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December 22, 2010 · Blogs

A snapshot of the EDRi's Brussels Office

The EDRi Brussels office is the main link between the association and the political institutions of the European Union – the European Parliament, European Commission and the Council of the European Union. As an office representing 29 organisations from 18 countries, EDRi Brussels must follow the development of legislative and non-legislative initiatives in the institutions […]

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July 27, 2016 · Blogs

German surveillance laws: placebos, poison, and also bad sport

The German parliament, the Bundestag, voted in favour of two contentious surveillance laws in July 2016. These are not only disappointing with regard to their content but also as cases of dubious parliamentary procedure. Those observing international politics may be familiar with the phrase “burying bad news”. The phrase gained notoriety through leaked emails from […]

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November 21, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

ENDitorial: Facebook can never get it right

In 2017, a man posted live footage on Facebook of a murder he was committing. The platform decides whether you get to see this shocking footage or not – an incredibly tricky decision to make. And not really the kind of decision we want Facebook to be in charge of at all.

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June 18, 2014 · Blogs

Neelie Kroes’ campaign to kill net neutrality

Two months have passed since the European Parliament adopted amendments to enshrine net neutrality in EU law at the beginning of April 2014. The Telecoms Single Market proposal is now being reviewed by the Council (Member States) of the EU. Rather than sitting back and waiting for the Council to carry out its work, Vice […]

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July 2, 2008

ENDitorial: Sweden is listening to all internet and phone conversations

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In Denmark we already have Data Retention in place and the rest of Europe will follow soon. That means that our own countries demand that Internet companies and phone companies log who we phone, email with, chat with, which websites we visit, etc. This is something that […]

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January 28, 2009

France: Who have they forgotten to control today?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, has published on 20 January 2009 a report on a massive control operation it conducted on the STIC (“Système de traitement des infractions constatées” or “Recorded offences treatment system”), a huge police database. The report reveals that the STIC is […]

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July 4, 2007

German legislation troubles the big Internet companies

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Yahoo and Google seems to have problems adapting their business to the tough requirements of the German law regarding content harmful to minors and the implementation of the data retention directive, respectively. Yahoo has recently changed the way the content filter setting for its photo-sharing service Flickr […]

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November 30, 2011

Italian Police blocks sites that had banners to alleged illegal websites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italienische Polizei sperrt Seiten mit Bannerwerbung für mutmaßlich illegale Inhalte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Italienische_Polizei_sperrt_Seiten_mit_Bannerwerbung_fuer_mutmasslich_illegale_Inhalte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] The Italian cybercrime police, Guardia di Finanza Agropoli, has recently DNS blocked a series of websites that were offering links to content indexed on BitTorrent, cyberlockers and eDonkey networks. Five of the blocked sites belonged to […]

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July 2, 2014 · Blogs

Irish High Court refers the Facebook/PRISM case to the CJEU

On 18 June 2014 Ireland’s High Court referred the request to investigate Facebook’s international headquarters in Ireland over its involvement in the PRISM scandal to the European Court of Justice (CJEU). CJEU was asked to review the case and to clarify whether the social network’s actions are compatible with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

EDRi identifies key challenges to freedom of expression online

On 13 November 2014, EDRi met with the European External Action Service (EEAS) for a civil society consultation on the EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline. The EEAS aims at improving the Guidelines in the future and was seeking input to that end. EDRi had already outlined its position in […]

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October 17, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online

EU Council legal services unclear about censorship filters

On 16 October 2017, Politico leaked the response from the Legal Services of the Council of the European Union (CLS) to the questions raised by six member states about the legality of the upload filter proposal in the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal. As the censorship filter is about restricting fundamental rights, it […]

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January 27, 2010

Bank data deal under heavy fire from EU Parliamentarians

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bankdatenabkommen unter schwerem Beschuss der EU-Abgeordneten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1677] The debate on the bank data (“SWIFT”) agreement in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs yesterday and today showed a clear conflict between parliamentarians on the one side and the EU Council as well as […]

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