November 26, 2004 · Blogs

An Open Letter to the European Parliament on Biometric Registration of all EU Citizens and Residents

!!To the Members of the European Parliament, We the undersigned are calling on you to reject the ‘Draft Council Regulation on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States’. This is an unnecessary and rushed policy that will have hazardous effects on Europeans’ right to privacy. This policy […]

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September 21, 2011

Italian draft law suggests a "one strike" law for copyright infringement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italien plant One-Strike-Gesetz gegen Copyright-Verstöße | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.18_Italien_plant_One_Strike_Gesetz_gegen_Copyright_Verstoesse?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111004] A group of the Italian parliamentarians has recently introduced a draft law which could basically block the freedom of expression and access to information in Italy. The draft law, which includes two articles, stipulates that an Internet user may be banned […]

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August 29, 2012

ENDitorial: CleanIT: creating a safer internet…for terrorists?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [CleanIT – ein sichereres Internet … für Terroristen? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.16_ENDitorial_CleanIT_ein_sichereres_Internet_fuer_Terroristen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120913] The “CleanIT project”, funded by the European Commission and led by the Dutch police, aims to produce a “guideline or gentleman’s agreement” to fight terrorism online in a way which does not involve the use of legislation. The […]

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April 9, 2014 · Blogs

OHCHR consultation in connection with GA Resolution 68 167

On 1 April 2014, several EDRi members, including Article 19, Access and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with Privacy International, the Association for Progressive Communications, Human Rights Watch and the World Wide Web Foundation submitted a response to the consultation undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The consultation was […]

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September 12, 2012

EDPS opinion on the EU database for asylum seekers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Stellungnahme des EDSB zur Asylwerber-Datenbank der EU | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.17_Stellungnahme_des_EDSB_zur_Asylwerber-Datenbank_der_EU?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120918] On 5 September 2012, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued his opinion on the amended Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of EURODAC database for the comparison of […]

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November 3, 2010

Is YouTube back online in Turkey?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ist YouTube in der Türkei wieder online? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2326] After almost three years of blocking, Turkey has finally lifted its ban on YouTube. Google’s site was blocked in 2007 for videos considered insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s founder. In 2007, Turkey’s parliament adopted a law allowing […]

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November 26, 2004

An Open Letter to the European Parliament on Biometric Registration of all EU Citizens and Residents

!!To the Members of the European Parliament, We the undersigned are calling on you to reject the ‘Draft Council Regulation on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States’. This is an unnecessary and rushed policy that will have hazardous effects on Europeans’ right to privacy. This policy […]

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November 3, 2010

Belgian Court upholds Creative Commons licence

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgischer Gerichtshof bestätigt Creative Commons Lizenz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2329] A local court in Nivelles, Belgium upheld in a case decided 26 October 2010 on the validity of the Creative Commons licence in a copyright infringement case when a music group published its music under CC BY-NC-SA. In this case […]

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May 7, 2008

Important personal data lost by the Bank of Ireland

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The personal data of about 10 000 customers of the Bank of Ireland (BOI) are now in the possession of thieves as four laptops with the unencrypted data were stolen from the bank between June and October 2007. The four stolen laptops had been used by staff […]

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May 24, 2006

Draft Audiovisual Media Services Directive under criticism

The European Commission proposal to regulate commercial audio and video broadcasts over the Internet and mobile phones, continues to be strongly opposed by supporters of free speech, but also tranditional and new media providers. At the meeting of Education, Youth and Culture Council in Brussels (18-19 May 2006) the proposal for a directive amending the […]

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May 7, 2008

Radio Free Europe's websites in Belarus under attack

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Several Radio Free Europe websites were under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the past week. The attacks started on 26 April 2008, the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, primary targeted at the Belarus Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) service which was offering […]

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May 7, 2008

German Intelligence caught spying on journalist's emails

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Federal Intelligence Service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has been recently under pressure for having illicitly monitored the e-mails between Spiegel correspondent Susanne Koelbl and Afghanistan’s Commerce Minister Amin Farhang. The German parliamentary commission in charge with investigating the activities of the secret services (PKG) criticised BND, […]

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