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March 11, 2004

Privacy-penalty for French Scientology critic

In France the owner of a website was convicted to pay a penalty of 450 Euro for publishing personal data without first registering with the Data Protection Authority, the CNIL. On 25 February the appeal-court of Lyon confirmed the earlier ruling, even though the judges decided to suspend payment of the penalty. Remarkably the website-owner, […]

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July 4, 2007

ENDitorial : The End of Multilateral Broadcast Treaty

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The summer special session of United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related rights (SCCR) ended with an outcome that effectively killed the proposed treaty for protection of broadcast organisations (Broadcast Treaty). The committee called off the Diplomatic Conference that was supposed […]

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May 4, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation

Elon Musk buying Twitter. What could possibly go wrong?

A new chapter of the surveillance capitalism saga happened just three days after the EU members adopted the final agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA). The board of directors of Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for USD 44 billion. The deal is not closed yet, and now the ball is in Twitter’s shareholders to accept or reject the offer. This news has grabbed the media's attention worldwide and opened public discussions on how this would affect not only the features of Twitter but also freedom of speech in the digital sphere. 

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September 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Register research turned privacy disaster. Epicenter.works nominates Sebastian Kurz for a Big Brother Award

Research is important. Using research as a cover to obtain unchecked access to sensitive official data is not. At the beginning of July, the Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, submitted to pre-parliamentary consultation a bill that would cause a seismic shift in how the government treats its citizens’ data. EDRi's member epicenter.works shares that from a privacy perspective the present bill is fundamentally flawed and places an enormous amount of data covering the entire population at risk for abuse.

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November 24, 2022

The EU’s struggle with general-purpose AI: dialogues and debates

In the EU, these AI systems are now referred to as “general-purpose AI” and policymakers are grappling with this exact question in negotiations of the EU’s so-called AI Act. Join the event to learn more.

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February 11, 2009 · Blogs

UK Government proposes increased data sharing

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The UK Minsitry of Justice introduced in January 2009, in the House of Commons the Coroners and Justice Bill which, among other things, amends the Data Protection Act 1998 and enables increased personal data sharing among governmental bodies. The Bill empowers ministers to make orders that override […]

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September 7, 2016 · Blogs

The lobby-tomy 9: Lessons of the lobby

The new European privacy law was a feast for lobbyists, but how did the Dutch government deal with all that information? And is lobbying bad? The new European data protection regulation is the most lobbied piece of legislation ever because the subject is very important and touches upon almost every aspect of our daily lives. […]

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July 18, 2007

Sweden wants tougher laws against file sharers

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Swedish Justice Department initiated the public debate process on a new legislation that will allow the copyright holders to obtain the identity of people that share illegal content over in the Internet. The draft says that the copyright holders can go to court asking the ISPs […]

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December 5, 2012

Chisugate: Copyright blackmail in Finland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Chisugate: Copyright-Erpressung in Finnland | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Chisugate_Copyright-Erpressung_in_Finnland?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] In the spring of 2012, in Finland, the father of a young girl received what amounted to a blackmail letter from a copyright lawyer. The letter demanded the payment of 600 Euros as damages for having distributed copyright-protected music recordings. The letter […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

Austria creates new agency with unprecedented surveillance powers

In the midst of the biggest surveillance scandal of mankind and after years of criticism about rogue secret agencies spying on politicians and the government bodies supposed to control them, Austria is planning to establish a new secret agency. Austria’s draft state security law, “Staatsschutzgesetz”, grants new, far reaching surveillance powers while reducing oversight and […]

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February 11, 2009

Data protection framework decision adopted

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After several years of discussions and debates with the EU bodies, the Framework Decision on the protection of personal data processed in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters was adopted by the Council and published in the Official Journal on 30 December 2008. […]

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June 2, 2004

New German proposal for mandatory data retention

According to the German e-zine Heise there is a new proposal for mandatory data retention in Germany. Just a few weeks ago, a final compromise was reached on the new Telecommunications Act, without any obligations for systematic data retention. But the Minister of the Interior, Otto Schily, is now said to work on a law […]

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