January 24, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

ENDitorial: Living as if being at an airport

The internet is starting to look more and more like an airport. Not only because of the ubiquitous surveillance, but also in the way that advertising is trying to steal our attention. Should we start working on a right to not be addressed?

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April 8, 2009

Big Brother Awards France 2009

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Big Brother Awards Frankreich 2009 | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1363] The French Big Brother Awards ceremony, or ‘Orwell Party’, was held this year on Saturday 4 April. The 2009 edition awarded 12 of the 35 nominees, in 6 categories, one of them being the positive ‘Voltaire Award’. Armand Mattelart, a renowned […]

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November 16, 2016 · Blogs

GFF launches its strategic litigation for civil rights

EDRi observer Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights) has launched its first case and published its website. GFF is a Berlin-based non-profit NGO founded in 2015. Its mission is to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe. GFF’s initial cases […]

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October 11, 2006 · Blogs

Digital Restriction Management – drm.info

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 3 October 2006, the first Anti-DRM day, a new collaborative information platform about the potential dangers of Digital Restriction Management (DRM) was launched. The DRM.info was initiated by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and is supported by a group of organisations and authors. The main […]

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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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