January 27, 2010

EDRi response to EC's consultation on creative content online

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRis Antwort auf die Beratung der Europäischen Kommission über urheberrechtlich geschützte Onlineinhalte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1673] EDRi submitted a response to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on “content online”. The consultation aimed to gather input on how to best support, at long last, the development of an effective, EU-wide, market […]

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June 1, 2011

Internet FoE: How should Europe battle online censorship?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Redefreiheit: Wie die EU Onlinezensur bekämpfen soll | http://bit.ly/m59pVW] On 23 May 2011, there was an event in the International Press Centre in Brussels, hosted by ECIPE. Participants in the event were Erika Mann (Executive Vice President, CCIA; Board Member, ICANN), William Echikson (Head of Free Expression, EMEA, […]

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September 30, 2015 · Blogs

Civil rights groups condemn draft mass surveillance bill to be adopted in France

Today EDRi, together with 30 civil rights groups, sent the following letter to French parliamentarians to condemn a draft mass surveillance bill which is scheduled to be adopted on 1 October. You can download the letter in English (pdf) and in French (pdf). If your organisation wishes to sign, please contact us at brussels(at)edri.org. Dear […]

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February 5, 2019 · Open letters | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Open letter on the Terrorism Database

On 4 February 2019, EDRi joined dozens of organisations and academics in signing an open letter. The letter criticises, in the Terrorist Content Regulation debate, the blind faith in a database to flag “terrorist content”.

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April 23, 2003

Many EU-websites violate privacy-rules

According to research by World IT Lawyers, a majority of European websites violates EU directives protecting on-line consumers. More than half of the researched websites lacks essential information about the on-line buying procedure or the consumer right to cancel an order within 7 days. On top of that, almost half of the websites of companies […]

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April 25, 2013 · Blogs

Press release: Regulation set to strip citizens of their right privacy

Civil rights groups urgently demand that Members of the European Parliament protect the privacy of their citizens. The European Parliament is considering dangerous amendments to the Commission’s proposals. These amendments would strip citizens of their privacy rights, according to a report (pdf) from a coalition of civil rights groups. The report bases its findings on […]

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September 9, 2009

ICO takes action against personal data losses in UK

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ICO geht gegen Verluste persönlicher Daten in Großbritannien vor | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1515] After UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Wigan schools in breach of the Data Protection Act following a theft of a laptop with personal information on about 43 000 children and young people, the Wigan council […]

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February 12, 2020 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Digital rights in trade agreements

Data protection safeguards needed in EU-Vietnam trade agreements

On 12 February 2020, the European Parliament gave consent for the ratification of the EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements. The trade agreement contains two cross-border data flow commitments. The related data protection safeguards in this agreement are similar to the ones in the EU-Japan agreement, which entered into force in February 2019. Civil society organisations […]

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August 25, 2004

Call for nominations Swiss Big Brother Awards

On 31 August the deadline closes for nominations for the Swiss Big Brother Awards. The organising committee has already received over 100 nominations and will publish a selection at the end of September 2004. The 5th annual Swiss ceremony of the Big Brother Awards will take place on 16 October in the city of Emmen. […]

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September 9, 2009

European Commission hearing on Google Books Settlement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Anhörung der Europäische Kommission über die Google Books-Einigung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1509] The EU Google Books hearing highlighted some very serious concerns with the settlement, but mainly from a rights holder point of view. The hearing itself addressed two quite distinct sets of issues; firstly concerns of EU rights holders […]

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January 28, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices

Austrian postal service involved in a data scandal

After a media report from the media outlet “Addendum”, the Austrian postal service faces public outcry over its data gathering and sales activities. The Austrian Post is known for not only exercising their main duty of post delivery, but also selling addresses of Austrian residents to companies and political parties, for advertising. The media report […]

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April 6, 2016 · Blogs

OnlineCensorship.org launches first report

This article was been published on 31 March 2016 on onlinecensorship.org We re-publish it in this EDRi-gram with the kind approval of the team behind onlinecensorship.org Onlinecensorship.org is pleased to share our first report “Unfriending Censorship: Insights from four months of crowdsourced data on social media censorship.” The report draws on data gathered directly from users between November 2015 and […]

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