May 18, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Next year, you’ll complain about the Terrorism Directive

The European Union is currently in the process of adopting a Directive on terrorism. The Directive is expected to be finalised later this year and then each Member State government will decide what it means, and will adopt national laws to put it into practice. The European Commission wrote the draft Directive in two weeks, […]

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October 6, 2015 · Blogs

EU Commission: IT companies to fix “terrorist use of the Internet”

In August 2015, the European Commission confirmed to EDRi that it’s preparing to partner with US online companies to set up an “EU Internet Forum” which apparently includes discussing the monitoring and censorship of communications in Europe. Participants of this Forum include Facebook, Google/YouTube, Ask.fm, Microsoft and Twitter. The first meeting was held on 24 […]

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January 30, 2008

European Parliament hearing on Internet privacy issues

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During a hearing of the European Parliament (EP)’s Civil Liberties Committee, on 21 January 2008, serious data protection concerns were raised by the practice of large Internet companies that monitor the online behaviour of their users in order to provide online advertisers with the necessary information to […]

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July 4, 2012

E-voting in French elections raises problems

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: Probleme mit dem E-Voting | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.13_Frankreich_Probleme_mit_dem_E-Voting?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120704] During the French 2012 parliamentary elections, the citizens that were not in the country had the possibility to vote online. However, the transparency of the procedure was far from the desired one. While, according to the law, the delegates of the […]

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March 26, 2014 · Blogs

Russia accused for blocking news sites criticising Putin

Russia has blocked a number of major news sites including the online newspapers Grani and Ejednevni Jurnal, Garry Kasparov’s opposition information site, the blog of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and the website of the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy. A law allowing the blocking of internet sites on the order of prosecutors without a court […]

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May 6, 2015 · Blogs

Turkish student sentenced for re-tweeting satirical news

A Turkish university student was sentenced for one year for re-tweeting a satirical article that appeared on “Zaytung”, a popular Turkish website which publishes false and satirical stories in a journalistic style. Meral Tutcali, a student in Anadolu University, was sentenced by the provincial court of Adana to one year in jail for “insulting a […]

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October 8, 2008

The European Parliament voted the Telecoms Package

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Package of rules governing the Internet and telecoms sectors proposed by the European Commission in view of supporting competition and providing clearer information and a wider range of services to consumers was approved by the European Parliament on 24 September 2008, in the first reading. The […]

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February 29, 2012

Twitter censors unfavourable Sarkozy accounts

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Twitter zensuriert Sarkozy-kritische Accounts | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Twitter_zensuriert_Sarkozy-kritische_Accounts?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] Between 16 and 18 February 2012, in a surprising and first dangerous precedent in France, the social network Twitter suspended four accounts of users who were posting parody and caricature statements related to President Nicolas Sarkozy. Only two months from the French […]

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January 30, 2008

Key privacy concerns in France 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) 6 January 2008 was the 30th anniversary of the French Data Protection Act. But no one really cared. The only French contribution to this 2nd European DP day has been the publication by the CNIL (French DP Authority) of a poll result that it commissioned in November […]

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February 10, 2016 · Blogs

David Kaye calls on companies to defend freedom of expression

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur David Kaye on freedom of opinion and expression is conducting a project on the “responsibilities of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector to protect and promote freedom of expression in the digital age”. The UN Special Rapporteur made a call for input to help him identify actors with […]

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November 5, 2009

Declaration on Global Privacy Standards

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deklaration über globale Datenschutzstandards | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1567] The public voice coalition, where EDRi is also a member, gathered almost two hundred privacy experts, advocates, and governments officials from around the world for a civil society event in Madrid with the title “Global privacy standards for a Global world”. Held […]

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May 24, 2006

Data Retention faces growing opposition in Germany

The EU directive on mandatory retention of communications traffic data went into force as an EU law on 3 May 2006, but its transposition into national laws seems more uncertain than before. 16 of the 25 member states of the EU have declared that they will delay the retention of Internet traffic data for an […]

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