November 23, 2006

ENDitorial : E-society in SE Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) More then 350 participants from 10 different countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Czech Republic and Ireland) participated at the second International E-Society.Mk Conference organized by Metamorphosis Foundation in Skopje from 15-17 November 2006. The focus of the conference was regional approach […]

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January 25, 2017 · Blogs

Germany: Fighting the anti-whistleblower provision

EDRi observer Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte’s (GFF) most recent Constitutional Court case in Germany concerns an anti-whistleblowing provision threatening the freedom of the press. Part-time journalists and bloggers, as well as the legal or IT experts on which journalists rely, now risk a prison sentence of up to three years for handling “leaked” data.

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January 26, 2016 · Blogs

Civil society and telecom industry urge EU policy makers to safeguard broadband competition

Hosting an event at the European Parliament, the #NetCompetition alliance restated the dangers that a lack of competition in broadband markets will have on consumer welfare and innovation. The event highlighted the problematic practices that broadband providers in monopolistic and oligopolistic markets impose on Internet data usage. Hosted by MEP Lara Comi, the event featured […]

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November 27, 2005

Petition closed

The EDRI and XS4ALL petition against data retention is closed and has been offered to Jean Marie Cavada, the chairman of the Europarliament committee on civil liberties and Alexander Alvaro, the Europarl rapporteur on data retention. The petition has attracted over 58.000 signatures, of which over 21.000 from the Netherlands (where the campaign was launched), […]

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December 19, 2014 · Blogs

EDRi Awards 2014

For the first time this year and with great solemnity, EDRi presents its first annual awards. 1. The “Humpty Dumpty Award” for the most silly “statistics”. Winner: Deutsche Telekom, for its “One Million Cyber Attacks per day”. This statistic was not plagiarised by any of DT’s employees. Honourable Mention: TERA for its “study” on losses […]

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November 20, 2013 · Blogs

Failure Of “Licenses For Europe”

Ahead of the last meeting of the “Licences for Europe” initiative, EDRi together with other four European civil rights organisations – Centrum Cyfrowe, Kennisland, Modern Poland Foundation and La Quadrature du Net – released, on 13 November 2013, the following joint press release reaffirming the urgent need of an European Copyright reform. Today, the Licenses […]

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May 22, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference | Freedom of expression online

Christchurch call − pseudo-counter-terrorism at the cost of human rights?

The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Arden showed compassionate and empathetic leadership in her response to the Christchurch terrorist attack on a mosque in her country on 15 March 2019. On 16 May in Paris, Arden and the French President Emmanuel Macron co-launched the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist […]

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January 27, 2016 · Blogs

TiSA: European Parliament ready to defend digital rights?

On 18 January 2016, the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee (INTA) adopted a non-legislative report, that will be subject to a vote by the whole Parliament on 3 February 2015. Similar to TTIP, harsh criticism has been expressed on the nature and content of the TiSA negotiations. While the INTA committee remained silent about certain […]

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Are the US-EU data agreements still alive?

Late on the first day of Computers, Data Protection and Privacy (CPDP) Conference on 25 January 2017, word came through that US President Donald Trump had issued Executive Order (EO), “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States”, which included the following: Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, […]

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June 17, 2009

Finland: Complaints not allowed for the Police child-porn censorship list

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnland: Beschwerden über die Kinderpornografieliste der Polizei nicht erlaubt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1433] The Helsinki Administrative court decided on 20 May 2009 that complaints lodged in regards to the child-porn censorship list maintained by the Finnish Police are not allowed. The case originates from one Finnish activist’s “battle” against the […]

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March 21, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

EU Council indecision on ePrivacy is bad for Europe

In 2017, the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which is part of the Department of Commerce, warned of the “chill on discourse and economic activity” caused by privacy and security fears.

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December 5, 2005

Polish plans for 15 years mandatory data retention

In Poland, the parliamentary leader of the new social-right governing party ‘Law and Justice’, Przemyslaw Gosiewski, has called for a new law to introduce mandatory telephony data retention for 15 years. His call followed an article the day before, on 22 November 2005, in the leading newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza with a cry from local investigators […]

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