September 25, 2003

Reporters sans frontieres banned from WSIS

Reporters Sans Frontieres, a non-governmental organisation fighting for freedom of the press, was banned from further participation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). According to a letter from the Executive Director of the Summit, RSF was excluded for ‘administrative reasons’. The exclusion is in fact a direct result of a protest RSF […]

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September 25, 2003

Legal victory for German anonymiser AN.ON

On 15 September the Frankfurt District Court confirmed an earlier partial ruling in favour of the German web anonymiser AN.ON. According to this ruling, there was no legal ground for the request by the German Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation to record data about visitors to a specific website (see EDRI-gram 16 and 17). The […]

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August 1, 2012

Belarusian journalist detained for showing subway security flaws

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Weißrussland: Journalist wegen Berichts über Sicherheitsmängel in der U-Bahn festgenommen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.15_Weissrussland_Journalist_wegen_eines_Berichts_ueber_Sicherheitsmaengel_in_der_U-Bahn_festgenommen?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20120801] Several Belarusian journalists have been lately arrested for having shown flows in the security system of Belarus. The latest arrest, on 25 July 2012, was that of Vital Ruhayn on charges of hooliganism and obscene language […]

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April 12, 2006

Lie detectors in Russian airports

Lie detectors will be used in Russian airports as part of the security measures starting with July 2006. Meant to identify terrorists or other types of criminals, a lie-detecting device developed in Israel, known as “truth verifier,” will be first introduced in Moscow’s Domodedovo airport as early as July. The technology, already used by UK […]

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September 25, 2003 · Blogs

EDRI-gram in Italian

Thanks to an enthusiastic group of Italian-speaking activists, EDRI-gram is now also available in Italian. Similar to the Russian translation, the Italian translation will appear on-line a few days after the mailing. An archive is available from Nr. 10 onwards. Check out: http://www.autistici.org/edrigram/

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April 12, 2007

Free software needs to be considered in Italian public acquisitions

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the case filed by Associazione per il Software Libero (Assoli – Association for Free Software) to the Regional Administrative Tribunal of Lazio-Rome, the Italian Ministry of Work and Social Politics has withdrawn the call for tenders for Microsoft Licences. The Department of Technological Innovation of the […]

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April 3, 2014 · Blogs

European Parliament leads the world with open internet vote

The European Parliament today took a major step to protecting the open internet in Europe and to setting a global standard for online freedoms. Despite fierce lobbying from a coalition of the European Commission and former monopoly telecoms operators, Parliamentarians have supported the principle that the internet should remain open, competitive and democratic. “The European […]

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June 1, 2016 · Blogs

The lobby-tomy 7: Not all roads lead to privacy

Within the privacy world, different schools of thought exist. Connecting different viewpoints to a seemingly positive ideology is also sales technique. The new European data protection regulation is the most lobbied piece of legislation thus far. This is because the subject is very important and touches upon almost every aspect of our daily lives. Therefore […]

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October 8, 2003 · Blogs

50% of Slovakian websites to be wiped

The French E-zine Transfert.net reports that the Slovakian domain registry Euroweb is threatening to wipe more than 40.000 domain-names ending on .sk, eliminating half of the Slovakian web-presence. Slovakian domain owners have been given one month extra, until 3 November, to renew their registration under new commercial conditions. The first deadline expired on 1 October, […]

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April 12, 2007

Nominations for Big Brother Award Italy 2007 are now open

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The official start of the call for nominations for the Italian Big Brother Award (BBA) 2007 began on 2 April 2007 and will last until 30 April. In a scenario where privacy is all the time attacked by new technologies and doubtful initiatives to protect our “security”, […]

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June 1, 2016 · Blogs

Make-or-break summer for EU Net Neutrality – First stop: Vienna

Vienna, city of diplomacy and birthplace of countless international deals, will soon host crucial negotiations on the future of the open internet. On 3 June, EU Telecom regulators will gather in Vienna to discuss the implementation of new EU Net Neutrality laws. Following mass mobilisation in India and the USA, the expectations to deliver real […]

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October 8, 2003

Protest against super database in Romania

Human rights experts in Romania issued harsh criticism at the government resolution adopted last week to set up an Integrated Information System (SII), as they consider it as extremely dense, imprecise and giving room to arbitrary interpretation. The SII is a database that will centralise the information held by all public institutions regarding natural and […]

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