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April 20, 2016 · Blogs

The lobby-tomy 5: legal help or political choices?

Is legal help always objective? Writing laws is a complicated process. A frequently used lobby strategy involves offering “legal help” and arguments that promise legal certainty. Parties claim to make no substantive choices for policy makers, but is that really the case? The new European data protection regulation is the most lobbied piece of legislation […]

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February 14, 2007 · Blogs

House of Lords produces report against the AVMS directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A report of the Lords European Union Committee offered new reasons to oppose the Commission’s draft Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), successor of the Television Without Frontiers Directive, that will extend television regulation to some Internet video services. The Directive was approved in its first reading by […]

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April 7, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 7 April 2021

Reflecting on the increased challenges to our digital rights, we realised how imperative it is that the field truly reflects everyone in European society. This means improving representation in the digital rights field, but more crucially undoing the power structures preventing us from protecting digital rights for everybody. Approaching digital rights through the lens of decoloniality invites us to interrogate how digital space is occupied, the people who are displaced, and the mechanisms of extraction it requires to exist. This process requires extra work, extra care, extra patience, extra humility as we interrogate that what seems natural.

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June 20, 2012

German news article removed from search results after DMCA complaint

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Artikel nach DMCA-Löschantrag entfernt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Deutscher_Artikel_nach_DMCA-Loeschantrag_entfernt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] European procedures for the removal of online content that is judged or accused of being illegal currently depend on the interpretation of the e-Commerce Directive by Member States and private companies. This means that whenever sites, blog posts, images or comments […]

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March 23, 2022 · Blogs | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference | Transparency

Not everything is allowed in politics: Upcoming political advertising legislation must introduce limits

In November 2021, the European Commission launched a proposal for a regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising. The document will place harmonised rules for more transparency of political advertising to facilitate the sector’s internal market. Now, it is the European Parliament’s turn, specifically the IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) Committee to lead the legislative process.

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April 27, 2017 · Blogs

AVMS Directive: It isn’t censorship if the content is mostly legal, right?

AVMSD – What is it? The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) was originally designed for satellite TV, where broadcasters are a) in full editorial control and b) content is actively transmitted to viewers. It was subsequently extended to “on-demand” services, where providers a) make an active choice to decide what is made available, but b) […]

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October 28, 2020 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 28 October 2020

Data brokers are key actors in the hidden data ecosystem. The data they collect and later sell can be used for a range of different purposes, from commercial advertising to political campaigning, and in some worrying instances, law enforcement.

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February 28, 2007

Censorship in Belarusian Internet cafes

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belarusian Council of Ministers adopted on 10 February 2007 a new act on the Regulations on Functioning of the Computer Clubs and Internet Cafes that will impose new censorship rules on all the persons that use the public Internet access points. According to the new regulations, […]

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June 19, 2013 · Blogs

US agencies have unlimited access to Internet data

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post and the Guardian, NSA and FBI are extracting e-mails, photographs, documents, video and audio chats directly from the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, within a programme called PRISM which has not been made public until now. As one of the documents mentions, the companies […]

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May 29, 2018 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

A Digestible Guide to Individual’s Rights under GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25th and Privacy Policy updates have been flooding inboxes. GDPR enhances everyone’s rights, regardless of nationality, gender, economic status and so on. Unfortunately, the majority of individuals know very little about these rights and GDPR at large.

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November 25, 2020 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology

EDRi-gram, 25 November 2020

On 12 November 2020, 12 organisations from across the EDRi network launched the first ever pan-European civil society movement against biometric mass surveillance: Reclaim Your Face. Over 10 000 people signed the petition so far. Join us!

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March 1, 2006

Recommendations – Conference "Where to go from Tunis?"

On 21-22 February the Danish network on WSIS and the WFUNA Task Force on WSIS hosted the international conference “Where to go from Tunis” in Copenhagen. The conference was aimed at following up on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which concluded on 18 November 2005 with an agreement among world leaders on […]

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