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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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June 9, 2012

Numbers at ACTA demonstrations exceed expectations

After all of the announcements of ACTA’s death, one would wonder why anybody would have felt the need to turn up to the anti-ACTA demonstrations today. In April, the European Parliamentarian in charge of the ACTA dossier said that ACTA was dead.[1] In May, the European Commissioner for the Information Society, Neelie Kroes, said that […]

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December 6, 2012 · Blogs

Q&A on WCIT : Ask the European Commission

Over the next two weeks, EDRi will participate in two video conferences, on the 7 December and 12 December, organised by the European Commission in order to get live feedback from the ITU’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai. The video conferences are an opportunity to get answers on the discussions taking place […]

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December 19, 2012 · Blogs

WCIT: what happened and what it means for the Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WCIT: Was passiert ist und was es für das Internet bedeutet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_WCIT_Was_passiert_ist_und_was_es_fuer_das_Internet_bedeutet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] After two weeks of intensive negotiations, the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) adopted the revised International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs), a controversial treaty, which has been viewed by many as an attempt by the International […]

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November 20, 2013 · Blogs

Bogus hearing of the UK intelligence agencies

On 7 November 2013, the heads of the three UK internal and foreign intelligence agencies, GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, were publicly heard by UK’s secretive intelligence and security committee (ISC) concerning Snowden’s leaks regarding the mass surveillance by US and UK intelligence. Although this was a historical even being the first instance when heads of […]

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May 14, 2014 · Blogs

WePromise: European Day of Action – 15 May 2014

Take back the net and take back EU politics! Civil rights organisations from across Europe invite you to participate in a day of action for the WePromise.eu campaign to demand that the next European Parliament defends digital civil and human rights. The European Parliament is taking more and more decisions that have a direct impact […]

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July 16, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Commission Communication on IP Enforcement

On 1 July, 2014, the European Commission launched an oddly-named Communication entitled “Towards a renewed consensus on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.” It is good to see the Commission being ambitious, but renewing something that never existed appears to be quite challenging. The document opens by referring to the impressive statistic that a “recent […]

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October 8, 2014 · Blogs

Summary of the Commissioners-designate hearings

Between 29 September and 7 October the hearings of the Commissioners-designate in the European Parliament took place. This is a brief summary of the six hearings when the Commissioners-designate were answering to the MEPs’ questions regarding digital rights, privacy issues and trade agreements. Guenther Oettinger (Germany) is the nominee for the Digital Economy and Society […]

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December 17, 2014 · Blogs

TTIP & Co.: Threats to digital rights?

Secrecy in trade negotiations and the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) have been the two most discussed topics of the year, especially in relation to the negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). It was not by chance that the European Commission received 149,399 responses to the ISDS public consultation. Neither was it a […]

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January 14, 2015 · Blogs

Danish government plans to re-introduce session logging

The Danish response to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the Data Retention Directive was fairly limited. On 2 June 2014, the Ministry of Justice produced a legal analysis saying that there was no reason to believe that the Danish data retention law was in conflict with the […]

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March 2, 2015 · Blogs

Infographic: TTIP Resolution

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an agreement which is currently being negotiated between the United States and the European Union. The European Parliament is going to adopt a Resolution on TTIP. A resolution is a political statement which does not have binding effects. This infographic shows how it is going to be […]

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June 3, 2015 · Blogs

General Data Protection Regulation: Moving forward, slowly

The discussions in the EU on the proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are slowly advancing, but the final destination is still unknown. Commissioner Věra Jourová , who is responsible for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality and has the task of ensuring the “swift adoption of the EU data protection reform”, has stated […]

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