde_von_Azeri_Bloggern_wegen_unrechtmaessiger_Inhaftierung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110907] The Azeri bloggers that have been imprisoned for one year and a half under alleged hooliganism accusations, have filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights which will decide whether their detention was in breach […]

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May 18, 2011

Dutch ISPs admit to using deep packet inspection

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische ISPs geben Nutzung von Deep Packet Inspection zu | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Niederlaendische_ISPs_geben_Nutzung_von_Deep_Packet_Inspection_zu] During an investors day on 10 May 2011 in London, Dutch Internet service provider KPN admitted to using deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, to determine the use of certain applications by its mobile internet customers. Vodafone soon […]

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September 26, 2007

ENDitorial: "Frattinising" isn't the only threat

So there’s a new verb in Europe: to frattinise. It first appeared in German, soon after in French and in Italian, it may creep around in other languages. Or it may be replaced by another one, next time someone else jumps on the same hideous bandwagon. On 10 September 2007 (quite deliberately, one day before […]

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December 17, 2008 · Blogs

German Federal Archives provides Wikipedia with 100 000 images

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Federal Archives has donated almost 100 000 images to the Wikimedia Commons, as part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the Weimar Republic, the German colonial era, the Third Reich […]

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February 25, 2009

The trial of The Pirate Bay in Sweden

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Pirate-Bay Prozess in Schweden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1303] The big, long and extremely mediatized trial filed on 31 January 2008 by Swedish prosecutors against the four Pirate Bay founders for “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws” started at Stockholm’s District Court, on 16 February 2009. The first day […]

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March 13, 2013 · Blogs

Hadopi wants to turn to privatised enforcement measures

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hadopi für eine Privatisierung der Rechtsdurchsetzung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.5_Hadopi_fuer_eine_Privatisierung_der_Rechtsdurchsetzung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130319] The French anti-piracy authority Hadopi has produced a new report on how to fight illegal streaming and downloading of copyrighted material. This is probably an attempt of ensuring its future as, since its installation in 2009, the authority has not […]

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July 27, 2016 · Blogs

German surveillance laws: placebos, poison, and also bad sport

The German parliament, the Bundestag, voted in favour of two contentious surveillance laws in July 2016. These are not only disappointing with regard to their content but also as cases of dubious parliamentary procedure. Those observing international politics may be familiar with the phrase “burying bad news”. The phrase gained notoriety through leaked emails from […]

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September 23, 2009

EESC opinion on the impact of social networking sites on citizens

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EESC-Stellungnahme über den Einfluß von Social Networking-Seiten auf die Bürger | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1528] The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) debated in a meeting organized on 17 September 2009 a new approach in regulating social networing websites, with the appointment of an EU Ombudsman to be responsible for the […]

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June 17, 2009

ENDitorial: Regulating online media in Azerbaijan?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: die Regulierung von online-Medien in Aserbeidschan | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1437] I was invited last week to a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan by the Council of Europe that organized together with the local National TV and Radio Council in order to discuss some issues related to the regulation of online […]

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