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September 23, 2009

Three strikes law version 2 – one step closer to adoption in France

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Die Annahme der zweiten Version des Drei Treffer-Gesetzes rückt in Frankreich einen Schritt näher | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1522] On 15 September 2009, the French deputies adopted the amended version of the three strikes law (also known as Hadopi 2) by only 55% votes. A day after, the mixed paritary commission […]

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February 13, 2008

Wales said no to ID cards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Welsh Assembly Government proposal for a “smart card” to be used to access public services in Wales was considered by civil liberties groups as a way of introducing identity cards “through the back door” and was rejected by the Liberal Democrats supported by the Labour Party members […]

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June 20, 2012

UK websites might have to identify “trolls”

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Websitenbetreiber sollen „Trolle“ identifizieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Britische_Websitenbetreiber_sollen_Trolle_identifizieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] According to the new UK government proposals, website operators might soon have to identify users who have posted defamatory messages online, so that the victims of the respective messages may take legal action against the “trolls”. Presently in UK, a website […]

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October 18, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online

EU copyright dialogues: The next battleground to prevent upload filters

On 15 October, the European Commission held the first of the stakeholder dialogues, mandated by Article 17 of the EU copyright Directive, inviting 65 organisations to help map current practices, and opening the door for deeper collaboration in the future.

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July 30, 2003

Landwell scares Spanish peer-to-peer users

On 17 July, Landwell, a Spanish legal firm related to Price-Waterhouse-Coopers, issued a press release stating that they were planning to present a lawsuit against 4.000 Spanish Kazaa users for illegally downloading copyrighted material such as movies, songs or software. They announced they had identified a total of 95.000 Spanish file-sharers, and were going to […]

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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Parliament’s work on copyright enforcement – not worth copying

The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) adopted an Opinion on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement, in response to the European Commission’s Communication entitled “Towards a renewed consensus on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: an EU Action Plan”. It starts by offering support for “the” “follow the money” approach. The only problem […]

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May 30, 2018 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy and participation | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech

Join the coordinated calls against EU’s Censorship Machine

Several organisations in different European countries have picked up their phones and mobilised against article 13 of the copyright Directive.

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May 30, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Belgium Constitutional Court decision on the concept of incitement to terrorism

On the 15 March, the Constitutional Court of Belgium issued judgement 31/2018 on the action for the annulment of the law of 3 August 2016 containing various provisions in the fight against terrorism.

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May 4, 2016 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Digital rights in trade agreements | Transparency

EU Trade Secrets Directive: A sad day for the freedom of expression

On 14 April, the European Parliament adopted the deeply flawed EU Trade Secrets Directive. This is a sad state of affairs, that does not reflect well on the quality of the EU legislature, both on process and on substance. On process, it started with Commission-sponsored research that was deeply flawed and misleading. At no point […]

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July 27, 2011

Germany's salaries database bites the dust

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Arbeitnehmerdatenbank ELENA beißt ins Gras | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_Deutsche_Arbeitnehmerdatenbank_ELENA_beisst_ins_Gras?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The German government announced, in a press release on 18 July 2011, that it was going to abandon its central database and registration procedure for salaries, ELENA (“Elektronischer Entgeltnachweis”/ “electronic salary record”), as soon as possible. With this decision, German […]

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March 14, 2007

Cross-border wiretapping proposed by the Swedish Government

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Mikael Odenberg, the Swedish defence minister presented on 8 March 2007 a draft law to the parliament that would give the national defence intelligence agency the power to monitor all cross-border phone calls and email traffic without court order. The proposal, which according to the government, is […]

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April 8, 2015 · Blogs

Data protection and privacy must be excluded from TTIP

Data protection is a contentious issue in the discussions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and other trade or investment agreements, such as the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Now that the European Parliament is preparing to issue a non-legislative resolution on TTIP, various parliamentary committees are giving their input to the committee […]

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