March 11, 2009 · Blogs

UK Tribunal wants the Gateway reviews on ID scheme made public

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britisches Tribunal plant Veröffentlichung der Gateway-Revision des ID-Modells | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1334] On 19 February, the UK tribunal ordered the disclosure of two internal reviews called the Gateway reviews regarding the national identity card scheme of the government. The Gateway reviews are independent and expert reviews carried out at key […]

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January 16, 2013 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Questions on the draft Directive on Cybersecurity Strategy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Fragen zum Entwurf für eine Strategie und eine Richtlinie zur Cybersicherheit | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_ENDitorial_Fragen_zum_Entwurf_fuer_eine_Strategie_und_eine_Richtlinie_zur_Cybersicherheit?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] A draft of the already announced EU Directive on Cybersecurity Strategy that is circulation in Brussels seems to be totally misguided, in EDRi’s opinion. The Commission seeks to put ENISA at the heart of […]

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September 10, 2020 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

First Analysis of the Austrian Anti-Hate Speech Law (NetDG/KoPlG)

On September 3rd the Austrian government released a legislative package to tackle online hate speech. Besides a comprehensive justice reform, the package also contains a bill that creates new obligations for online platforms to remove illegal user-generated content. This article offers a first analysis of the so called Kommunikationsplattformen-Gesetz (KoPl-G) and the many similarities it has to the German Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG).

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March 10, 2010

PNR agreements with US and Australia on the European Parliament's Agenda

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP: Passagierdatenabkommen mit den USA und Australien auf der Tagesordnung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1758] The European Parliament (EP) has discussed last week the PNR (Passenger Name Records) agreements with the US and Australia. MEP Sophie In’t Veld (ALDE, Netherlands) explained that the Parliament has traditionally been more opposed to PNR […]

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October 19, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Commissioner defends nuclear attack on internet freedom

The European Commission launched its proposal for a Copyright Directive in September 2016. The legislation includes new rules on filtering of uploads to the internet, text and data mining and the so-called “link tax”.

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October 28, 2015 · Blogs

Fundamental Rights are Fundamental

Statement of Leading Digital Rights and Consumer NGOs 37th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Amsterdam, The Netherlands We join together this week in Amsterdam, celebrating the success of Max Schrems in the case before the European Court of Justice concerning Safe Harbor. NGO leaders around the world have expressed support for Max’s […]

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February 13, 2019 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Czech BBA nominates the worst privacy intruders for the 14th time

The 14th Big Brother Awards (BBA) in the Czech Republic will take place on 14 February 2019. Awards for the biggest privacy intruders in 2018 will be announced by EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe). The Big Brother Awards, based on a concept created by EDRi member Privacy International, are intended to draw public attention to […]

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March 25, 2009

Data sharing legislation pulled by the UK government

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Gesetzgebung zur Datenweitergabe von der Britischen Regierung gestoppt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1345] The campaign of Privacy International and of other civil liberties groups against data sharing legislation in UK resulted in the UK Government decision to abandon Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill. The respective clause was giving […]

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March 25, 2009

European Parliament wants more transparency on ACTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament fordert mehr Transparenz bei ACTA | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1347] The European Parliament has included in the Draft Regulation regarding public access to the European Parliament, Council and Commission documents a reference asking for more transparency in the current negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) A recital in […]

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November 4, 2015 · Blogs

ENDitorial: A system you never heard of undermined net neutrality

Trialogues. You may never have heard of them but they’re the single biggest threat to the credibility of European Parliament’s claim to be a democratic institution. Net neutrality explains why. In September 2013, the European Commission produced its half-baked anti-net neutrality/spectrum/user-rights/roaming proposal. The European Commission believed that the “end of roaming” was such an attractive […]

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March 25, 2009

Germany: Data retention is disproportionate

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutschland: Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist unverhältnismäßig | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1348] Macedonian: [Германија: Задржувањето на податоци е непропорционално | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1412/4/lang,mk/] The German Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat) announced that the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden found the blanket recording of the entire population’s traffic data on telephone, mobile phone, e-mail and Internet […]

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November 4, 2015 · Blogs

Can the US be a “safe harbor” for travel surveillance?

This article is a shortened version of an analysis originally published on http://papersplease.org/wp/2015/10/29/can-the-us-be-a-safe-harbor-for-travel-surveillance At its plenary session on 29 October in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted a “Resolution on the electronic mass surveillance of European Union citizens”. As part of the Resolution, the European Parliament, “[c]alls on the EU Member States to drop any criminal […]

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