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December 21, 2017 · Blogs

Holiday must reads – our best of 2017

The year 2017 has been a busy one. We’ve been fighting the censorship machine, supporting the adoption of a strong ePrivacy Regulation, working towards a balanced approach to law enforcement online and defending data protection in the context of trade negotiations. We also published 221 articles on our website – to sum up the most […]

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September 13, 2006

ENDitorial : Fighting Mass Surveillance

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Digital Rights Ireland was established last year to further civil rights in the Digital Age. We are challenging the European Institutions and the Irish government through the courts to stop their program of mass surveillance of citizens. Our litigation will have an impact on digital rights across […]

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December 21, 2017 · Blogs

Have yourself happy privacy friendly holidays!

It’s (nearly) holiday time. And with holidays, there come the family’s holiday gatherings holding forth the possibility of awkward or tense moments. But fear not – it is time to take over the conversation and educate your family about digital rights!

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February 1, 2012

The Lobby on ACTA is reaching a new level

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Lobbyarbeit für ACTA erreicht neue Dimensionen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.2_Lobbyarbeit_fuer_ACTA_erreicht_neue_Dimensionen] When the Commission calls for ACTA support, the chosen ones in industry happily follow. Going back a few months, in November 2011, at an International Fragrance Association event, Pedro Velasco Martins from the European Commission (DG Trade, Deputy Head of […]

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September 24, 2008

The EU commissioners ask for a friendly environment in online retailing

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A roundtable on online retailing with the interested private companies, including online music providers, and consumers organisations took place at the European Commission in Brussels on 17 September 2008 with competition commissioner Neelie Kroes and internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy. Ms Kroes expressed her concern regarding the […]

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October 8, 2014 · Blogs

Ex parte domain name seizures in Denmark

At the beginning of October, news media in Denmark reported about the seizure of the domain name raybansolbrillerudsalg.dk, which allegedly had been used for selling counterfeit products to Danish consumers. The Danish e-commerce Foundation, which administers the official Danish accreditation for safe online trading (the e-mark), has compiled a list of 1141 domains accused of […]

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March 25, 2009

Coalition of musicians against criminalizing downloaders

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Koalition von Musikern gegen die Kriminalisierung von Downloadern | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1350] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Коалиција на музичари против лицата… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1414/4/lang,mk/] On 11 March 2009, during its inaugural meeting, the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) including 140 of UK biggest rock and pop stars, expressed concern […]

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January 10, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards

Commission claims that general monitoring is not general monitoring

Will everything we do on the internet be monitored and checked against by a non-transparent mechanism that decides what can be published? It is a real threat, and currently it is coming from an area that patently does not require such draconian measures: EU copyright law. This threat is a peculiar one, because there are […]

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April 8, 2009

Second PrivacyOS Conference

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zweite PrivacyOS Konferenz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1360] Meetings between researchers from universities with representatives from industry, data protection authorities, standardizers from W3C and ISO and NGOs to discuss privacy challenges and develop privacy infrastructures represent the idea behind the European Privacy Open Space. The second PrivacyOS event was held in […]

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March 9, 2011

Final call for petition on government use of citizens' biometrics

This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Последен повик за петиција за владина.. | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/mk/vesti/edri/1894-posleden-povik-za-peticija-za-vladinata-upotreba-na-biometriski-podatoci-na-gragjanite] Deutsch: [Petition gegen die Nutzung biometrischer Daten durch den Staat | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_Petition_gegen_Nutzung_biometrischer_Daten] By means of a petition, the international Alliance ‘Hands off biometrics’ will urge the Council of Europe to start an investigation on the collection and storage of biometric […]

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November 18, 2015 · Blogs

UK Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: Missed opportunity

The UK Government has published a draft of the long-awaited Investigatory Powers Bill. Since the Snowden revelations, civil liberty groups have been calling for a new law that would restrain the UK intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The UK government, however, has been calling for increased surveillance powers since the failure of the draft Communications […]

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March 23, 2011

French DPA fines Google for its Street View case with 100k Euro

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische Datenschutzbehörde straft Google Street View ab | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.6_Frankreich_Geldstrafe_f%C3%BCr_Google_Street_View] CNIL (the French DPA – Data Protection Authority) has recently performed a series of inspections related to the conformity with the French legislation of Google’s gathering data from Wi-Fi networks for its Google Maps, Street View and Latitude services […]

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