Results for node/net neutrality

June 16, 2010

Possible solutions for remunerating content creators in the digital era

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Urheberrecht im digitalen Zeitalter | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2001] On 8 June 2010, Green Party Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) hosted the conference Financing Culture in the Digital Era on how to balance easy public access to culture with guaranteed remuneration for content providers. The purpose of the meeting was […]

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July 15, 2009

Hadopi 2 adopted very fast by the French Senate

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hadopi 2 vom französischen Senat sehr schnell angenommen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1467] On 8 July 2009, in a very rapid session, the French Senate adopted the new three strikes draft law, so called Hadopi 2. The only difference between the first version of the law and Hadopi 2 is that […]

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July 29, 2009

Hadopi 2's final vote is postponed till 15 September

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Endabstimmung über Hadopi 2 auf den 15. September verschoben | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1479] The French deputies had only a few days before the summer vacation to debate the new text of the three strikes law (called Hadopi 2) that was adopted by the Senate on 8 July 2009. As the […]

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December 5, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data

Growing concerns on “e-evidence”: Council publishes its draft general approach

On 30 November 2018, the Council of the European Union published a draft text for its general approach on the proposal for a regulation on European Production and Preservation Orders in criminal matters – also known as “e-evidence”. The text is to be adopted by EU Member States, represented in the Council.

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November 9, 2023 · Blogs | Highlights | Press releases | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

A coalition of six organisations takes EU’s dangerous terrorist content regulation to court

On 8 November 2023, a coalition of six organisations filed a complaint before the French supreme administrative court, the Conseil d’État, against the French decree implementing the Regulation on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online.

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April 19, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

France becomes the first European country to legalise biometric surveillance

EDRi member and Reclaim Your Face partner La Quadrature du Net charts out the chilling move by France to undermine human rights progress by ushering in mass algorithmic surveillance, which in a shocking move, has been authorised by national Parliamentarians.

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Are the US-EU data agreements still alive?

Late on the first day of Computers, Data Protection and Privacy (CPDP) Conference on 25 January 2017, word came through that US President Donald Trump had issued Executive Order (EO), “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States”, which included the following: Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, […]

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May 5, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

France’s highest court validates mass surveillance in the long term

On 21 April, the Conseil d’Etat, France’s highest administrative court, released its decision on mass telecom surveillance. EDRi's member La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) shares its first impressions on this disconcerting ruling which puts the European Union’s legal order at risk.

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September 8, 2021 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Member in the Spotlight: Xnet

EDRi's member Xnet is an activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and networked democracy.

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February 15, 2006

Civil Rights and Consumer Protection in ICANN's policies

In a public call to action released on 13 February 2006, Annette Muehlberg, European member of At-large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and co-chair network new media asked for public support in building up a regional structure to represent individual’s interests and concerns. The petition with the title “Help to strengthen Civil Rights and Consumer Protection in […]

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July 2, 2008

ICAAN supports custom domains and discusses whois privacy issues

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During its 32nd International Public Meeting in Paris of 22-26 June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the proposal to expand the world’s Domain Name System. Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s president and CEO, said in a statement: “The Board today accepted a recommendation […]

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November 8, 2006

ENDitorial : IGF – UN innovation or just another conference ?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) From 30 October to 2 November approximately 1500 people gathered in Athens, Greece for the first global internet governance forum (IGF). The IGF is one of the outcomes of the Tunis Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2005, with the aim of creating a new global […]

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