Results for node/net neutrality

March 6, 2017 · Blogs

Are net neutrality and privacy Europe’s brilliant way of trumping destructionism?

For the online economy to work, trust and competition are needed. Trust to drive take-up of services and competition to drive down prices and drive up innovation. Privacy The 2016 Eurobarometer (pdf) survey found that nearly 60% of individuals in the EU had avoided certain websites for privacy reasons, while 82% were in favour of […]

February 1, 2016 · Blogs

EDRi’s work in 2015

Information technology has a revolutionary impact on our society. It has boosted freedom of communication and democracy but has also led to new approaches to surveillance and is increasingly used to impose restrictions on fundamental rights. In the past year, we worked hard to ensure that your rights and freedoms in the online environment are […]

March 19, 2014 · Blogs

FAQ: Open Internet provisions in the Telecoms Single Market Regulation

After she won the vote in ITRE yesterday Pilar del Castillo published this FAQ on the controversial Open Internet provisions of the Telecom Single Market Regulation. We took the liberty of commenting on her answers. What is the open internet-net neutrality debate about? The main issue is to ensure that the internet remains open. In […]

June 26, 2015 · Blogs

Press release: Father of net neutrality warns EU’s proposals may “guarantee US dominance” online

Following high-level meetings with the European Commission this week, leading US Professor Tim Wu said he was “worried that the Internet in Europe will never recover if these proposals are adopted.” He added that, in relation to online services, the proposals may guarantee the dominance of US online services in Europe for years to come. […]

October 6, 2010 · Blogs

EDRi's answer to net neutrality consultation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRis Beitrag zur Konsultation über Netzneutralität | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2242] Who gets to decide what you do on the internet: you or your internet service provider? Until recently, the answer was simple: you decide which services and websites you want to visit. This is changing rapidly, however. Most internet providers […]

August 13, 2004 · Blogs

EDRI-gram

February 26, 2014 · Blogs

Net neutrality in the European Parliament – what is happening?

After seven months of discussions, negotiations, lobbying and general confusion, the European Parliament’s Industry Committee was due to have a vote on Monday of this week on net neutrality. So… what happened? Well, nothing happened. Not exactly nothing… quite a long discussion in fact. There were just two items on the agenda, a vote on […]

April 5, 2014 · Blogs

Child pornography and the net neutrality vote – what happened?

Immediately before the vote on the “net neutrality” vote (in the so-called Telecoms Single Market Regulation), there was a sudden storm around the issue of “child pornography”. What exactly was going on? Child pornography The 2011 EU Directive “on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography” took two years of […]

July 27, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Is 5G as terrible as the telecoms providers claim it is?

A collection of big telecoms providers, together with some equipment manufacturers that rely on them for business, recently launched a document called the “5G manifesto”. The document aims to give the European Commission guidance on how to ensure the upgrade of EU mobile communications to its “5th Generation”.

January 14, 2014 · Blogs

Net neutrality campaign SaveTheInternet.eu

A broad coalition of civil rights organisations launched SaveTheInternet.eu, a campaign to protect Net neutrality in Europe. A recent proposal from the European Commission would restrict freedom of speech on the Internet, increase prices and stifle online innovation unless urgent action is taken. Citizens can now contact their Parliamentarians in the European Parliament’s Industry Committee […]

March 23, 2016 · Blogs

Loopholes creeping into the Italian proposal on net neutrality

The Italian legislative proposal on net neutrality is currently being discussed by the Italian Parliament. Notwithstanding general provisions on the equal treatment of traffic for Internet access services, its amended text contains loopholes and provisions that raise concerns. The text, now containing references to EU Regulation 2120/2015 on net neutrality (and mobile roaming), generally fails […]

March 25, 2009

Telecom Package in second reading – dangerous amendments

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Das Telekompaket in der zweiten Lesung – gefährliche Zusätze | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1342] Several alarming amendments to the Telecom Package second reading in the European Parliament are to be voted on 31 March 2009 by ITRE/IMCO committee. The amendments are meant to give additional control to the entertainment industry, telecoms […]