May 7, 2008

Automatic face recognition in UK airports

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Starting this summer, the UK Border Agency will use facial recognition technology at automated unmanned gates. A machine would accept or reject the match between the scan and the computer information on people with biometric passports. The pilot project will be open to UK and EU citizens […]

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February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Equal access to the internet | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

The human rights impacts of migration control technologies

This is the first blogpost of a series on our new project which brings to the forefront the lived experiences of people on the move as they are impacted by technologies of migration control. The project, led by our Mozilla Fellow Petra Molnar, highlights the need to regulate the opaque technological experimentation documented in and […]

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July 2, 2014 · Blogs

We are not accusing the German minister of interior of lying

On 30 June 2014, Germany’s Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière announced an initiative to help move forward the proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation. EDRi applauds this “initiative”, which comes after Germany has worked assiduously to stop progress in the Council. According to internal Council documents obtained by the Spiegel in December […]

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July 18, 2007

BEUC expresses concern over DoubleClick acquisition by Google

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A joined letter regarding the proposed DoubleClick acquisition by Google was sent to the Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes by BEUC (the coalition of all consumers’ organisations in Europe) together with other consumer protection organizations from Germany, Italy and Spain. The letter says that “the proposed transaction may […]

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July 18, 2007

Traffic data could be retained for one year in Spain

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish Plenary Congress of Deputies approved on 21 June 2007 the draft law on the retention of traffic data requiring fixed and mobile telephony, but also ISPs to retain data for a period of one year and to make it available to law enforcement or secret […]

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July 30, 2008

Hungarian Competition Office challenges the Microsoft deal

The public procurement procedure of 25 billion HUF (approx. 100 million euro) for the supply of “Microsoft or other equivalent solutions” was published in January 2008 in the Tenders Electronic Daily, Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU. After the successful closing of the procedure, three companies distributing open source software challenged the result. […]

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July 1, 2009

Article 29 Working Party on online social networking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Arbeitskreis Artikel 29 äußert sich zu Social Networking| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1449] Article 29 Working Party issued on 22 June 2009 an opinion on how European privacy laws affect social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace. The opinion states the social networking sites should be responsible for the compliance […]

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January 15, 2014 · Blogs

European Parliament’s draft report condemns US & UK intelligence services’ mass surveillance

Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence agency contractor who has revealed NSA documents showing mass surveillance programmes like Prism operated by America’s NSA intelligence agency and Tempora by the UK’s GCHQ, is to give testimony in front of the European Parliament (EP). It is not yet known when this will take place and the conditions […]

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July 13, 2011 · Blogs

Legal victory for trademark litigants over intermediary liability

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Markenschutz-Verfechter erringen juristischen Sieg in Sachen Providerhaftung | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Markenschutz_Verfechter_erringen_juristischen_Sieg_in_Sachen_Providerhaftung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] On 12 July 2011, the European Court of Justice ruled on the liability of online marketplaces for trademark infringements by users and the scope of the hosting safe harbour of the E-Commerce Directive. The case results from legal proceedings […]

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June 19, 2013 · Blogs

EDRi letter to the US Embassy on PRISM

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [PRISM: EDRi-Schreiben an US-Botschafter | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_PRISM_EDRi-Schreiben_an_US-Botschafter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] On 18 June 2013, EDRi delivered the following letter in a frank exchange of views with the US Embassy on PRISM & data protection: European Digital Rights would like to thank you for the invitation to meet with you today. We welcome […]

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June 13, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data

Wiretapping & data access by foreign courts? Why not!

After the European Commission published two new legislative proposals for law enforcement authorities to be able to reach across EU borders to have access to data directly from service providers, the EU Member States started working on this new “e-evidence” package. The proposal has so far become the object of wide-spread criticism from service providers, […]

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September 18, 2017 · Blogs

Cross-border access to data: EDRi delivers international NGO position to Council of Europe

Today, 18 September 2017, a global coalition of civil society organisations, led by European Digital Rights (EDRi), submitted to the Council of Europe its comments on how to protect human rights when developing new rules on cross-border access to electronic evidence (“e-evidence”). The Council of Europe is currently preparing an additional protocol to the Cybercrime […]

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