July 3, 2013 · Blogs

Future of Copyright Contest 2013

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Wettbewerb ‘Future of Copyright’ 2013 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.13_Wettbewerb_Future_of_Copyright_2013?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130703] This year, the EDRi member Modern Poland Foundation is again asking people all over the world about their vision of the future of copyright. There are now 4 days to go before the end of the crowd founding campaign and there […]

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January 16, 2023 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance

Looking back at 2022: Protecting and advancing digital rights in times of crisis

In moments where we should be urgently tackling the climate crisis and working towards peace and justice worldwide, state funds and efforts seem to reinforce militarisation, fuel the climate crises and injustice. In response to increased surveillance and control practices coming from governments and private companies, EDRi members and partners have put forward a vision in which people live with dignity and vitality. What have we collectively achieved in 2022?

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July 25, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality

EU Council considers undermining ePrivacy

On 19 October 2017, the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee adopted its report on the ePrivacy Regulation.

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July 25, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Freedom of expression online

The EU gets another opportunity to improve copyright rules

The EU gets another opportunity to improve a copyright proposal that would have threatened the open web.

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December 14, 2021 · Blogs | Press releases | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Has the Parliament effectively wielded the Digital Services Act to challenge platform power? The verdict is, somewhat.

Today, the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) has approved its much-anticipated report on the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA affects how intermediaries like Google and Amazon regulate and influence user activity on their platforms, including people's ability to exercise their rights and freedoms online. The DSA also aims at limiting the negative impact of the most powerful online platforms on people and puts limits on how EU Member States can interfere with people’s free expression online.

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May 7, 2008

More control over the Internet wanted in Russia

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Russian prosecutor’s office wants to extend the anti-extremism laws to the Internet, proposing an amendment to the rules that presently govern printed media on the basis of which newspapers considered by the court to have published extremist material can be shut down. In terms of the […]

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April 17, 2024 · Blogs | Op-eds | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Privacy is not for sale: Meta must stop charging for people’s right to privacy

Ahead of a crucial opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) – a grouping of the EU’s chief privacy regulators - on Meta’s plan to charge for privacy, the European Commission has opened an investigation that we hope will cast light on the unlawfulness of Meta’s so-called ‘Pay or Okay’ model, which has become the ‘talk of the town’ in Brussels.

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September 18, 2025 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance

EDRi-gram, 17 September 2025

What has the EDRi network been up to over the summer? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: age verification gains traction, EU’s deregulation spree risks entire digital rulebook, & more!

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January 12, 2011

RapidShare wins another alleged copyright infringement case

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [RapidShare gewinnt einen weiteren Fall angeblicher Urheberrechtsverletzung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2497] RapidShare, the Swiss based file-hosting service, won the appeal against the computer game distributor Atari Europe. In March 2010, Düsseldorf Regional Court ruled that the company had not taken sufficient measures to hinder the distribution of the computer game […]

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February 26, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Copyright stakeholder dialogues: Compromise, frustration, dead end?

The second phase of the stakeholder dialogues on Article 17 of the Copyright Directive finished in December 2019. The two meetings of the third phase, focusing on the provisions of Article 17, were held on 16 January and 10 February 2020.

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February 19, 2019 · Op-eds | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi’s Press Review 2018

During the past year, our work to defend citizens’ rights and freedoms online has gained an impressive visibility – we counted more than three hundred mentions! – in European and international media. Below, you can find our press review 2018. JANUARY 01/01 EU i linedans mellem desinformation og censur (Mandag Morgen)10/01 Does Software Piracy Hurt Sales? […]

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April 1, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards

Competition law: what to do against Big Tech’s abuse?

This is the second article in a series dealing with competition law and Big Tech. The aim of the series is to look at what competition law has achieved when it comes to protecting our digital rights, where it has failed to deliver on its promises, and how to remedy this.

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