August 27, 2014 · Blogs

Google now supports AND opposes the “right to be forgotten”

In April 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled, unremarkably, that Google should amend search results that are unfair to individual users – if they are clearly out of date and irrelevant, for example. Google’s reaction was ferocious – it launched a major press campaign to try to undermine the legal basis for the ruling, […]

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September 10, 2014 · Blogs

The Principles Week of Action: A world without mass surveillance

Between 15 and 19 September, several digital rights organisations, including EDRi and many of its members, will be celebrating the first anniversary of the 13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance. The Principles were first launched in the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 20 September 2013. Drawing on international law […]

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February 7, 2012

ACTA Survival Guide for Website Owners

In order to counter the spreading misinformation, we are providing a how-to with short explanations regarding different practical problems related to ACTA. This guide looks at the risks that ACTA creates for websites, particularly e-commerce sites. To stay online, a website owner just needs to make sure that their site contains nothing which might cause […]

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October 11, 2006

ENDitorial : PNR & Institutional Mechanisms of Privacy Protection

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A small detail on the EU-US agreement over the transfer of air passenger name records (PNR), and a non-related statement by US president George W. Bush, taken together give a nice highlight on the institutional mechanisms of privacy protection. EU Commissioner Frattini told the press on 6 […]

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November 30, 2016 · Blogs

The post truth of “threat intelligence”

In the context of identifying the root cause of security breaches or attacks, we often see the threats emerging from weapons such as botnets, viruses, malware, etc. However, the biggest network security threats can also reside within a company. For this reason, modern techniques of network security forensics – the process of identifying the root […]

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December 17, 2014 · Blogs

Another Christmas (copyright) wish list for 2015

The copyright reform announced by both Andrus Ansip, Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, and Günther Oettinger, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, is going to be one of the core priorities of the new Commission’s Digital Agenda in 2015. Ansip has shown signs of interest to tackle copyright […]

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April 24, 2013 · Blogs

25 April: Citizens stripped by EU Parliament proposals warns civil rights coalition

The coalition warns that proposals in the EU Parliament could strip citizens of their privacy rights A coalition of civil rights organizations is holding a press conference on 25 April at 11am to urgently draw attention to a report which shows the current danger to EU data protection. The coalition is worried that data protection […]

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June 19, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

German Big Brother Awards – one “winner” reacts and appears

The German Big Brother Awards (BBA) gala was held on 8 June 2019 in Bielefeld, Germany. Organised annually since 2000 by EDRi member Digitalcourage, this year’s gala was the third to be streamed live in English in addition to the original German. For the second time, the venue was Bielefeld theatre, where the stage set […]

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May 7, 2003

Evaluation of Directive on Electronic Pay Services

In their formal evaluation of the European Directive on Electronic Pay-Services (98/84/EC), the European Commission strongly promotes legal measures against copyright infringements. The report, published 2 weeks ago, evaluates the implementation and enforcement of the directive by member states and candidate countries, from its adaptation in November 1998 through to December 2002. Part of the […]

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April 23, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

EU Council Presidency rushes to impose new copyfails in the EU

The discussions on the Censorship Machine proposal (a.k.a. upload filters) in the EU has suddenly speeded up.

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June 24, 2020 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

French Avia law declared unconstitutional: what does this teach us at EU level?

On 18 June, the French Constitutional Council, the constitutional authority in France, declared the main provisions of the “Avia law” unconstitutional. France’s legislation on hate speech was adopted in May despite being severely criticised from nearly all sides: the European Commission, the Czech Republic, digital rights organisations and LBGTQI+, feminist and antiracist organisations.

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September 21, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

59% of polled EU citizens decry anti-terror upload filters. You should too.

Following disruptions due to the COVID-19 crisis, the negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers on the Terrorist Content Regulation are resuming this week.

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