March 23, 2016 · Blogs

The lobby-tomy 3: who are lobbying?

Did you know that there are 340,000 dentists in Europe? And that they lobby about privacy? Who else lobbies? How do parties/groups create coalitions to persuade policy makers? What’s the mayor of Amsterdam doing in Brussels? In this blog on the privacy lobby we describe the different parties that are lobbying. The new European data […]

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July 4, 2013 · Blogs

The ACTA Archive

Today is the first anniversary of the rejection of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in the European Parliament – after months of debates, a large majority of Parliamentarians voted against the adoption. This is the perfect time to gather all documents that have ever been produced by EDRi on this Agreement, to recall who were […]

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March 9, 2011 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Net child abuse: Member States fiercely defend their right to do nothing

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Kindesmissbrauch im Internet – Mitgliedsstaaten verteidigen verbissen ihr Recht auf Untätigkeit | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_ENDitorial_Mitgliedsstaaten_verteidigen_ihr_Recht_auf_Untaetigkeit] The first Council Working Group meeting on the proposed European Directive on Child Exploitation produced near unanimity among the Member States that their right to do nothing must be defended. As a result, the […]

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April 9, 2014 · Blogs

Turkey removes Twitter ban following court decision

On 2 April 2014 Turkey’s constitutional court ruled that the ban on Twitter breached laws on the freedom of expression. The decision follows Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge to “wipe out Twitter” after users leaked information detailing alleged corrupt and illegal activities of several officials. The ban was enacted on 20 March and was […]

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May 10, 2006

EU Parliament Members want more privacy in SIS II

The Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs at the European Parliament debated the draft Regulation on the establishment, operation and use of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II). There was a consensus among members of the committee that better privacy safeguards are needed for the SIS II, especially because it will […]

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November 5, 2014 · Blogs

Hungary’s Internet tax postponed but not yet abolished

On 28 October about 100,000 Hungarians gathered to protest a planned introduction of a tax on Internet data transfers. The new tax would have required Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to pay 150 forints (0,48 euro) per gigabyte of data traffic. According to the Hungarian government’s proposal, the intended tax was meant solely for ISPs. However, […]

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November 19, 2014 · Blogs

Obama urges the FCC to adopt rules to ensure net neutrality

In a speech on 10 November, US President Barack Obama made a strong statement calling for net neutrality. He urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt rules to prevent Internet access providers from blocking or slowing down content, and from charging service providers to let them use a “fast lane” to reach their clients. […]

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December 3, 2008

Turkey: Another blocking order against YouTube

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) For the forth time in two years, on 20 November 2008, the Turkish authorities blocked access to YouTube asserting that certain content posted on the site was disrespectful to Kemal Mustafa Atatürk, the Turkish Republic’s founder, or supported the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Turkey is the […]

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October 5, 2023 · Document pools | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

CSA Regulation Document Pool

This document pool contains updates and resources on the EU's proposed 'Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse' (CSA Regulation)

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August 25, 2010

Some European ISPs ordered by courts to block access to gambling

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische ISPs sollen Zugang zu Glücksspiel-Seiten sperren | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2126] As a result of a case introduced by Arjel (the new French online gambling regulating authority) against Gibraltar-based site stanjames.com which had not responded to the authority’s formal request to stop its services to French users, on 6 August […]

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July 2, 2014 · Blogs

Google and the right to be forgotten – the truth is out there

After all of the noise surrounding the Google/Spain case, the “deletion” of search results, the paedophiles whose crimes would be washed away and the end of history, the reality of the case is slowly drifting into the media. We were told by the Wall Street Journal three weeks ago that any search results that were […]

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March 2, 2011 · Blogs

Voto de Orientação sobre o Relatório Angelilli

PDF Version: http://www.edri.org/files/compromise_pt.pdf Parliament text: http://www.edri.org/files/libe_vote.pdf (English) Voto de Orientação sobre o Relatório Angelilli Resumo do compromisso parlamentar sobre bloqueio Em 14 de Fevereiro, a Comissão de Liberdades Civis (LIBE) do Parlamento Europeu adoptou um texto de compromisso respondendo à proposta da Comissão Europeia sobre bloqueio Internet (Artigo 21 e Recital 13). Sob a liderança […]

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