Results for node/net neutrality

July 30, 2014 · Blogs

EU Commissioner on ISDS consultation: “An outright attack”

The European Commission’s public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) drew nearly 150 000 responses. The Commission was struck by the demonstration of citizen engagement that the consultation raised, and the massive number of responses paralysed the IT system of the Commission. “We got almost 100,000 […]

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January 18, 2012

Commission confirms illegality of Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommission bestätigt Widerrechtlichkeit der Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Kommission_bestaetigt_Widerrechtlichkeit_der_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] The EDRi-member Quintessenz – Austria has published a leak of an internal paper from the Commission intended to inform DAPIX, the Council’s working party on information exchange and data protection, of the results of the Commission’s consultation in April 2011 on […]

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October 9, 2013 · Blogs

Joint letter on Market Surveillance and Product Safety Regulation

On 2 October 2013, EDRi signed a joint letter together with other civil society groups and organisations (CCIA, EDIMa, EuroISPA, EEA and EMOTA) asking the competent EU institutions to act on the amendments to the draft Regulations on Market Surveillance and Product Safety that could have far-reaching consequences affecting online commerce and Internet intermediaries freedom. […]

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October 9, 2013 · Blogs

Has Switzerland Become A Center Of Spy Technology Exports?

On 26 September 2013, Privacy International sent a letter to Ueli Maurer, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence showing concern regarding the many companies asking for licenses to export surveillance technology from Switzerland. Some media reports revealed in August 2013 that companies such as Gamma International (well known for the notorious malware soft […]

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April 20, 2011

ENDitorial:CoE: A New Notion of Media. For Better or For Worse?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Europarat – Eine neue Begriffsbestimmung für Medien | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_ENDitorial_Europarat] The fourth meeting of the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of experts on new media (MC-NM) was held on 28-29 March 2011 in Strasbourg, with two main points on its agenda. The first one was a discussion on […]

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November 21, 2005

P2P, filesharing and digital rights

IPJustice organised another panel on P2P, filesharing and digital rights on 17 November 2005, with Robin Gross as moderator. The first speaker was the Canadian law professor Michael Geist, also editor of the excellent daily newsletter BNA’s Internet Law News. He started by telling that a few months ago IFPI had sued 2.200 people in […]

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March 28, 2012

CoE's Internet Governance strategy places emphasis on users' rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Internet Governance: Europarat will Rechte der Internetnutzer stärken | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_Internet_Governance_Europarat_will_Rechte_der_Internetnutzer_staerken?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328] On 15 March 2012, the 47 Council of Europe (CoE) member states adopted an Internet governance strategy to protect and promote human rights, the rule of law and pluralistic democracy online. The strategy, which covers 40 lines of […]

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January 22, 2016 · Blogs

Mozilla’s Open Web Fellowship 2016: Join EDRi’s team!

Mozilla’s Open Web Fellows programme, which was launched in 2015, is an international programme designed to link developers, engineers, technologists and programmers with civil society organisations around the world to help protect the Internet. For this second year of the programme, EDRi is proud to be the among the first European organisations to be chosen […]

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January 18, 2006

BEUC's Campaign on Consumers' Digital Rights

In November 2005 BEUC (the coalition of all consumers’ organisations in Europe) has launched a Campaign on Consumers’ Digital Rights. The campaign is meant to show consumers what their digital rights are. BEUC is supported by Zusana Roithova, Member of the European Parliament, Czech Republic. The campaign highlights the complex threats for consumers in today’s […]

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August 20, 2024 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Alternatives to dominant digital services

European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects

The Next Generation Internet initiative has supported Free Software projects with funding and technical assistance since 2018. Despite its proven success, the European Commission made the decision to cut this funding in the current draft for the Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme. This decision highlights the larger problem of the lack of motivated and sustainable public funding for Free Software projects.

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July 14, 2010

Increased Internet censorship in Belarus

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zunehmende Internetzensur in Weißrussland | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2061] The Belarus government has adopted new measures increasing the control of the Internet and restrictions on online freedom of expression. Following Decree no.60 (On measures for improving use of the national Internet network) issued on 1 February 2010 by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, […]

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August 26, 2009

The Pirate Bay – public enemy number one

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [The Pirate Bay – Staatsfeind Nummer 1 | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1495] The Pirate Bay (TBP) seems to be the website in the limelight these days, after the music industry decided to attack it with every legal possibility and in any country they can, with actions in Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland […]

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