Results for node/net neutrality

October 10, 2012

Portugal: File-sharing for personal use is not infringing the law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Portugal: Filesharing für private Zwecke verstößt nicht gegen das Gesetz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Portugal_Filesharing_fuer_private_Zwecke_verstoesst_nicht_gegen_das_Gesetz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The Portuguese prosecutors division DIAP (Department of Investigations and Criminal Acts) have recently ruled against ACAPOR (the Association of Audiovisual Commerce of Cultural Works and Entertainment of Portugal) in a case the latter initiated in 2011 […]

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May 21, 2014 · Blogs

Finnish Parliament argued over the copyright initiative

On 13 May, the Education and Culture Committee of the Finnish Parliament discussed the citizens’ initiative on an update to the copyright legislation. The main goal of the initiative “Common Sense in Copyright” is to correct the exaggerated interpretations of the current copyright laws, especially regarding network monitoring and compensation. This includes reforming the judicial […]

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June 21, 2006

Betting websites are blocked in Italy

Following a fierce battle between an authority of the Italian State and private european online betting companies over their activity in Italy, a big number of betting websites are officialy blocked for Italian Internet users. Everything began with the 2006 financial law (Law 266/2005) voted by the Parliament under the outgoing Berlusconi government. The law […]

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June 18, 2014 · Blogs

Turkish government to acquire a tool to censor social media?

Turkish media reports that the government intends to buy NetClean software to remove unwanted material from Twitter. The negotiations are said to be ongoing with an exorbitant price tag of 40 million euros. NetClean is a Swedish software company that specializes in providing “intelligence solutions to block, detect and analyse digital media”. The Turkish government […]

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February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Equal access to the internet | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

The human rights impacts of migration control technologies

This is the first blogpost of a series on our new project which brings to the forefront the lived experiences of people on the move as they are impacted by technologies of migration control. The project, led by our Mozilla Fellow Petra Molnar, highlights the need to regulate the opaque technological experimentation documented in and […]

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January 28, 2009

Towards International Data Protection Standards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In October 2008, the 30th International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners in Strassbourg adopted a resolution on the urgent need for protecting privacy in a borderless world, and for reaching a Joint Proposal for setting International Standards on Privacy and Personal Data Protection. Following this […]

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July 18, 2007

Belgium ISP ordered by the court to filter illicit content

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an unprecedented decision, the Court of First Instance in Bruxelles has order Scarlet, a Belgium ISP, to implement technical measures in order to prohibit its users to illegally download music files. The decision comes after a complaint initiated in 2004 by Sabam (Belgian Society of Authors, […]

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December 14, 2011

Russian Government's new attempts to censor the Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Die neuesten Versuche der russischen Regierung das Internet zu zensieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Die_neuesten_Versuche_der_russischen_Regierung_das_Internet_zu_zensieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Especially during the period before and immediately after the Russian parliamentary elections of 4 December 2011, government censorship attacked not only traditional media, but also the Internet, which plays now a very important role in the […]

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February 17, 2009

Open letter to the European Parliament – Telecom Package

Dear Members of the European Parliament, We welcome the various statements by the EU to incorporate citizen’s interests within the policy-making process for the Internet and we would like to draw your attention to some serious concerns we have in respect to the Telecoms Package, which is about to enter the Second Reading stage in […]

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February 9, 2011

Spanish sports streaming domain seized by US authorities without warning

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [US-Behörden entziehen spanischen Sportstreamingseiten die Domain | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_USA_beschlagnahmen_Domain_spanischer_Streamingseite] The US authorities have recently seized, without any warning, the domain names of several sports streaming sites over alleged copyright infringements within the “Operation In Our Sites” action launched at the beginning of July 2010, targeting websites having allegedly offered […]

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August 27, 2008

Italian justice wants to "seize" a foreign website

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an investigation started by the Bergamo Prosecutors, an Order of the Justice for preliminary investigation of the Court of Bergamo was issued on 1 August 2008, asking for the “seizure” of the PirateBay website, hosted outside Italy, for displaying a collection of links to allegedly illegal […]

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September 30, 2015 · Blogs

Civil society calls for reform of trialogues in a letter to EU Commission, Parliament and Council

European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 17 signatory organisations, today sent an open letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Council Secretary-General Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, calling for a major reform of the so-called “trialogues”. “Trialogues cannot be a means for EU institutions to circumvent their obligations with regard to transparency and […]

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