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December 5, 2005

Launch of Digital Rights Ireland

Digital Rights Ireland will formally launch at a press conference in the Conference Room in Pearse Street Library, at 11-am on Tuesday 6 December. The group has been formed to defend civil, human and legal rights in a digital age. Digital Rights Ireland will be discussing its mission, and current developments in relation to Data […]

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December 5, 2007

New agreement between the French ISPs and record industries

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Under the patronage of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, an agreement was signed on 23 November 2007 between some French ISPs and the music and movie representatives in order to act directly against the big illegal file-sharers. These could be warned in the first stage and then […]

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June 2, 2010

Graduated Response in Ireland and UK

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Three Strikes in Irland und Großbritannien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1969] Irish Service Provider Eircom announced on 24 May 2010 its decision to introduce a voluntary graduate response procedure that would end up in shutting down broadband Internet connections of its clients who are considered to illegally download music. The decision […]

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December 4, 2013 · Blogs

Paris court orders search engines and ISPs to block websites

In a case dating back from December 2011, brought to court by the French Association of Cinema Producers, a group representing more than 120 companies including Paramount and Sony, together with other film industry organisations, the High Court of Paris has decided, on 28 November 2013, to order Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to completely de-list […]

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February 4, 2016 · Blogs

EDRi co-hosts the Privacy Camp, 26 January 2016

In the run up to CPDP conference in Brussels, civil society groups met at the fifth annual Privacy Camp to exchange views and develop new strategies. This year’s conference took place under the title “The Multiple Ways of (De/Self)-Regulation: What is at stake for Human Rights?” and included various panels and speakers from around the […]

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June 5, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Czech Constitutional Court rejects complaint on data retention

Czech EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) has fought for 14 years against Czech implementation of the controversial EU data retention Directive which was declared invalid by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). After years of campaigning and many hard legislative battles, the fight has finally come to an end: on 22 May […]

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December 5, 2005

Results e-society conference in Macedonia

The international conference “e-Society.Mk” took place in Macedonia in October and November 2005, with the goal of raising awareness and sharing knowledge of decision makers about important information society issues with the general public. It was organised by Foundation Metamorphosis and supported by OSCE Mission in Skopje and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the […]

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May 18, 2011

Ireland adopts innovation agenda on intellectual property

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irland: Innovationen zu geistigem Eigentum | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Irland_Innovationen_zu_geistigem_Eigentum] Richard Bruton, the Irish Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, said that he was determined that the Irish government should make whatever changes were necessary to allow innovative digital companies to reach their full potential in Ireland. He said that some […]

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April 24, 2013 · Blogs

Turkish pianist sentenced for comments on Twitter

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Meinungsfreiheit: Türkischer Pianist wegen Twitter-Kommentaren verurteilt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.8_Meinungsfreiheit_Tuerkischer_Pianist_wegen_Twitter-Kommentaren_verurteilt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130424] On 15 April 2013, the Criminal Court of Justice of Istanbul gave Turkish pianist Fazil Say a 10 month suspended jail sentence over comments on Twitter, deciding he was guilty of violating an article of the Turkish Criminal Code that […]

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February 10, 2016 · Blogs

Holland and India prohibit zero-rating: the first of many?

The principle of net neutrality requires that internet access providers carry data without discrimination on the basis of origin, destination or type of data. Net neutrality prohibits telecoms operators from blocking or degrading content applications or services. From a telecom operator’s perspective, the goal is to move away from the “any-to-any” principle that is a […]

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June 19, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

German Big Brother Awards – one “winner” reacts and appears

The German Big Brother Awards (BBA) gala was held on 8 June 2019 in Bielefeld, Germany. Organised annually since 2000 by EDRi member Digitalcourage, this year’s gala was the third to be streamed live in English in addition to the original German. For the second time, the venue was Bielefeld theatre, where the stage set […]

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July 1, 2009

Norway will not chase file-sharers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Norwegen wird File-Sharer nicht verfolgen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1453] The Norwegian data protection authority has decided that ISPs had to delete all IP address-related data just 3 weeks after collection, a decision that will make difficult to chase file-sharers. The regulator started with two ISPs, Tele2 and Lyse Tele but […]

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