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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May 11, 2015 · Blogs

Digital rights at re:publica 2015

The re:publica 2015, one of the biggest digital culture conferences in the world, took place on 5-7 May in Berlin, Germany. Many EDRi members and observers contributed to this year’s event motto “Finding Europe”. We have therefore collected the most exciting talks from our network: Internet censorship around Europe since ACTA (in English) Joe McNamee […]

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March 4, 2024

Webinar: “Tracked, scraped, destroyed: smartphones of people on the move in the focus of state authorities”

Brot Für Die Welt and the Border Violence Monitoring Network are promoting a webinar to mark the launch of the study "Smartphones and people on the move”. The webinar "Tracked, scraped, destroyed: smartphones of people on the move in the focus of state authorities" will shed light on different state authorities and security actors and how they target mobile phones of people on the move and denounce a repressive and militarised border and migration regime violating fundamental human rights and principles of data protection

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December 19, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Terrorist Content Regulation: Warnings from the UN and the CoE

On 11 December 2018, three United Nations Special Rapporteurs published a joint Report on the European Union’s proposal for a Regulation to prevent the dissemination of terrorist content online. The Report, issued by Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on right to privacy Joseph Cannataci, and Special Rapporteur on protection of […]

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October 21, 2009

Romania: Data retention law declared unconstitutional

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänien: Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung für verfassungswidrig erklärt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1552] The Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) announced on 7 October 2009 that it took the decision to consider unconstitutional the Romanian implementation of the data retention directive. The Romanian data retention law has been in force since the beginning of […]

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May 10, 2006

Webcasting put on a separate track from the new draft WIPO Treaty

At the beginning of May 2006 the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/14) met in Geneva with the aim to decide on recommendations to the WIPO General Assemblies 2006 in September on a draft WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organisations. The proposals for a treaty giving new intellectual property rights […]

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March 14, 2012

EDPS on the new draft EU data protection policy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Europäische Datenschutzbeauftragte zur geplanten EU-Datenschutzreform | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.5_Der_Europaeische_Datenschutzbeauftragte_zur_geplanten_EU-Datenschutzreform] On 7 March 2012, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued his Opinion on the proposed reform package adopted by the Commission on 25 January that includes a Regulation with general rules on data protection and a Directive […]

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November 19, 2008

ENDitorial: An overheated debate on the rights of the visually impaired

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The agenda of the 17th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, that took place between 3-7 November 2008 at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva, included the following topics: the limitations and exceptions, the protection of audiovisual performances and the protection of broadcasting organizations. In particular, the […]

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July 15, 2009

EDPS on the Stockholm Programme

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Datenschutzbeauftragte äußert sich zum Stockholmprogramm | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1466] After the release of the Stockholm Programme considered by civil rights groups as enhancing the “dangerously authoritarian” European surveillance and security system, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published on 13 July 2009 his opinion on the new system. The […]

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July 13, 2011

EP discussions on international agreements on passenger name records

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP-Debatten zu internationalen Fluggastdatenabkommen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_EP_Debatten_zu_internationalen_Fluggastdatenabkommen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] At the European Parliament (EP) plenary session on Monday 4 July 2011, a debate took place regarding the current development of passenger name records (PNR) agreements with the United States, Canada and Australia. The debate attracted a very large number of speakers. […]

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