November 16, 2016 · Blogs

GFF launches its strategic litigation for civil rights

EDRi observer Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights) has launched its first case and published its website. GFF is a Berlin-based non-profit NGO founded in 2015. Its mission is to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe. GFF’s initial cases […]

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December 2, 2015 · Blogs

EU Council on Data Retention: “Can we please just have it back?”

One and a half years after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Data Retention Directive, the idea of having an EU data retention instrument is back on the table. On 8 September 2015, officials from the European Commission (EC) told EDRi that, despite the evidence that we provided of the […]

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August 25, 2004

Call for participation: data retention and copyright

The deadline is nearing for two important consultation rounds from the European Commission, on mandatory data retention and on copyright. European Digital Rights is working hard on a thorough answer on the EU plans for mandatory retention of all internet and telephony traffic data. The document will be made publicly available on the EDRI website, […]

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October 22, 2014 · Blogs

Web-blocking in Austria – law with the law taken out

Following the European Court of Justice ruling on the UPC Telekabel v Constantin in April 2014, Austrian internet access providers have started “blocking” several websites. In the case in question, the Court established that an injunction may be imposed on an internet access provider (ISP) “prohibiting an internet service provider from allowing” its customers access […]

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November 16, 2016 · Blogs

EU copyright reform proposal discussed in Romania

On 10 November 2016, EDRi member Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet (ApTI) and Internet Advertising Bureau România (IAB România) organised a debate regarding the European Commission’s copyright reform proposal and its impact on digital rights. The goal of the debate was to communicate the participants’ positions to the Romanian representatives taking part in the European […]

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October 11, 2006 · Blogs

Digital Restriction Management – drm.info

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 3 October 2006, the first Anti-DRM day, a new collaborative information platform about the potential dangers of Digital Restriction Management (DRM) was launched. The DRM.info was initiated by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and is supported by a group of organisations and authors. The main […]

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February 13, 2013 · Blogs

Big Brother Awards 2013 Bulgaria

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bulgarien: Big Brother Awards 2013 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.3_Bulgarien_Big_Brother_Awards_2012?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130224] EDRi member ISOC Bulgaria and the Access to Information Program organized the Big Brother Awards for 2012. This year the “winners” are the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria – for lack of action in changing the way special […]

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March 13, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices

The art of dodging questions – Facebook’s privacy policies

Remember in April 2018, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, we sent a series of 13 questions to Facebook about their users’ data exploitation policy. Months later, Facebook got back to us with answers. Here is a critical analysis of their response. Recognising people’s face without biometric data? The first questions (1a and 1b) related […]

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February 13, 2013 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Licences for Europe and fight club… only one rule

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Europäische Lizenzen und der Fight Club … es gibt nur eine Regel | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.3_ENDitorial_Europaeische_Lizenzen_und_der_Fight_Club?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130224] There was a moment in November 2012 when even the most cynical observers of the European Commission were hopeful of an effective reform of copyright. Commissioner Barnier gave a speech where he demonstrated […]

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October 20, 2005

Very tight vote in UK Lower House on ID card

The UK ID card proposals have come closer than ever to defeat in their final House of Commons vote. The government’s majority shrunk from the previous vote by 11 votes to 25, despite several concessions over cost and claims to improve privacy protection. The legislation now moves to the House of Lords, where it is […]

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January 29, 2003 · Blogs

Action against governmental censorship in Germany

EDRI-member FITUG (Forderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft) launched an urgent public campaign against government censorship of websites. A year ago, the district government of Dusseldorf county in Germany passed orders to more than 80 internet providers to block access from their users to some foreign websites. Providers and civil rights groups united in protest against the […]

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March 13, 2019 · Blogs | Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Record number of calls to the EU Parliament against upload filters

With just two weeks to go until the final vote on upload filters in the European Parliament, one hundred MEPs have pledged to vote against Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Directive. Many citizens feel like their legitimate fears about the future of the internet are not taken seriously as lawmakers insult them as being […]

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