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April 25, 2007

ENDitorial: The Transparent Drug Addict – Choosing Therapy Over Privacy?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 1 March 2007 the Austrian Department of Health enacted its highly controversial revision of the Narcotic Substances Act, thus provoking an immediate outcry from both the medical and pharmaceutical associations and privacy experts. The draft has also been heavily criticised in the run-up to its execution […]

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November 5, 2003

New telecommunication law in Germany

On 15 October the German Federal Government adopted a draft new telecommunication act. The draft aims, inter alia, at implementing the European Directive on privacy and electronic communications (2002/58/EC), but will not introduce the spam-ban described in Article 13 of the Directive. In Germany spam will be banned through an update of the Act against […]

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February 11, 2021 · Blogs | Information democracy | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

The Digital Markets Act must do more to protect end users’ rights

As the European Commission sets out plans for a Digital Markets Act, EDRi calls for the protection of users’ human rights to be at the centre of plans to regulate the role platform gatekeepers play in the future of Europe’s digital environment.

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May 19, 2004

New telecommunications act in Germany

On Wednesday 5 May, the Mediation Committee, a common organ of the two German legislative bodies, adopted a compromise regarding the new German Telecommunications Act. It brought back a number of privacy restrictions that were already contained in the Government’s draft act (See EDRI-gram nr. 21), but had been rejected by the Deutsche Bundestag, the […]

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September 13, 2006

Online services under investigation for breaching UK Data Protection Act

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) E-Bay auction site is investigated by UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), as Privacy International has considered the site has infringed the Data Protection Act. The Data Protection Act obliges companies to allow people to delete their personal information. Privacy International claims that although not impossible, deleting accounts […]

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December 13, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

The UK discusses data retention again

Rather bizarrely, the UK appears to be taking a more diligent approach to the application of EU law on data retention than the European Commission. While the Commission sits on its hands as individual Member States adopt increasingly outlandish and illegal data retention proposals – such as a new Italian law that imposes data retention […]

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November 21, 2007

Data Protection Act infringed by UK Foreign Office

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following an investigation into the online visa application system for UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ruled on 13 November 2007 that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was in breach of the Data Protection Act, having failed to properly protect visa applications made over the Internet […]

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March 25, 2022 · Blogs | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

The Digital Markets Act promises to free people from digital walled gardens

Last night, 24 March, the European Union made a great step forward to better protecting our rights online as it approved the political trilogue compromise for the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This decision promises to challenge the strongly centralised environment of Big Tech platforms exerting too much power over our rights and over the flow of information in society. Tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will have to start following strict rules that ensure free and fair competition in the digital markets.

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September 10, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Surveillance and data retention

Digital Services Act: what we learned about tackling the power of digital platforms

A year into EDRi’s policy and advocacy efforts to improve the DSA, we take stock of our efforts in mapping challenges and successes in enabling positive change.

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March 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Open internet and inclusive technology | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality | Transparency

At a glance: Does the EU Digital Services Act protect freedom of expression?

The Digital Services Act is in many ways an ambitious piece of legislation that seeks to make ‘Big Tech’ accountable to public authorities through new significant transparency and due diligence obligations. It also contains many provisions that could help protect users’ fundamental rights. Whether it will be successful at protecting freedom of expression from undue restrictions or reining in the power of Big Tech rather than cementing it, is, however, questionable. EDRi's member ARTICLE 19 share its first thoughts on why.

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July 14, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

The Data Governance Act – between undermining the GDPR and building a Data Commons

Compared to the DSA and the DMA, the DGA has received relatively little attention, both from the digital rights community and, seemingly, from industry stakeholders. So far, the discussion in the EP – where the Internal Market ( IMCO), legal affafirs (JURI) and civil liberties (LIBE) committees have issued opinions – has revealed relatively few clear faultlines. 

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May 6, 2015 · Blogs

Slovakia: Mass surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional

Slovakia’s data retention law is now history. On 29 April, the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic ruled that the mass surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional. The decision was made in the context of proceedings initiated by 30 Members of the Parliament on behalf of the European Information Society Institute (EISi), a Slovakia-based think-tank. In […]

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