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February 11, 2009

House of Lords Constitution Committee report on surveillance and privacy

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The report Surveillance: Citizens and the State recently issued by the House of Lords Constitution Committee supports privacy and considers executive and legal limits must be imposed to surveillance and data collection. The report is a positive step in the promotion of individual freedom and liberty and […]

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December 22, 2011

PrivacyCamp.eu – UnConference on Privacy and Data Protection

24 January 2012 What? The Privacy-Camp.eu is an event in Brussels on privacy and data protection challenges and possibilities in Europe, launched by European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Law, Science, Technology and Society research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-LSTS) and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL). This event is a free-to-attend pre-conference of Computers, […]

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January 16, 2013 · Blogs

Privacy Camp: civil society warm-up for the CPDP

22 January 2013 in Brussels The Privacy Camp is an event in Brussels on privacy and data protection challenges and possibilities in Europe, launched by European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Law, Science, Technology and Society research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-LSTS) and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL). This event is a free-to-attend pre-conference […]

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October 5, 2016 · Blogs

The GS Media case: An attack on the world wide web

The cliché goes that “hard cases make for bad law”. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment in GS Media case (C‑160/15) is one of the real-life examples of this. It is not easy to sympathise with the losing party, GS Media, who exploits a provocative blog with the name “GeenStijl” (which […]

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March 10, 2010

French Constitutional Court: No to police access to private space CCTV

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französisches Verfassungsgericht: Nein zu Polizeizugriff auf CCTV im privaten Bereich | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1759] On 25 February 2010, the French Constitutional Council gave its decision on the appeal made by a group of more than 60 senators and 60 deputies against the law reinforcing the fight against gang violence and […]

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September 13, 2006

EU Green paper on surveillance technology

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) has adopted a green paper on surveillance technology used by the civil society in the fight against terrorism, that will be open for public consultation until the end of this year. The green paper, resulted from a public conference (Public-Private Security Dialogue: Detection […]

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October 10, 2007

EDRI Campaign on CoE Recommendation Failing to Uphold Freedom of Expression

On October 10, 2007, EDRI issued a statement to express its serious concerns over a new Council of Europe Recommendation on ‘promoting freedom of expression and information in the new information and communications environment’. As other related instruments are currently in preparation by the CoE, EDRI calls for NGOs and groups from all over the […]

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October 22, 2008

International Action Day "Freedom not Fear" – 11.10.2008

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The first worldwide protests against surveillance measures such as the collection of all telecommunications data, the surveillance of air travellers and the biometric registration of citizens were held on 11 October 2008 under the motto “Freedom not Fear – Stop the surveillance mania!”. In at least 15 […]

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October 22, 2008

Freedom not Fear Prague: Do It Yourself Carnival burst in the city center

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 11 October 2008 Prague hosted the DIY Carnival which marched through the city centre in the name of the worldwide initiative “Freedom not Fear”. Starting with a concert of several music groups on the river island Stvanice, more than 1000 people wearing masks outnumbered crowds of […]

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April 19, 2010

Translations of Delete, don’t block – published in The Guardian

The article Delete, don’t block published in The Guardian on 30 March 2010 by Joe McNamee, EDRi’s Advocacy Coordinator has been translated also in several languages – Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Spanish Original Article in English http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/220161-delete-don-t-block Czech http://www.presseurop.eu/cs/content/article/220451-neblokovat-mazat Dutch http://www.presseurop.eu/nl/content/article/220601-blokkeren-van-websites-heeft-geen-enkele-zin French http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/220501-bloquer-les-sites-pedophiles-une-tache-insensee German http://www.presseurop.eu/de/content/article/220691-loeschen-nicht-sperren Italian http://www.presseurop.eu/it/content/article/220641-bloccare-i-siti-pedofili-una-fatica-inutile Polish http://www.presseurop.eu/pl/content/article/220701-usuwac-nie-blokowac Romanian http://www.presseurop.eu/ro/content/article/220411-sterge-nu-bloca […]

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October 25, 2006

Illegal video surveillance in Austria

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During Infolaw legal forum on 17 October, Margot Artner, a Viennese lawyer, expressed concerns regarding the existence of about 100 000 illegal monitoring systems with recording functions in Austria. The estimation was based on information obtained from vendors of monitoring software and installing technicians. Artner has waited […]

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October 17, 2007

List of Signatories-New Council of Europe Recommendation fails to uphold online freedom of expression

Act Now to Protect Freedom of Expression Online: – Sign up in support to this EDRI statement (NGOs and groups from non CoE member States also welcome) Read EDRI Statement: – Čeština : Výzva k akci: Doporučení Rady Evropy neochrání svobodu slova – Deutsch: Die neue Empfehlung des Europarates hält die freie Meinungsäußerung online nicht […]

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