May 9, 2012

Slovakia: Mandatory e-forms work only on software from one vendor

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowakei: Verpflichtende Web-Lösung funktioniert nur mit Software eines einzigen Herstellers | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.9_Slowakei_Verpflichtende_Web-Loesung_funktioniert_nur_mit_Software_eines_einzigen_Herstellers?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120509] In Slovakia, a law introduced to reduce red tape has led to injustice. The state has mandated electronic means as the only way of fulfilling certain statutory obligations. However the dedicated web solution excludes some citizens […]

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March 8, 2017 · Blogs

Denmark: Our data retention law is illegal, but we keep it for now

On 2 March 2017, the Danish Minister of Justice appeared before the Legal Affairs Committee of the Danish Parliament to answer questions about the implications of the Tele2 data retention ruling (joined cases C-203/15 and C-698/15) from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In his statement to the committee, the Minister started […]

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May 7, 2003

European Court of Justice rules on copyright fees

A recent verdict from the European Court of Justice implies that all EU countries should choose the same legislative translation of ‘equitable remuneration’, a crucial formula in the European Copyright Directive. Weighing the case of the Dutch copyright collecting society SENA versus the national broadcasting organisation NOS, the Court explains how the 1992 EU directive […]

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January 18, 2006 · Blogs

New editor EDRI-gram

The EDRI-gram fundraising campaign has been very successful. Thanks to the kind donations of both individuals and companies, EDRI is confident it will be able to afford 24 editions of EDRI-gram in 2006. Pledges for support will be collected in February 2006, after EDRI is sure it has guarantees for the full amount of 3.500 […]

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May 7, 2003

Shareholders give Big Brother Award to Bayer AG

Critical shareholders of the German medicine-company Bayer AG have presented the Big Brother Award to the board during the annual shareholders meeting in Cologne on 25 April 2003. The Award was given to the company in October 2002 for demanding a drug test from every employee applying for in-company training. Bayer did not bother to […]

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June 1, 2011

OSCE findings on Estonian e-voting

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [OSZE: Untersuchungsergebnisse zum estnischen E-Voting | http://bit.ly/jJOHnA] In its report of 16 May 2011, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) found Estonia’s March 6 parliamentary elections, including the Internet voting, as trustworthy, although several elections […]

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May 23, 2012

From talk to action – EP Committees to vote on ACTA next week

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Den Worten müssen Taten folgen – Kommende ACTA-Abstimmungen im EP | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_Den_Worten_muessen_Taten_folgen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] After months of machinations, delays and politics, it appears that there is no more scope for delay and all four of the Committees giving Opinions on ACTA will finally vote next week. This will be a […]

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January 16, 2008 · Blogs

Inclusive E-government in Western Balkans

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Most of the participants in the workshops on inclusive e-government that took place in the capitals of six Western Balkan countries, considered that their countries have established very few mechanisms for e-inclusion and interoperability, even though the interest in e-Government development is high. The workshops took place […]

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March 9, 2016 · Blogs

UK’s mass surveillance law being rushed through legislative process

Last week, the UK government published the Investigatory Powers Bill, a new surveillance law that has been heavily criticised by privacy and free speech activists, the technology industry, lawyers and academics. A draft version of the Bill was published in November 2015 and scrutinised by three parliamentary committees. Between them, they made 123 recommendations for […]

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May 21, 2003 · Blogs

Romania forbids free access to online pornography

Romania has adopted a new law to make free access to pornography illegal. Online pornography must always be protected by a password, and should always charge a fee per minute, to be declared with the fiscal authorities. Free access is explicitly forbidden in a law formally adopted on 20 May 2003. The law has raised […]

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February 2, 2006

OECD Conference on the Future Digital Economy

The OECD held a two day conference ( 30-31 Juanuary 2006) in Rome on “The Future of Digital Economy – Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access” with over 350 participants from companies, lobby groups, NGOs and governments. These stakeholders debated the issue and discussed how government policy should respond to the change in content production, […]

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May 21, 2003

New cybercrime legislation in Romania

Romania has implemented the Cybercrime Convention in Title III of the Anticorruption law no 161/2003, published in the Official Monitor no 279 from 21 April 2003. Romania signed the convention in the end of 2001. There are no provisions regarding data retention, even though in some previous versions of the law there was an obligation […]

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