March 28, 2012

CoE's Internet Governance strategy places emphasis on users' rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Internet Governance: Europarat will Rechte der Internetnutzer stärken | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_Internet_Governance_Europarat_will_Rechte_der_Internetnutzer_staerken?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328] On 15 March 2012, the 47 Council of Europe (CoE) member states adopted an Internet governance strategy to protect and promote human rights, the rule of law and pluralistic democracy online. The strategy, which covers 40 lines of […]

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May 19, 2010

Macedonia: New Law on Electronic Communications Proposed

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mazedonien: Neues Gesetz für elektronische Kommunikation verabschiedet | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1936] The amendments to the Law on electronic communications would allow the Ministry of Interior to play the “Big Brother” role, concluded the opposition parties during the debate on this bill that took place in the Assembly on 11 May […]

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November 6, 2013 · Blogs

Slovakia: Court Orders An ISP To Stop Breaching Net Neutrality

The first instance court – District Court in Bratislava I, issued on 24 October 2013 a preliminary injunction prohibiting continuance of net neutrality breach by one of the Internet access providers. The injunction was granted in a ongoing unfair competition law case between two ISPs, Slovak Antik and Dutch UPC. The case already started in […]

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January 14, 2015 · Blogs

PEN report reveals concerns about the impact of mass surveillance

On 5 January 2015, PEN American Center published a report “Global chilling: The impact of mass surveillance on international writers”. The report introduces the results of a survey of writers, to investigate how mass surveillance influences their thinking, research and writing, as well as their views of government surveillance by the US and its impact […]

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December 5, 2005

EDRI and PI call on EP to reject data retention

European Digital Rights and Privacy International are urgently calling on the individual members of the European Parliament to reject the misguided compromise proposal on data retention. Party leaders of the christian-democrats and social-democrats in the parliament have agreed behind closed doors to allow for mandatory data retention of telephony and internet data for a period […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

European consumers attitudes on privacy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einstellung europäischer Verbraucher zum Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Einstellung_europaeischer_Verbraucher_zum_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Some interesting results from a quantitative and qualitative analysis made by the EU-funded CONSENT project to find out about the consumers’ attitudes awareness of privacy issues online and service providers’ practices were presented at the final conference of the project, that […]

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December 5, 2005

Post-WSIS civil society letter to Kofi Annan

After the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Tunis between 16 and 19 November 2005, a large number of attending civil society organisations decided to write another letter to Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations. During the WSIS the Tunisian government committed serious attacks on human rights and the right to […]

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December 5, 2007

IP rules to be changed to give access to environmental technology

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 20 November 2007, the Members of the European Parliament (EP) approved a report that asks for the revision of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in order to allow the compulsory licensing of patented environmental technologies. The European Parliament […]

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December 5, 2005

Cryptography almost banned in the Czech Republic

The Czech Lower House recently approved of a law introducing a new Penal Code, including a ratification of the Cybercrime convention. The original version, prepared by the Ministry of Justice, contained a provision that would criminalise hacking and cracking IT systems, but due to misguided and very unclear wording it also criminalised legitimate activities such […]

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June 2, 2010

ENDitorial: EP Legal Affairs adopts incoherent report on IPR enforcement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Rechtsausschuss des EP verabschiedet inkohärenten Urheberrechtsbericht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1975] This week, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament adopted a far-reaching, contradictory and, at times, fundamentalist non-legislative report on enforcement of intellectual property rights. The Committee report takes some quite extreme, apocalyptic and sometimes almost comically absurd […]

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April 25, 2012

European Court of Justice ruling in the Bonnier case

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs in der Rechtssache Bonnier | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Entscheidung_des_Europaeischen_Gerichtshofs_in_der_Rechtssache_Bonnier?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP) Perfect Telecommunication to court, to obtain an order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked […]

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February 22, 2017 · Blogs

New legal framework for predictive policing in Denmark

After the terrorist attack in Copenhagen in February 2015, the Danish government presented an action plan to strengthen the data analysis capacity of the police and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET). The action plan, called “A Strong Guard against Terror”, specifically mentions monitoring of social media posts in order to discover possible terrorist […]

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