November 21, 2012

IE Domain Registry confirms hijacking of the DNS nameservers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [IE Domain Registry bestätigt Angriff auf DNS Nameserver | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_IE_Domain_Registry_bestaetigt_Angriff_auf_DNS_Nameserver?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 9 October 2012, those who tried to visit Google.ie and Yahoo.ie were sent to an Indonesian webserver controlled by hackers. After having investigated the security incident, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) confirmed on November 2012 that unauthorised […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

Three French NGOs challenge French international surveillance

On 3 September 2015, the non-profit Internet Service Providers (ISPs) French Data Network (FDN) and the FDN Federation (FFDN) as well as a digital rights advocacy group La Quadrature du Net announced the introduction of two legal challenges before the French Council of State against the Internet surveillance activities of French foreign intelligence services, Directorate-General […]

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July 5, 2006

Recommanded Reading

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Michelle Child – Notes of Barcelona Conference “The Proposed WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: From the Rome Convention to Podcasting” – 21 June 2006 http://downontheriver.blogspot.com/2006/06/notes-of-wipo-barcelona-seminar.html Report on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2005 http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/EU-funrights-report05.pdf European Commission opened an online public […]

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July 4, 2007

ENDitorial : The End of Multilateral Broadcast Treaty

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The summer special session of United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related rights (SCCR) ended with an outcome that effectively killed the proposed treaty for protection of broadcast organisations (Broadcast Treaty). The committee called off the Diplomatic Conference that was supposed […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

Terrorists behind the attacks in France not radicalised “online”

On 26 August, the French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve announced in an interview that “90 percent of those drifting into terrorism do it on the Internet”. It is not the first time that Cazeneuve mentioned this figure – he used the same statistics already on numerous occasions, mainly to defend measures contained in […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Racism in Germany – Facebook should do “more”

Xenophobic attacks against refugees in Germany have dramatically increased over the past two years. In the first six months of 2015, German authorities counted 150 attacks on asylum-seeker shelters throughout the country. On 27 August, in an attempt to address the situation, Germany’s minister of justice and consumer protection urged Facebook to take down racist […]

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July 16, 2008

Liberty groups win long court battle against UK wiretapping

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After nine years of legal battle by civil rights groups in London and Dublin, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on 1 July 2008 that UK Government had violated Human Rights by tapping their communications between 1990 and 1997. Liberty groups, along with British Irish Rights […]

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February 11, 2009

Protests against data retention in Bulgaria

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the decision at the end of last year when the Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) annulled article 5 of the national legislation that implements the Data retention Directive, new initiatives by the Bulgarian authorities raise concerns in relation with data retention. Thus, in 2009, only a […]

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February 10, 2010

France and Denmark may filter online gambling websites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich/Dänemark: Sperren für Glücksspielseiten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1704] An amendment to the draft law on the opening of the market of online gambling was introduced to the French Senate Commission for culture and communication, in order to give the administration the power to apply filters to gambling sites without a […]

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July 30, 2008

Serbian Telecom Agency publishes Internet traffic interception rules

Serbia’s Republic Agency for Telecommunications (RATEL) published on 21 July 2008 a document of Instructions for Technical Requirements for Subsystems, Devices, Hardware and Installation of Internet Networks. The document explains the technical requirements for authorized monitoring of some telecom services and provides a list of obligations for the telecom operators. According with the present text, […]

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February 23, 2011

EESC condemns body scanners as a breach of fundamental rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EWSA missbilligt Körperscanner als Verstoß gegen die Grundrechte | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.4_EWSA_verurteilt_Nacktscanner] On 16 February 2011, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) issued its opinion on the use of body scanners in EU airports. The EESC has opposed the eventual adoption of any measures that would introduce body scanners […]

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August 27, 2008

Dispute between UK government and EU over the use of PNR

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK Government fights EU proposals to restrict the way it uses passenger name record (PNR) information to monitor immigration, claiming that the data it collects is crucial to control cross-border movements. With the EU planning to make all European states share PNR data, UK government argues there […]

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