November 3, 2010 · Blogs

EC refers Austria to ECJ for lack of independence of DPA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommission verklagt Österreich wegen unzureichender Unabhängigkeit seiner Datenschutzbehörde | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2325] Since a complaint was filed by the data protection association Arge Daten back in October 2003, the lack of adequate independence of the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSK – Datenschutzkommission) has been on the European Commission’s (EC) agenda. […]

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April 23, 2008

Setback for IFPI in its case against PirateBay

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) sued the PirateBay at the end of March 2008 demanding 1.6 million euro in damages as compensation for 24 albums, new elements have occurred forcing IFPI to limit its demands. The Stockholm District Court indicted the four PirateBay […]

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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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December 2, 2009

Legal Complaints and Petition Against Second French "Horror Database"

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rechtliche Klagen und Petition gegen zweite französische „Horror-Datenbank“| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1611] The French coalition of groups, associations, trade unions and political parties from the opposition is making it clear after its first successful ‘No to EDVIGE’ in 2008 led to the withdrawal of the EDVIGE intelligence database by the French […]

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October 19, 2011

European action week on airline passenger surveillance

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Aktionswoche gegen Fluggastüberwachung | www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.20_Europaeische_Aktionswoche_gegen_Fluggastueberwachung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111028] Credit card details, hotel bookings, IP addresses, mobile phone numbers, and travel details: all this information is currently being transferred to law enforcement agencies in third countries. The storage and automatic processing of our data is supposed to enable law enforcement agencies […]

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November 17, 2010

Data retention regime in discussion all over Europe

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Diskussion der Vorratsdatenspeicherung quer durch Europa | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2357] While in Germany the Minister of Justice rejects the current data retention regime, Sweden is preparing to implement it. In the meantime, the European Commission is organizing a public debate on the review of the directive, but has delayed its […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

“Our Data, Our Lives”: The 2013 Public Voice Conference in Warsaw

Like most digital rights or information technologies conferences held since Edward Snowden’s revelations early June, the PRISM scandal and the NSA surveillance program were intensively discussed at the 2013 Public Voice Conference. The conference was held on 24 September 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, in conjunction with the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners on 25-26 September. As […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

Surveillance scandal in discussion at the United Nations

The surveillance scandal has now reached the United Nation’s Human Rights Council, which opened its 24th session last week to a volley of questions about privacy and spying, many of them targeted at the United States and United Kingdom. (That’s perhaps not surprising, since U.N. representatives were among those listed as being monitored by the […]

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November 17, 2010 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Net neutrality – wait and see the end of the open Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Netzneutralität – Warten auf das Ende des offenen Internets | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2364] At the joint European Parliament and European Commission net neutrality summit in Brussels on 11 November there was a clear political message – that interference with Internet traffic is permissible as long as companies tell their […]

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July 1, 2015 · Blogs

AFET Committee adopts its Report on Human rights and technology

The European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) adopted its Report on “Human rights and technology: the impact of intrusion and surveillance systems on human rights in third countries” on 26 May 2015. The Rapporteur, Marietje Schaake (ALDE, Netherlands) welcomed the adoption of the Report and stressed that “the European Union must assess the impact […]

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July 7, 2016 · Blogs

Copyfail #7: Not allowing research via “commercial” text and data mining

This article is the seventh in the series presenting Copyfails. The EU is reforming its copyright rules. We want to introduce you to the main failures of the current copyright system, with suggestions on how to fix them. You can find all the Copyfails here. How has it failed? We live in an era where […]

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November 2, 2011 · Blogs

Vote on Net neutrality in the European Parliament

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Abstimmung zur Netzneutralität im Europäischen Parlament | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Abstimmung_zur_Netzneutralitaet_im_Europaeischen_Parlament?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] The industry committee (ITRE) of the European Parliament unanimously adopted the resolution on the open Internet and net neutrality on 20 October 2011. All compromise amendments as well as amendments 7, 8, 45, 46, 47, 56, 57 (from the full […]

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