June 22, 2016 · Blogs

Zero rating: Why it is dangerous for our rights and freedoms

Net neutrality is the principle that all the internet traffic is treated equally, without blocking or slowing down certain data. Net neutrality is crucial for fair competition between online services, for innovation, and for freedom of expression online. The European Parliament has adopted a Regulation that includes provisions on net neutrality. Currently, the BEREC (the […]

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October 19, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality | Transparency

Civil society calls for evidence-based solutions to disinformation

Human and digital rights organisations Access Now, Civil Liberties Union for Europe and European Digital Rights (EDRi) published a joint report on 18 October 2018 evaluating the European Commission’s online disinformation and propaganda initiatives.

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July 2, 2014 · Blogs

Poland: Secret services escape citizens’ control

Poland celebrated its 25 years of democracy recently. In those two and a half decades, among other changes, most public institutions in Poland have got more or less used to citizens’ control. It has taken years of advocacy and watchdog activity, as well as a number of court cases to decide whether a given piece […]

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November 24, 2014 · Blogs

Price discrimination – the Commission’s plan B to undermine net neutrality?

The European Commission is energetically defending the “right” of telecoms operators to use price discrimination, arguing that this is not a breach of net neutrality. In price discrimination, the telecoms company establishes itself as a monopoly “gatekeeper” of access to its own customers. In other words, big online companies like Google and Facebook can pay […]

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November 27, 2014 · Blogs

European Parliament fights back hard on net neutrality

After EDRi published a leaked draft by the Italian EU Presidency to weaken proposals on net neutrality, the European Parliament has hit back with a strongly-worded resolution (see paragraphs 8 and 14). The final version will be linked here when available). The resolution was adopted with 458 in favour and 173 against. The resolution re-asserts […]

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April 4, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Modern Poland Foundation: protecting access to culture and knowledge

In this blogpost published on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of EDRi we present our member Modern Poland Foundation.

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April 23, 2018 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet

Civil society urges Portuguese telecom regulator to uphold net neutrality

On 23 April 2018, 13 civil society organisations submitted a complaint to the Portuguese regulator on one of the most extreme net neutrality violations in Europe, urging them to use their authority to prohibit so-called zero-rating offers.

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January 20, 2014 · Blogs

Infographic: European Parliament votes on net neutrality

This week, three European Parliament committees will hold votes on the future of the open and neutral internet. You can make your voice heard by contacting your elected representatives before the votes and find more information on our campaign portal SaveTheInternet.eu. The CULT committee voted on 21 January The JURI committee voted on 21 January […]

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January 13, 2010

An Irish law for a DNA Database

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irisches Gesetz für eine DNA-Datenbank | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1649] The Irish Government has announced that it will publish legislation this week to set up a national DNA database. The Bill follows a 2005 Report of the Law Reform Commission on Establishment of a DNA Database but was delayed by the […]

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March 22, 2017 · Blogs

EU moves one step closer to the world’s worst internet filtering law

In September 2016, the European Commission proposed legislation that would require the constant monitoring and filtering of virtually everything that is uploaded to the internet in Europe. Under the extreme rules proposed by the Commission in the Copyright Directive, uploads to the internet would need to be scanned to assess if any photo, video or […]

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May 17, 2017 · Blogs

Dutch ban on zero-rating struck down – major blow to net neutrality

20 April 2017 was a bad day for net neutrality in the Netherlands, and possibly also in the rest of Europe. The court of Rotterdam struck down the general ban on price discrimination, including zero-rating, as enacted in the Dutch Telecommunications Act. The court held that the categorical ban on price discrimination is “evidently” in […]

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May 12, 2016 · Blogs

European Digital Rights at re:publica 2016

Last week, the re:publica, “Europe’s most exciting conference on Internet and society”, took place in Berlin. EDRi’s members and observers were out in force and participated in the 10th anniversary of the re:publica. We’ve collected all talks by our network for you (in chronological order): Fight for your digital rights (in German) Link to re:publica […]

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