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February 16, 2012

SABAM vs Netlog – another important ruling for fundamental rights

SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs), the Belgian collecting society for music royalties, is in the spotlight again. A few months after the Scarlet/SABAM case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has released a new decision on the legality of filtering systems on the Internet, this time with regard to […]

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October 10, 2007

UK: Decrypt data or go to prison!

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The controversial Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) in UK is in force starting with 1 October 2007. This new regulation gives the power to police forces to ask for the disclosure of encryption keys, or force suspects to decrypt encrypted data. RIPA […]

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October 22, 2008

German court says ISPs do not violate the law by storing IP addresses

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 30 September 2008, the Munich District Court decided in a provisional ruling that website operators were not violating the data protection legislation when storing IP addresses of their visitors as IP addresses alone are not considered personal data. The case was brought to the court by […]

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February 29, 2012

The Netlog and Scarlet/Sabam rulings & ACTA – what have we learned?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA & die Entscheidungen zu Netlog und Scarlet/Sabam – was wir daraus gelernt haben | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_ACTA_und_die_Entscheidungen_zu_Netlog_und_Scarlet_Sabam?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] There has been a great degree of noise around the recent Netlog/Sabam ruling from the European Court of Justice and what this may prove or disprove about ACTA. This article will seek […]

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November 30, 2016 · Blogs

European Union Directive on counterterrorism is seriously flawed

BRUSSELS—European Union Member States must ensure that a new effort to standardise counterterrorism laws does not undermine fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, a group of international human rights organisations said today. Amnesty International, the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Fundamental Rights European Experts (FREE) Group, Human Rights Watch […]

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February 29, 2012

More ISP blocking in different EU countries

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue Netzsperren in immer mehr EU-Ländern | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Neue_Netzsperren_in_immer_mehr_EU-Laendern?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] More and more cases were won in court by rightsholders against file-sharing platforms in the past weeks, but the blocking habits of the ISPs are starting to show their limits. The UK High Court ruled on 20 February 2012 that […]

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February 7, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

Smashing the law without breaking it: A Commission guide

How to create a general monitoring obligation without creating a general monitoring obligation? That is the question that the Commission has been trying to answer with the Article 13 of its “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market”. It aims at solving the issue of a so-called “value gap”, that is […]

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June 13, 2018 · Campaigns | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Stop the Censorship Machine and Save Your Internet!

Join the fight against the EU's Censorship Machine!

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October 17, 2007

List of Signatories-New Council of Europe Recommendation fails to uphold online freedom of expression

Act Now to Protect Freedom of Expression Online: – Sign up in support to this EDRI statement (NGOs and groups from non CoE member States also welcome) Read EDRI Statement: – Čeština : Výzva k akci: Doporučení Rady Evropy neochrání svobodu slova – Deutsch: Die neue Empfehlung des Europarates hält die freie Meinungsäußerung online nicht […]

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April 21, 2010

Dutch copyright working group strikes deep packet inspection

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische ARGE Urheberrecht lässt Deep Packet Inspection fallen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1868] Last year, a Dutch parliamentary working group on copyright published a heavily contested report on the future of copyright. It advised rendering the downloading of copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holder illegal. The working group […]

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February 29, 2012

Internet communications heavily monitored by German intelligence services

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Geheimdienste überwachen Internetkommunikation | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Deutsche_Geheimdienste_ueberwachen_Internetkommunikation?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] Based on two reports of the German Parliamentary Control Panel (PKG), in 2009 and 2010, the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection, the Federal Intelligence Service and the Military Counterintelligence Service have monitored an impressive number of e-mails and other forms of Internet […]

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October 10, 2013 · Blogs

Data protection series – issue sheets

On 21 October the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) will vote a hugely important dossier: The General Data Protection Regulation. This very long legislative document is intended to ensure that our rights to privacy and data protection can be effectively asserted in our everyday lives. One of the main […]

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