November 20, 2018 · Open letters | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Letter to the EU Council: Stand for citizen’s rights and the European digital economy in the copyright negotiations!

On 19 November 2018, EDRi, together with 53 other NGOs, sent a letter to the Council of the European Union. The letter draws attention to the ongoing concerns regarding the proposal on copyright in the Digital Single Market, ahead of a crucial meeting on 23 November.

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November 16, 2011

Will the new flawed EU-US PNR agreement be approved by the EP?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Wird das EU-Parlament dem katastrophalen PNR-Abkommen mit den USA zustimmen? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.22_Wird_das_EU_Parlament_dem_katastrophalen_PNR_Abkommen_mit_den_USA_zustimmen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111116] In May 2011, the European Commission’s Legal Service said the EU-USA PNR agreement on the transfer of personal data of travellers flying from Europe to the US was not compatible with fundamental rights. Five months later […]

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October 5, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Dear MEPs: We need you to protect our privacy online!

They’re hip, they’re slick and they follow you everywhere. They know you like new shoes, playing tennis and tweeting at odd hours of the morning. Do you know what that says about your health, your relationships and your spending power? No? Well, the online companies do. They follow you everywhere you go online, they have […]

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July 5, 2006

Swedish company offers file-sharing damage insurance

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Swedish company Tankafritt offers insurance against file sharing law suits damages and intends to expand to other Scandinavian countries. Magnus Brath, the owner of the company, found it in reaction to the recent copyright infringement cases in Sweden. He also thinks he could develop his business in […]

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January 28, 2009

UK: Phorm threat

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) One particular commercial threat to internet privacy should be looked at very closely by our fellow European Digital Rights campaigners. That threat is Phorm: an invasive and probably illegal web advertising technology that could soon be coming to you. Phorm works by looking at the web traffic […]

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October 16, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Civil society calls for the deletion of the #censorshipmachine

Today, 16 October, European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 56 other civil society organisations, sent an open letter to EU decision makers. The letter calls for the deletion of the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal, pointing out that monitoring and filtering of internet content that it proposes breach citizens’ fundamental rights.

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July 2, 2008

German Protests in over 30 cities against surveillance

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 31 May 2008, privacy activists organized new rallies in more than 30 cities across Germany. Following the November 2007 protests under the motto “Freedom not Fear”(“Freiheit statt Angst”), thousands of citizens participated in this year street actions. Numerous demonstrations, rallies, information events, as well as workshops […]

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July 4, 2007

OECD pushes for privacy co-operation

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new framework has been agreed by the 30 members of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) regarding the co-operation in the enforcement of privacy laws, updating a 27 year old statement (OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data). The […]

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November 30, 2011

US crackdown on global domain names and IP addresses continues

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [US-Razzien gegen Domains und IP-Adressen gehen weiter | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_US-Razzien_gegen_Domains_und_IP-Adressen_gehen_weiter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] US authorities have resumed their “Operation in Our Sites” in order to attempt to fight counterfeit and piracy-related websites. During this second annual “Cyber Monday” crackdown, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has shut down 150 websites from all […]

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October 6, 2020 · Highlights | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Press release: The data retention regimes of France, United Kingdom and Belgium are illegal says CJEU

Note: This quick reaction is based on the Court’s press release. A more thorough analysis of the judgement will be published later this week.

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July 5, 2006

News on CoE activities on Human Rights in the Information Society

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 20 June, Rikke Frank Joergensen (Digital Rights Denmark) and Meryem Marzouki (Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire, IRIS – France) participated as EDRI observers to the 5th Council of Europe meeting of the Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS). Among the many […]

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March 11, 2004

Privacy-penalty for French Scientology critic

In France the owner of a website was convicted to pay a penalty of 450 Euro for publishing personal data without first registering with the Data Protection Authority, the CNIL. On 25 February the appeal-court of Lyon confirmed the earlier ruling, even though the judges decided to suspend payment of the penalty. Remarkably the website-owner, […]

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