February 13, 2013 · Blogs

Big Brother Awards 2013 Bulgaria

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bulgarien: Big Brother Awards 2013 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.3_Bulgarien_Big_Brother_Awards_2012?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130224] EDRi member ISOC Bulgaria and the Access to Information Program organized the Big Brother Awards for 2012. This year the “winners” are the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria – for lack of action in changing the way special […]

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October 20, 2005

Very tight vote in UK Lower House on ID card

The UK ID card proposals have come closer than ever to defeat in their final House of Commons vote. The government’s majority shrunk from the previous vote by 11 votes to 25, despite several concessions over cost and claims to improve privacy protection. The legislation now moves to the House of Lords, where it is […]

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March 13, 2019 · Blogs | Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Record number of calls to the EU Parliament against upload filters

With just two weeks to go until the final vote on upload filters in the European Parliament, one hundred MEPs have pledged to vote against Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Directive. Many citizens feel like their legitimate fears about the future of the internet are not taken seriously as lawmakers insult them as being […]

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February 27, 2013 · Blogs

EDRi celebrates its 10th anniversary

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi feiert seinen 10. Geburtstag | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.4_EDRi_feiert_seinen_10_Geburtstag?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130227] From 2 to 4 March 2013, European Digital Rights (EDRi) will hold its Annual General Assembly and celebrate its 10th anniversary. In early 2003, EDRi was registered as a non-profit organisation in Brussels in order to create an European organisation that […]

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October 20, 2005

Business Software Alliance lobbies against copyright levies

The Business Software Alliance has issued a report on the growing online music market. According to the BSA, in western Europe alone it is expected to grow more than 500% by 2008 to 559.1 million euro, from 106.4 million euro this year. The BSA states most of this content is protected by digital rights management, […]

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October 25, 2006

WSIS follow up at UNESCO

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16-19 October 2006 UNESCO conducted the first multi-stakeholder consultations on the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Action Lines C3 (access to information), C7 (e-learning), C9 (media) and C10 (ethics) at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. UNESCO is one of the lead […]

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October 25, 2006

Illegal video surveillance in Austria

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During Infolaw legal forum on 17 October, Margot Artner, a Viennese lawyer, expressed concerns regarding the existence of about 100 000 illegal monitoring systems with recording functions in Austria. The estimation was based on information obtained from vendors of monitoring software and installing technicians. Artner has waited […]

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April 22, 2009

ENDitorial: Why "Olivennes Bill" wouldn't work in Italy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Warum „Olivennes Gesetz“ in Italien nicht funktionieren würde | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1380] “Olivennes Bill” (named after the French lobbyist who proposed it, also known as Hadopi law or 3 strikes law) on copyright protection has been blocked by the French Parliament a couple of days ago (but there is […]

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March 27, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online

GDPR incompatibility – the blind spot of the copyright debate

The debate around the Copyright Directive reform has been intense. Former Article 13, which became Article 17 in the text voted by the European Parliament on 26 March, created the greatest controversy between stakeholders arguing about the so-called “value gap” in the creative sectors, upload filters, and a new platform liability regime, among others issues. […]

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September 22, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Inclusive technologies

Building a coalition for Digital Dignity

In 2020 EDRi started to build the ‘Digital Dignity Coalition’, a group of organisations and activists active at the EU level dedicated to upholding rights in digital spaces and resisting harmful uses of technology. We’ve been organising to understand and resist how technological practices differentiate, target and experiment on communities at the margins - this article sets out what we’ve done so far.

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December 16, 2015 · Blogs

Copyright reform: Restoring the facade of a decrepit building

“The Special Rapporteur also proposes to expand copyright exceptions and limitations to empower new creativity, enhance rewards to authors, increase educational opportunities, preserve space for non-commercial culture and promote inclusion and access to cultural works.” These recommendations come from the 2014 report on Copyright policy and the right to science and culture, from the UN […]

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November 8, 2006

Czech Republic bestowed Big Brother Awards for the second time

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 30 October 2006 in Prague the Big Brother Awards for the most egregious data privacy transgressions in the Czech Republic were bestowed for the second time. The event organised by the NGO Iuridicum Remedium was quite a big success reported by many national media. The chief […]

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