Results for node/ACTA

November 18, 2009

Google's Street View faces trial in Switzerland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Googles Street View steht vor einer Klage in der Schweiz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1594] Switzerland continues its actions against Goggle’s Street View service. The Swiss Data Protection Authority has recently expressed its firm intention to bring Google to court on the matter. In August 2009, the Swiss Privacy Authority asked […]

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November 3, 2010 · Blogs

New EDRi members

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue EDRi-Mitglieder | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2322] At the EDRi General Assembly of 30 October 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, EDRi welcomed two new members. The Panoptykon Foundation is a Polish organisation focusing on human rights, in particular the right to privacy, in the clash with modern technology used for surveillance purposes. […]

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November 3, 2010

Google admits it was gathering passwords and emails via StreetView

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google gesteht Sammlung von Passwörtern und E-Mails via StreetView ein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2323] Google faces further investigation in the UK and Italy, after it has publicly admitted in a blog post on 22 October 2010 that its StreetView service has gathered more data than intended, “in some instances entire […]

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May 10, 2006

Webcasting put on a separate track from the new draft WIPO Treaty

At the beginning of May 2006 the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/14) met in Geneva with the aim to decide on recommendations to the WIPO General Assemblies 2006 in September on a draft WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organisations. The proposals for a treaty giving new intellectual property rights […]

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November 3, 2010

ECJ decides private copying levies are not allowed for business use

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [‘Abgabe für Privatkopien’ laut EuGH auf gewerbliche Nutzer nicht anwendbar | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2324] On 21 October 2010, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that private copying levies on blank CDs, MP3 players and other digital media are allowed under EU copyright law only when charged on goods sold […]

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November 3, 2010 · Blogs

EC refers Austria to ECJ for lack of independence of DPA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommission verklagt Österreich wegen unzureichender Unabhängigkeit seiner Datenschutzbehörde | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2325] Since a complaint was filed by the data protection association Arge Daten back in October 2003, the lack of adequate independence of the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSK – Datenschutzkommission) has been on the European Commission’s (EC) agenda. […]

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November 3, 2010

Is YouTube back online in Turkey?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ist YouTube in der Türkei wieder online? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2326] After almost three years of blocking, Turkey has finally lifted its ban on YouTube. Google’s site was blocked in 2007 for videos considered insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s founder. In 2007, Turkey’s parliament adopted a law allowing […]

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December 2, 2009

Civil liberties groups ask EU to repeal data retention directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bürgerrechtsgruppen fordern die Widerrufung der Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung von der EU| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1606] Civil liberties groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the German Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat) are calling on the European Union to repeal the 2006 directive on the data retention of electronic communications. In […]

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November 3, 2010

Free Culture 2010 in Barcelona

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [‘Free Culture’ 2010 in Barcelona | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2327] Barcelona was the capital of free culture at the end of October 2010, with two events – Oxcars and then the Free Culture Forum (FCF) – organized by Exgae for awarding and promoting free culture concepts across Europe and beyond. The […]

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December 2, 2009

Romanian Constitutional Court decision against data retention

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Urteil des rumänischen Verfassungsgerichts gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1607] The decision of the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) against the data retention law was finally published in the Official Monitor on 23 November 2009. The motivation of the court, which was made public only with a few days before its publication […]

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November 3, 2010

Continuing the battle against data retention

This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Продолжува битката против задржување.. | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/prodolzhuva-bitkata-protiv-zadrzhuvanjeto-na-podatoci.html] Deutsch: [Fortsetzung im Kampf gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2328] During the 32nd Annual Conference of the Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners “Privacy: Generations” that took place on 27 and 28 October 2010, EDRi-member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called for the abolition of […]

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December 2, 2009

Spain warned by Commissioner Reding for cutting off Internet access

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommissarin Reding verwarnt Spanien vor der Unterbindung von Internetzugängen| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1608] On 23 November 2009, at the Spanish Telecom Regulatory Authority (CMT) international meeting, Viviane Reding warned that the European Commission could take action against Spain if the government decided to cut the Internet access of file-sharers. “Repression alone […]

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