Results for node/ACTA

May 19, 2010

New Belarus Internet regulations require compulsory web registration

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue weißrussische Internetverordnungen verlangen verpflichtende Webregistrierung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1931] Based on a decree issued on 1 February 2010 by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Belarus Council of Ministers adopted five resolutions introducing new Internet regulations which require a compulsory registration of all web sites and the collection of personal data of […]

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June 3, 2009

French Government hurries to put HADOPI law into application

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische Regierung drängt auf Umsetzung des HADOPI-Gesetzes | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1417] No sooner has the three strikes law been adopted that the French government issued CCAPs (special administrative specifications) and CCTPs (special technical specifications) which were sent by the Ministry of Culture to the candidate enterprises to put into function […]

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May 19, 2010

Google: We have collected information sent over the WiFi via StreetView

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google: Wir haben über Street View Informationen von WLAN-Netzen gesammelt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1932] Google admitted that the previous information on the data they have gathered with their Street View service was wrong and this included “samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks.” The information comes after […]

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June 3, 2009

WIPO: Visually impaired treaty proposal

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WIPO: Antrag auf ein Abkommen für Sehbehinderte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1418] The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) met from 25 to 29 May in Geneva. This time, the main points on the agenda were the survey on limitations and exceptions and the visually impaired treaty proposal […]

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May 19, 2010

German supreme court fines owner of open WiFi network

Article corrected on 22.05.2010 This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Bundesgerichtshof: Geldstrafe für Besitzer von ungesicherten WLAN-Netzen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1933] The Federal Supreme Court in Germany (Bundesgerichtshof (BGH)) has ruled in a case where an illegal download took place via an low-protected wireless Internet Access point, that the owner of the which should have […]

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June 3, 2009

EU will examine Google Books project

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU wird Googles Buchprojekt prüfen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1419] Macedonian: [ЕУ ќе го преиспита проектот Google Books | http://metamorphosis.org.mk/edri/eu-kje-go-preispita-proektot-google-books.html] The German delegation submitted at the European Council meeting held in Brussels on 28 and 29 May 2009, an information note asking EU to take action against Google’s online library project, […]

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May 19, 2010

ECJ Advocate General: Limitations to the levy on private copies

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH: Generalanwältin will Beschränkungen bei Abgaben auf Privatkopien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1934] Verica Trstenjak, Advocate General at the EU Court of Justice, believes the levy on private copies imposed on digital equipment, devices and media should be limited to cases “where it may be presumed that they are to be […]

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June 3, 2009

Deutsche Telecom investigating the sexual life of job applicants

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Telekom untersucht das Sexualleben von Stellenbewerber | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1420] According to German newspaper Handelsblatt, Deutsche Telecom was keeping records about personal details of job applicants, including details about their sexual life. Similar records on potential employees were also kept in Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary. An anonymous security […]

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May 19, 2010 · Blogs

Facebook under pressure for not observing its privacy principles

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Facebook unter Druck: Datenschutzrichtlinien werden nicht eingehalten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1935] Macedonian: [Фејсбук под притисок поради непочитување на сопствените принципи за приватност | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/edri/fejsbuk-pod-pritisok-poradi-nepochituvanje-na-sopstvenite-principi-za-privatnost-2.html] The recent changes of Facebook’s privacy settings have attracted a lot of negative comments from regular users, but also from Data Protection authorities and NGOs. In […]

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May 19, 2010

Macedonia: New Law on Electronic Communications Proposed

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mazedonien: Neues Gesetz für elektronische Kommunikation verabschiedet | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1936] The amendments to the Law on electronic communications would allow the Ministry of Interior to play the “Big Brother” role, concluded the opposition parties during the debate on this bill that took place in the Assembly on 11 May […]

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June 17, 2009

The French Constitutional Council censures the 3 strikes law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Französische Verfassungsrat zensiert das 3 Treffer-Gesetz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1429] As a result of the appeal of the Socialist Party, the French Constitutional Council decided on 10 June 2009 that 3 strikes (known also as Hadopi) draft law was infringing the Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of […]

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May 19, 2010

UK: Dismantling the database state

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB: Abbau des Datenbankstaates | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1937] The new UK government’s coalition agreement includes a list of measures in order “to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion.” This includes the following: – The scrapping of ID card scheme, the […]

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