August 23, 2017 · Blogs

The privacy movement and dissent: Whistleblowing

This is the second blogpost of a series, originally published by EDRi member Bits of Freedom, that explains how the activists of a Berlin-based privacy movement operate, organise, and express dissent. The series is inspired by a thesis by Loes Derks van de Ven, which describes the privacy movement as she encountered it from 2013 […]

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May 24, 2006

Big Brother Awards Italy 2006

From 19 May to 20 May Florence has hosted the E-Privacy 2006 conference, organized as usual – by the Winston Smith Project with the help of several volunteers. This edition saw a much larger participation than 2005: the participants could hardly fit the hall of Palazzo Vecchio, and several people had to stand for the […]

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May 24, 2006

Application of the FOI law in Macedonia

The Parliament of Macedonia adopted the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Character in February 2006. NGO activists made some effort to make some quality changes to the proposed law and as a result some essential recommendations were accepted and implemented in the law. Although three months have past since the adoption of […]

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January 15, 2004

Modified Sony PlayStations allowed in Italy

In an important victory for Italian consumer rights, an Italian court has rejected the seizure of Sony PlayStation game consoles that use modified chips to permit unauthorised uses of the game systems. The case is one of the first to be brought in Italy under the new European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD). In December 2003, […]

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May 24, 2006 · Blogs

Recommending Reading

From 15 to 17 May the University of Illinois Chicago (USA) hosted the conference “FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content”. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of “First Monday”, the first peer-reviewer journal born on the Internet. The final day of the conference gathered a group that brainstormed over the first draft of the “Chicago […]

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May 21, 2008

BBA Awards Italy 2008

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Italian Big Brother Awards for 2008 were presented on 10 May 2008 during an e-privacy convention in Florence. The Italian jury is formed by 6 jurors who have to vote over 26 nominations, out of which 5 are for the positive award. The public institution award […]

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November 19, 2003

EU court of justices rules against personal data on website

Pointing to different persons on a website and making them recognisable by naming them or in any other manner is an act of processing of personal data and must therefore be dealt with under EU Directive 95/46/EC. That’s the substance of a recent judgement of the European Court of Justice (reference number C-101/01; case Bodil […]

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September 6, 2017 · Blogs

Netherlands: Sharing of travel data violated students’ privacy

It was all over the news on 22 August 2017: Translink, the company responsible for the Dutch public transport card “OV-chipkaart” had been passing student travel data to the Education Executive Agency responsible for student finance in the Netherlands (DUO). DUO uses this data to figure out whether students who claim to live on their […]

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November 19, 2003

Big brother awards presented in Hungary

On 6 November the Hungarian Big Brother Awards were presented to the police office of Budapest, to the small company Szabo Gardentechnics and to the under-secretary of the ministry of internal affairs. With the Big Brother Awards governments, companies and people are named and shamed for large scale privacy invasions. The Budapest police earned the […]

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November 2, 2011

Ukraine draft law on decency threatens freedom of speech

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ukraine: Gesetz zum Schutz der öffentlichen Ordnung bedroht Redefreiheit | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Ukraine_Gesetz_zum_Schutz_der_oeffentlichen_Ordnung_bedroht_Redefreiheit?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] The Ukrainian Parliament approved on 18 October 2011, in first reading, a draft law that proposes amendments to the present law on the Protection of Public Decency Law, which puts freedom of speech at risk. The draft […]

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November 19, 2003

RFID-blocker wins German idea-contest

The German civil rights and privacy-organisation FoeBuD is the winner of an idea-contest for a national awareness campaign about the infringement of civil liberties through new technologies. With the price of 15.000 Euro, FoeBuD wants to develop a ‘Dataprivatizer’, a tool to detect RFID’s, minuscule spy-chips that are increasingly built into consumer goods. RFID (Radio […]

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October 10, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online

EU Parliament’s anti-terrorism draft Report raises major concerns

While the recommendations of the final Report will not be binding, it sets a bad precedent for EU citizens prior to the elections, and its impact could be greater than that of most other political statements.

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