October 21, 2015 · Blogs

UN withdraws the report on cyber violence against women

On 24 September, United Nations (UN) Broadband Commission published a report that urged governments and industry to work more effectively together to better protect women and girls who are victims of “cyber violence”. The report claimed that 73% of women have suffered cyberviolence and that ”cyber violence” is as bad as real violence. Only a […]

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November 7, 2016 · Blogs

#4 Freedom not to be manipulated: How to fight weapons of math destruction*

This is the fourth blogpost of our series dedicated to privacy, security and freedoms. In the next weeks, we will explain how your freedoms are under threat, and what you can do to fight back.

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October 25, 2006

Belgium newspaper group continues its actions against search engines

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the decision against Google obtained on 5 September 2006, the Belgium newspaper group Copiepresse has planned new actions against MSN and Yahoo, alleging that they are infringing its copyright by showing excerpts of articles and images from newspapers on their Belgian portals without paying. Copiepresse sent […]

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October 10, 2007

UK fails to properly implement the EU data protection directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) is concerned about the way the UK has implemented the provisions for protecting personal data, according to information revealed by out-law.com following freedom of information requests. An investigation has been initiated by the EC three years ago regarding the way the UK legislation […]

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October 22, 2008

British court: people are bound to reveal computer encryption key

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two persons were denied by the court the right to silence in relation to the encryption key they were asked to reveal to the police. The men had brought as argument to the court that handing over the encrypted key for the data in their computers would […]

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October 23, 2013 · Blogs

France is demanding explanations from the US over NSA surveillance

On 21 October 2013, the French government summoned Charles Rivkin, the US ambassador in France, demanding urgent explanation regarding the revelations by Le Monde that, according to the documents released by Edward Snowden, NSA has intercepted French citizens’ phone and internet communications, at a massive scale. Le Monde revealed on that day that, during a […]

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November 22, 2006

Microsoft in danger of additional fining from the European Commission

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Microsoft faces additional fines for not having yet complied with the 2004 antitrust order through which it was ordered to provide the complete and accurate interface documentation ensuring other companies to write software that would work on systems running Windows . The Commission considered in 2004 that […]

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June 3, 2009

French Government hurries to put HADOPI law into application

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische Regierung drängt auf Umsetzung des HADOPI-Gesetzes | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1417] No sooner has the three strikes law been adopted that the French government issued CCAPs (special administrative specifications) and CCTPs (special technical specifications) which were sent by the Ministry of Culture to the candidate enterprises to put into function […]

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June 2, 2010

Austria puts more pressure on Google Street View

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreich erhöht Druck auf Google Street View | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1973] Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSK) placed a temporary ban on Google’s Street View cars, The DSK intends to sanction the collection of private data from unencrypted wifi networks and therefore wants to see changes to the EU data protection […]

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December 5, 2007 · Blogs

UK Retailers blow the whistle on DRM

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) asks the music industry to get rid of DRM which they consider responsible for the continuously decreasing of online music sales in UK. The industry music seems to ignore the consumers’ preferences who are displeased with the copy protection systems imposing limitations […]

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June 4, 2003

Finnish protest against EU copyright plans

EDRI-member Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) submitted a statement on a proposed EU Directive to harmonise the enforcement of intellectual property laws, including copyrights and patents, across member states. According to EFFI, the new directive is based too unilaterally on studies made for the media industry. For example, the proposal compares piracy to drug trade and […]

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April 5, 2017 · Blogs

Social media companies launch upload filter to combat “terrorism and extremism”

A database set up jointly by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube aims to identify “terrorist and radicalising” content automatically and to remove it from these platforms.

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