December 5, 2005

Launch of Digital Rights Ireland

Digital Rights Ireland will formally launch at a press conference in the Conference Room in Pearse Street Library, at 11-am on Tuesday 6 December. The group has been formed to defend civil, human and legal rights in a digital age. Digital Rights Ireland will be discussing its mission, and current developments in relation to Data […]

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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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April 11, 2012

New CoE recommendations for human rights in Internet services

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue Empfehlungen des Europarats zur Wahrung der Menschenrechte im Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.7_Neue_Empfehlungen_des_Europarats_zur_Wahrung_der_Menschenrechte_im_Internet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120411] On 4 April 2012, the Council of Europe adopted two recommendations made by the Committee of Ministers related to the protection of human rights, particularly the freedom of expression, freedom of association, access to information and […]

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December 4, 2013 · Blogs

European Parliament Will Rule On Net Neutrality

EDRi has waited for years for concrete proposals to enshrine the net neutrality principle in the European Union law. Since 2010, there has also been an increasing number of calls from the European Parliament to guarantee net neutrality. Finally, in September 2013, the European Commission has proposed a draft Regulation which aims at protecting the […]

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June 5, 2019 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Facebook fails to avoid CJEU judgment on NSA case

On 31 May 2019, the Irish Supreme Court decided over an unprecedented application by Facebook. The decision is part of an ongoing procedure on Facebook’s involvement with the United States Nationa Security Agency (NSA) under the so-called “PRISM” surveillance program before the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) and the Irish High Court.

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December 5, 2005

NL supreme court ruling on internet anonymity

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled on 25 November 2005 in a landmark case against the freedom of internet users to express their opinion anonymously. The Supreme Court upheld a previous court verdict in which internetportal Lycos was forced to hand over the personal data of one of its subscribers to the Dutch stamp […]

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April 12, 2012 · Blogs

Is the G8 already working on a new ACTA?

Czech language version A leaked G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and USA) document gives the strongest indication yet that the leading countries behind ACTA are working on the basis that the Agreement is now in serious trouble and needs to be fundamentally re-thought and re-worked – and in its current form […]

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February 15, 2017 · Blogs

Citizens’ rights undermined by flawed CETA deal

On 15 February 2017, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). This concludes the process at the EU level. The EU Member States will now have to ratify the agreement, without having a right to make changes to the text. CETA creates significant risks for citizens’ fundamental rights, especially […]

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June 5, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Czech Constitutional Court rejects complaint on data retention

Czech EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) has fought for 14 years against Czech implementation of the controversial EU data retention Directive which was declared invalid by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). After years of campaigning and many hard legislative battles, the fight has finally come to an end: on 22 May […]

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February 10, 2016 · Blogs

Holland and India prohibit zero-rating: the first of many?

The principle of net neutrality requires that internet access providers carry data without discrimination on the basis of origin, destination or type of data. Net neutrality prohibits telecoms operators from blocking or degrading content applications or services. From a telecom operator’s perspective, the goal is to move away from the “any-to-any” principle that is a […]

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February 15, 2017 · Blogs

Lead Parliamentarian for Culture Committee defends upload filtering

On 6 February 2017, the Parliamentarian in charge of the Copyright Directive for the European Parliament (EP) Committee for Culture and Education (CULT), Marc Joulaud, published his draft Opinion on the proposal for the Directive. As we described in our previous blogposts (here, here and here) the European Commission’s proposal has not fulfilled hopes for […]

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April 9, 2003 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Danish committee on citizens IT-rights

The Danish ministry of science and technology has mandated a committee on citizens IT-rights. The committee has representatives from various ministries, consumer organisations, the IT-business sector and civil society. EDRi-member Digital Rights has participated in the committee since it started its work in September 2002. The aim of the committee is to give recommendations to […]

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