June 30, 2010

Iceland – first steps for a new media haven

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Island: Erste Schritte zu einem neuen Medienhafen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2037] Iceland’s Parliament has recently accepted a proposal by Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI) asking the Icelandic Government to find “ways to strengthen freedoms of expression and information freedom in Iceland, (and provide) strong protections for sources and whistleblowers.” The […]

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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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October 19, 2011

European action week on airline passenger surveillance

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Aktionswoche gegen Fluggastüberwachung | www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.20_Europaeische_Aktionswoche_gegen_Fluggastueberwachung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111028] Credit card details, hotel bookings, IP addresses, mobile phone numbers, and travel details: all this information is currently being transferred to law enforcement agencies in third countries. The storage and automatic processing of our data is supposed to enable law enforcement agencies […]

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July 7, 2016 · Blogs

Copyfail #7: Not allowing research via “commercial” text and data mining

This article is the seventh in the series presenting Copyfails. The EU is reforming its copyright rules. We want to introduce you to the main failures of the current copyright system, with suggestions on how to fix them. You can find all the Copyfails here. How has it failed? We live in an era where […]

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July 2, 2008 · Blogs

Recommanded Reading

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Article 29 Working Party – Opinion 2/2007 on information to passengers about the transfer of PNR data to US authorities, Adopted on 15 February 2007 and revised and updated on 24 June 2008 http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2008/wp151_en.pdf Kieran Poynter’s Review of information security at HM Revenue and Customs http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/0/1/poynter_review250608.pdf Independent […]

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August 1, 2007

EDRI's contributions to the RFID Expert Group

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The RFID Expert Group created by the European Commission in order to assist in drafting the future RFID strategy had several meetings until now. European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRI) submitted two papers to this group on RFID Privacy and Security in order to stress that the reliable […]

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September 26, 2007

Human Rights in the Information Society – rediscover the proportionality

On 13-14 September 2007 the French Commission for UNESCO, UNESCO and the Council of Europe organised the conference “Ethics and Human Rights in the Information Society” in Strasbourg, to which EDRi was invited to contribute. This conference was the third in a cycle of regional conferences on the ethical dimensions of the information society, which […]

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February 15, 2012

European Commission discusses tactical, partial retreat on ACTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission erwägt taktischen Teilrückzug aus ACTA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Europaeische_Kommission_erwaegt_taktischen_Teilrueckzug_aus_ACTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] At the meeting of the heads of cabinet of the European Commission on Monday of this week, Commissioner De Gucht’s representative announced that a referral of ACTA to the Court of Justice of the European Union is currently being […]

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April 6, 2011

RFID Privacy Impact Assessment Framework formally adopted

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [RFID – Neue Datenschutzregeln formell verabschiedet | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.7_PIA_fuer_RFID-Anwendungen_verabschiedet] The Privacy Impact Assessment Framework for RFID applications (RFID PIA) was officially signed by European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes, representatives of the RFID industry, the chairman of the Article 29 Working Party, Jacob Kohnstamm, and the Executive Director of […]

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December 2, 2009

ENDitorial: Keeping the "self" in self-regulation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Das „Selbst“ in Selbstregulierung wahren| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1616] Businesses, particularly in the Internet environment, fear (and often have good reason to fear) government regulation. Traditionally, therefore, Internet Service Providers have pushed for “self-regulatory” solutions to issues surrounding the management and operation of their own networks – as in the […]

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March 9, 2011

SWIFT agreement implementation not respecting data protection safeguards

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Umsetzung des SWIFT-Abkommens missachtet den Datenschutz | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_Implentierung_des_SWIFT-Abkommens] The “top secret” status of the implementation of the SWIFT/TFTP Agreement has irked MEPs such as Dutch member Sophie In’t Veld, who has warned the Commission and Member States that they may block other transatlantic data deals in the future. […]

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July 14, 2010

Blocking of innocent websites by O2 Ireland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [O2 Ireland sperrt harmlose Webseiten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2064] The Irish mobile operator O2 has acknowledged accidentally blocking the image hosting website IMGUR through its system for blocking alleged child abuse material. There appears to have been no indication that there was, in fact, any illegal material hosted on that […]

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