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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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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February 29, 2016 · Blogs

Press Release: Privacy Shield is the same unsafe harbour

Today, the European Commission published the “Privacy Shield” documents, which confirm that no meaningful reforms have been made and that none are planned. In November 2013, the European Commission adopted a Communication  (pdf), in which it finally recognised the failure of the EU-US data transfer arrangement – the so-called “Safe Harbour” agreement. It then started a […]

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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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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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March 12, 2014 · Blogs

Facebook subject to German data protection law, court rules

A recent decision from the High Court of Berlin rules that Facebook is subject to German data protection law. The ruling contradicts a previous ruling by the Administrative Court of Appeals of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein, which ruled in April last year that Irish data protection rules applied over German data processing, since German […]

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October 5, 2011

French Internet users on the verge of being disconnected

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französischen Internet-Usern drohen Netzsperren | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_Franzoesischen_Interne_Usern_drohen_Netzsperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] The French authority in charge with fighting copyright infringement, Hadopi, presented on 29 September 2011 its first activity report covering 18 months, beginning of 2010 until June 2011. According to the report, since the beginning of its activity, the first warning stage […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

Spain: New penal sanctions proposed for alleged illegal linking

Spain plans to toughen its legislation by including penal sanctions for publishing links to alleged pirated content. From a very relaxed environment some years ago, Spain is, more and more, giving in to US pressure after having been threatened to be put on the blacklisted countries. Since his election in December 2011, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has […]

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November 23, 2016 · Blogs

#5 Freedom not to be labelled: How to fight profiling

This is the fifth blogpost of our series dedicated to privacy, security and freedoms. In the next weeks, we will explain how your freedoms are under threat, and what you can do to fight back.

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May 4, 2011 · Blogs

French Digital Council with no representative from Internet users

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreichs Internet-Rat ohne Konsumentenvertreter | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Franzoesischer_Internetrat_ohne_Vertretung_der_Internetnutzer] On 27 April 2011, French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially installed the National Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique – CNN) which is to advise the French government on digital issues. Among the 18 personalities belonging to the newly established body, there is […]

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April 8, 2016 · Blogs

Special report: Poland’s secret services are still using and abusing telecom and Internet data

With almost two million requests for telecommunication data and more than two thousand requests for Internet data concerning Polish citizens in 2015, it is clear that the access to metadata in Poland by the country’s secret services is still out of control. Compared to 2014, the Polish Panoptykon Foundation found that the number of requests […]

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