June 29, 2011

UK: Copyright holders ask for website blocking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Rechteinhaber fordern Netzsperren | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.13_Britische_Rechteinhaber_fordern_Netzsperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110708] According to some leaked reports, copyright holders seem to have proposed during a roundtable with UK Government representatives, ISPs and others on 15 June 2011, plans that could lead to the blocking of websites that allegedly host copyright infringing material. Apparently, the […]

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February 14, 2007

Belgium court backs decision against Google

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In the case brought by Copiepresse, a trade group representing 17 Belgium newspapers, against Google for publishing links to newspaper articles without permission, the Brussels Tribunal upheld its previous decision and ruled that Google violated the copyright law. Google was ordered to remove Belgian newspaper content from […]

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September 23, 2009

MEPs ask for a new agreement on SWIFT bank data transfers to USA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [MEPs fordern ein neues Abkommen über SWIFT-Bankdatentransfers an die USA | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1523] The European Parliament issued on 17 September 2009 a resolution reaffirming the need that for the Council and EU ministers to renegotiate the agreement to transfer bank data to the United States Treasury Department. MEPs have […]

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October 7, 2009

France wants to filter online gambling sites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich will online-Glücksspielseiten filtern | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1539] From 7 till 9 October 2009, the French National Assembly will discuss a draft law on opening the competition and regulation of online gambling sector. The text foresees the creation of a similar authority to that of HADOPI, called ARJEL that would […]

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October 21, 2009

Romania: Data retention law declared unconstitutional

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänien: Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung für verfassungswidrig erklärt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1552] The Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) announced on 7 October 2009 that it took the decision to consider unconstitutional the Romanian implementation of the data retention directive. The Romanian data retention law has been in force since the beginning of […]

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November 4, 2009

Third PrivacyOS: More Privacy, Increased awareness

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Dritte PrivacyOS-Veranstaltung: Mehr Datenschutz, erhöhtes Bewusstsein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1571] Continuing the privacy events after the huge success of the 11th Austrian Big Brother Awards that took place in the evening of 25 October 2009, the Third PrivacyOS Conference took place in Vienna on 26-27 October 2009, focusing on sharing […]

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April 9, 2008

OOXML adopted as a new standard by ISO

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Open Office XML has been approved as an international recognized standard by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), despite the open source community voices that have raised a number of problems with the standard as such and with unfair practices during the process with such as committee […]

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May 10, 2006

Webcasting put on a separate track from the new draft WIPO Treaty

At the beginning of May 2006 the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/14) met in Geneva with the aim to decide on recommendations to the WIPO General Assemblies 2006 in September on a draft WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organisations. The proposals for a treaty giving new intellectual property rights […]

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November 3, 2010

Continuing the battle against data retention

This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Продолжува битката против задржување.. | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/prodolzhuva-bitkata-protiv-zadrzhuvanjeto-na-podatoci.html] Deutsch: [Fortsetzung im Kampf gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2328] During the 32nd Annual Conference of the Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners “Privacy: Generations” that took place on 27 and 28 October 2010, EDRi-member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called for the abolition of […]

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October 19, 2011

Berlusconi's wiretapping law threatens online publishers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Berlusconis Abhörgesetz bedroht Online-Medien | www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.20_Berlusconis_Abhoergesetz_bedroht_Online-Medien?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111028] The Italian Parliament has resumed discussions on the very criticised governmental bill that would limit the publication of wiretaps in the news media, forcing at the same time websites to automatically publish corrections at request. But on 12 October 2011 the decision […]

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January 15, 2004

French draft law obliges providers to monitor content

On 8 January 2004 the second reading by the French National Assembly of the draft law on Digital Economy (Loi sur la confiance dans l’economie numerique or LEN) stirred up public controversy. The law aims at transposing the E-Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) and part of the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC). The National Assembly […]

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January 14, 2009

Lists of allegedly illegal websites always leak

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) While some European countries block the illegal content (mostly child pornography websites), other are considering implementing a similar measure through a hidden list. However the past month has shown, one more time if necessary, that usually the list of any blocked content will leak and thus the […]

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