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January 31, 2024 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Irish Media Regulator must address dangerous age verification in its new online safety code

On 30 January 2024, EDRi submitted its comments on the Irish Media Regulator’s (Coimisiún na Meán) new Online Safety Code in a public consultation, highlighting significant concerns about age verification.

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May 4, 2011

Copyright complaint leads to public domain music library takedown

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Urheberrechtsbeschwerde: Musikbibliothek offline | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Urheberrechtsbeschwerde_Musikbibliothek_offline] International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has been recently taken offline following a complaint from the UK’s Music Publishers Association which convinced registrar GoDaddy to takedown their website. The action was brought over a […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

DMCA take down requests to DMCA take down requests

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google soll Löschanträge löschen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Google_soll_Loeschantraege_loeschen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Google has recently refused to comply with the take down requests sent by several copyright holders asking for the taking down of their own take down requests (under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act – DMCA) which have now reached almost 20 […]

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April 11, 2012

UK: Home Office plans new surveillance measures

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [UK: Innenministerium plant neue Überwachungsmaßnahmen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.7_UK_Innenministerium_plant_neue_Ueberwachungsmassnahmen] The Communication Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) proposed by UK coalition, meant to extend the police’s access to individuals’ email and social media traffic data, is facing strong criticism from the opposition and civil liberties campaigners. CCDP is likely to be part […]

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May 22, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

ePrivacy: Private data retention through the back door

Blanket data retention has been prohibited in several court decisions by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG). In spite of this, some of the EU Member States want to reintroduce it for the use by law enforcement authorities – through a back door in the ePrivacy Regulation.

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December 17, 2008

Wikipedia filtered by UK ISPs for cover album picture

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Wikipedia administrators found on 5 December 2008 that six British ISPs were filtering the access to their site, after Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) had put the online encyclopedia on a child-pornography blacklist for its article on Virgin Killer, the record album of the German band the Scorpions. […]

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January 27, 2016 · Blogs

Academics under attack in Turkey

1128 academics from Turkish universities signed an open letter urging the government to stop using curfews to facilitate the violence ongoing for weeks in Kurdish towns. The number of local signatories increased to 2212 by 20 January 2016, including 30 Nobel Prize winners. Moreover, the letter heading “We Will Not Be A Party To This […]

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March 27, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Europol: Delete criminals’ data, but keep watch on the innocent

Under the Europol Regulation, the agency must “support Member States' actions in preventing and combating forms of crime” such as terrorism and racism. However, much of the criminality that Europol works on is not harmonised on a EU level.

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May 4, 2011

Privatised enforcement series D: Anatomy of a self-regulation proposal

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Serie: Privatisierung der Online-Strafverfolgung – Teil D | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Privatisierung_der_Online_Strafverfolgung_Teil_D] How does it happen that an industry or a sector of industry signs up “voluntarily” to arbitrarily punish their consumers and to restrict freedom of speech? One of the most interesting and telling examples is the ongoing “public/private dialogue […]

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality

How it started, how it’s going: Halfway through the current European Commission’s legislative term

In January 2022, EDRi held a panel at its annual flagship event Privacy Camp to discuss the EU’s current legislative term and what to expect by the next EU elections in terms of digital rights.

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June 2, 2010

Article 29 WP asks more data protection from search engine operators

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Artikel 29-Gruppe fordert mehr Datenschutz von Suchmaschinenbetreibern | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1967] In a letter addressed to the three big IT companies Google, Yahoo and Microsoft on 26 May 2010, the EU independent group of privacy regulators Article 29 Working Party (WP29) shows concerns related to data protection issues and urges […]

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December 17, 2008

Snooping law, "Lex Nokia", proceeding slowly but surely in Finland

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Earlier this year, in April, the Government of Finland presented a bill to the Parliament for an amendment to the Act on Data Protection of Electronic Communications. Raison d’être for the bill officially is that it would allow employers to investigate the log data of employees’ e-mails, […]

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