January 13, 2010

France wants to tax search engines and ISPs for online advertising

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich möchte Suchmaschinen und ISPs Steuern für Onlinewerbung auferlegen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1650] A report commissioned by the French culture ministry issued on 6 January 2010 proposes a tax on online advertising in order to support the production of music, films and journalism in the digital age. France is not […]

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February 23, 2011

Polish civil society stirs up debate on Internet freedom

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Polnische Zivilgesellschaft treibt Diskussion über die Freiheit des Internets voran | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.4_Debatte_zu_Internetfreiheit_in_Polen] The Polish chapter in the European debate on whether Internet blocking can be conceived as a measure in fighting the dissemination of child abuse images has finally been opened. This is due to the quite successful […]

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February 13, 2013 · Blogs

Dutch government maintains private copying-exception for downloading

The Dutch government announced that it wouldn’t prohibit the unauthorised downloading of copyrighted material. It did so on 4 February 2013 in a letter to the Parliament, putting an end to a heated debate that lasted for years. As a result, the Netherlands remains one of the few countries in Europe where downloading without permission […]

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July 14, 2010

The Digital Economy Act brought to court by two UK ISPs

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zwei britische ISPs bringen Digital Economy Act vor Gericht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2062] The two big UK ISPs, BT and TalkTalk, have asked the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the most controversial aspects of the Digital Economy Act, in order to establish whether it is in […]

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October 5, 2011

German politician caught in its own two-strike model trap

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Politiker tappt in eigene 2-Strikes-Falle | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_Deutscher_Politiker_tappt_in_eigene_2-Strikes-Falle?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] Siegfried Kauder, Chairman of the Legal Committee of the German Parliament, who has recently announced a plan to introduce a two strike model for persistent allegedly illegal downloaders, was found himself to infringe copyright. The system proposed by Kauder includes […]

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July 2, 2008

France promotes the three-strike scheme in Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With France taking over the presidency of the European Union on 1 July 2008, the French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel, wants to get a consensus in the fight against p2p downloading by translating the French model to the entire Europe. Christine Albane presented on 19 June […]

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April 21, 2010

Italian minister in favour of file-sharing

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italienischer Minister als File-Sharer | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1872] The Italian Minister of Internal Affairs Roberto Maroni has recently expressed his disapproval of three-striles solutions for file-sharers and admitted he was one of the people that downloaded music from the Internet, free of charge. He had already made a similar statement […]

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November 22, 2006

UK biometric passports project set back by simple cloning possibilities

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK Government faces now a big problem related to the introduction of the new biometric passports as recently it has been proven these passports can be easily and very cheaply copied by means of a microchip reader that can be legally bought on the Internet. As a […]

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April 21, 2015 · Blogs

Citizens’ groups from around the world call on EC to defend privacy

The institutions of the European Union are completing a reform of Europe’s Data Protection framework. Recognising the huge significance of the reform, the European Commission made an unequivocal promise when it launched the process. As an “absolute red line”, the level of protection of individuals’ data would not fall below existing levels. However, leaks show […]

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March 27, 2018 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

ePrivacy reform: Open letter to EU member states

Today, 27 March 2018, EDRi, together with other civil society organisations, sent an open letter to all attachés working on the ePrivacy reform for the permanent representation of EU Member States in Brussels. Open letter to European member states on the ePrivacy reform 27 March 2018 Dear Minister, Dear Member of the WP TELE, We, […]

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October 17, 2016 · Blogs | Publications

EDRi’s privacy for kids booklet: Your guide to the Digital Defenders

Today, we are publishing a booklet "Your guide to Digital Defenders vs. Data Intruders - Privacy for kids!", to help young people between 10-14 years to protect their privacy.

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June 4, 2008

ENDitorial: A new "NSA FRAnchise" set up in Sweden?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Lex Orwell, a law proposal for total surveillance, is urgently being pushed to a vote on 17 June 2008 by national security hawks in the peaceful Kingdom of Sweden. It will mandate the “NSA franchise”, the FRA, to turn its forest of parabola ears and world’s 5th […]

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