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March 25, 2009

Coalition of musicians against criminalizing downloaders

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Koalition von Musikern gegen die Kriminalisierung von Downloadern | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1350] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Коалиција на музичари против лицата… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1414/4/lang,mk/] On 11 March 2009, during its inaugural meeting, the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) including 140 of UK biggest rock and pop stars, expressed concern […]

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January 10, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Commission claims that general monitoring is not general monitoring

Will everything we do on the internet be monitored and checked against by a non-transparent mechanism that decides what can be published? It is a real threat, and currently it is coming from an area that patently does not require such draconian measures: EU copyright law. This threat is a peculiar one, because there are […]

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April 8, 2009

Second PrivacyOS Conference

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zweite PrivacyOS Konferenz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1360] Meetings between researchers from universities with representatives from industry, data protection authorities, standardizers from W3C and ISO and NGOs to discuss privacy challenges and develop privacy infrastructures represent the idea behind the European Privacy Open Space. The second PrivacyOS event was held in […]

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March 9, 2011

Final call for petition on government use of citizens' biometrics

This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Последен повик за петиција за владина.. | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/mk/vesti/edri/1894-posleden-povik-za-peticija-za-vladinata-upotreba-na-biometriski-podatoci-na-gragjanite] Deutsch: [Petition gegen die Nutzung biometrischer Daten durch den Staat | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_Petition_gegen_Nutzung_biometrischer_Daten] By means of a petition, the international Alliance ‘Hands off biometrics’ will urge the Council of Europe to start an investigation on the collection and storage of biometric […]

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November 18, 2015 · Blogs

UK Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: Missed opportunity

The UK Government has published a draft of the long-awaited Investigatory Powers Bill. Since the Snowden revelations, civil liberty groups have been calling for a new law that would restrain the UK intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The UK government, however, has been calling for increased surveillance powers since the failure of the draft Communications […]

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March 23, 2011

French DPA fines Google for its Street View case with 100k Euro

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische Datenschutzbehörde straft Google Street View ab | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.6_Frankreich_Geldstrafe_f%C3%BCr_Google_Street_View] CNIL (the French DPA – Data Protection Authority) has recently performed a series of inspections related to the conformity with the French legislation of Google’s gathering data from Wi-Fi networks for its Google Maps, Street View and Latitude services […]

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October 8, 2008

RapidShare needs to check every file for copyright infringement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Hamburg court in Germany has ruled that the free file-hosting service RapidShare.de is not doing enough to combat piracy, so they should check content for copyright infringement before it is made available on the Internet . The decision was given in the legal conflict between RapidShare […]

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October 8, 2008

Serbia: Conference on Regulation of online Freedom of Expression

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 8 and 9 September 2008, the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade hosted the international conference on regulation of freedom of expression on the Internet, organized by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) of the University of Oxford. EDRi-member Metamorphosis […]

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April 22, 2009

European Parliament ITRE committee votes against the 3 strikes

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ITRE-Komitee des Europäischen Parlaments stimmt gegen die 3 Treffer | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1369] The ITRE – Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament (EP) has voted in the evening of 21 April 2009 on the Trautmann report and has reintroduced amendment 138. However some of the amendments approved […]

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October 22, 2014 · Blogs

Web-blocking in Austria – law with the law taken out

Following the European Court of Justice ruling on the UPC Telekabel v Constantin in April 2014, Austrian internet access providers have started “blocking” several websites. In the case in question, the Court established that an injunction may be imposed on an internet access provider (ISP) “prohibiting an internet service provider from allowing” its customers access […]

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December 2, 2015 · Blogs

EDPS Opinion: Effective data protection needed for “big data”

On 19 November 2015, the European Data Protection Supervisor published an Opinion on the challenges of “big data”. The Opinion is entitled “A call for transparency, user control, data protection by design and accountability”. The title alone shows how extensive and complicated the issue of big data really is, and squeezing all of these issues […]

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February 15, 2012

RFID – a dangerous fashion trend highlighted on German streets by FoeBuD

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [RFID – FoeBuD entdeckt gefährlichen Modetrend auf Deutschlands Straßen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_RFID_FoeBuD_entdeckt_gefaehrlichen_Modetrend_auf_Deutschlands_Strassen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] On 11 January 2012, EDRi member FoeBuD staged an event on a shopping street in Bielefeld, Germany, to raise awareness about RFID tags (“spy chips”) in clothing. FoeBuD played an important role in putting this issue on […]

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