October 21, 2009

France pushes the introduction of EDVIGE project through the back door

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich verwirft die Einführung des EDVIGE-Projekts | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1553] The French Government produced two new decrees published in the Official Journal on 18 October 2009 which actually resurrect the rejected EDVIGE plan to create an intelligence database with personal data. By-passing the French Parliament, the Minister of Interior Brice […]

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April 9, 2008

Fingerprinting the fingerprint proponent

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) EDRi-member Chaos Computer Club (CCC) – Germany has published in the latest issue of their magazine Die Datenschleuder the fingerprint of one of the best known proponents of digital fingerprints in passports – Mr. Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Minister of Internal Affairs. The fingerprint has been printed […]

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June 16, 2010

Digital Agenda Commissioner Kroes publicly supporting open standards

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommissarin für die Digitale Agenda unterstützt offene Standards | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1999] Macedonian: [Комесарот за Дигиталната агенда… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/komesarot-za-digitalnata-agenda-niki-kros-javno-gi-poddrza-otvorenite-standardi.html] On 10 June 2010, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes addressed the Open Forum Europe 2010 Summit on interoperability and open standards, stating she was planning to overhaul […]

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January 28, 2009

Privacy and data protection in the Netherlands in 2008

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The year 2008 did not improve the course of privacy and data protection in the Netherlands. The public debate focused on data collection systems related to fundamental aspects of Dutch citizens’ lives, such as communications, health and movement. Unfortunately, there are no signs that concerns or incidental […]

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January 31, 2007

ENDitorial : Constitution by criminalisation

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Instead of scouts cookies, evildoers sell copied Britney Spears CDs and counterfeit medicines manufactured using child labour, and that must be stopped, in particular since legit Britney Spears CDs cause enough harm as it is and everyone is tired of Viagra spam. The Criminalisation Directive, also known […]

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June 7, 2006 · Blogs

Dutch Gamer in US intelligence spotlight

A Dutch gamer has become subject of US intelligence and widespread international media attention because of a self-made video-game movie. The video consists of footage of the game Battlefield 2 spiced up with different music and voiceovers. It was presented on 4 May 2006 at a meeting of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence […]

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November 21, 2005

Panel on freedom of expression

Together with the internet blogging project Global Voices online, the Dutch NGO Hivos organised a two day program on 17 and 18 November on freedom of expression. On the first day two panels and two lectures were scheduled, the second day was devoted to a workshop on secure communication tools for NGOs. It was only […]

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June 2, 2010

Danish supreme court upholds injunction to block the Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Oberster Dänischer Gerichtshof bestätigt einstweilige Verfügung zur Sperre von Pirate Bay | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1968] The Danish suppreme court took its decision on 27 May 2010 on the recourse to the decision issued by the High Court (In Danish: landsretten) November 2008. The latter was the in fact the appeal […]

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December 16, 2009

EDPS worries about extended powers of agency running EC databases

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Datenschutzbeauftragter sorgt sich um erweiterte Befugnisse der Agentur, die Datenbanken der Kommission betreibt| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1631] Although not opposed to the creation by the European Commission of a security agency that would be in charge of EU visa and asylum databases, EDPS Peter Hustinx issued an opinion on 7 December […]

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April 20, 2021 · Blogs | Open letters | Information democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI)

Civil society calls for stronger protections for fundamental rights in Artificial Intelligence law

In light of the recently leaked draft of the Regulation on A European Approach For Artificial Intelligence from January 2021 , EDRi and 14 of our members signed an open letter to the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to underline the importance of ensuring the necessary protections for fundamental rights in the new regulation.

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August 25, 2010

Azeri bloggers appeal rejected by the Supreme Court

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einspruch von Azeri Bloggern vom Höchstgericht abgewiesen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2130] The Azerbaijani Supreme Court took a disturbing decision on 19 August 2010 rejecting the appeal by bloggers and activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade thus upholding the previous decisions taken by the lower courts in 2009 that convicted the […]

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September 8, 2010

YouTube guilty of its users' copyright infringement says a German court

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutschland: YouTube wegen Verletzung von Urheberrechten verurteilt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2168] On 3 September 2010, the German Hamburg state court ruled that Google’s subsidiary YouTube had to pay damages for not having prevented and blocked the upload by its users of several videos of Sarah Brightman’s performances, thus violating its […]

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