Results for node/net neutrality

October 4, 2019 · Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

CJEU ruling on fighting defamation online could open the door for upload filters

Today, on 3 October 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its ruling in the case C‑18/18 Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook. The case is related to injunctions obliging a service provider to stop the dissemination of a defamatory comment. Some aspects of the decision could pose a threat for freedom of expression, in particular that of political dissidents who may be accused of defamatory practices.

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January 16, 2013 · Blogs

Major data leak at the Belgium railway company

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schwere Datenpanne bei der belgischen Bahn | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_Schwere_Datenpanne_bei_der_belgischen_Bahn?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] At the end of December 2012, the personal data of more than one million customers of the Belgian train company SNCB Europe were available on-line, at a simple query in a search engine. The data contained in the SNCB database […]

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October 3, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Profiling practices

Event summary: Encryption in the age of surveillance

The EDRi-organised event on encryption, surveillance, and privacy brought together key policymakers, academics, activists and members of the press to build a better understanding of why encryption is important for people and democracy.

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December 20, 2017 · Blogs

EDRi Awards 2017

For the first time and with great solemnity, EDRi presents the first ever 4th edition of our annual awards.

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October 19, 2016 · Blogs

Censorship in Italy: Child protection is the excuse again

One of the recurrent attempts to control the internet is the excuse of “child protection”. Italy has moved a step to this direction, and is going to release a new law against “cyberbullying” that confirms this new trend. This new project follows the same well-worn, failed approach.

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January 23, 2012 · Publications

Booklet: How the internet works

This booklet is intended to provide policy-makers with a basic overview of Internet and Internet-related technologies. The aim is to provide a user-friendly reference guide to some of the key technologies that are at the core of the Internet. We hope that this will provide a valuable reference tool, cutting through the jargon and demonstrating […]

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June 8, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

Civil society warn against rushed global treaty for intrusive cross-border police powers

European Digital Rights (EDRi), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and 40 other civil society organisations urge the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Parliamentary Committee (PACE) to give them more time to provide much-needed analysis and feedback on the flawed cross border surveillance treaty recently approved by its Cybersecurity Committee (T-CY).

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November 4, 2015 · Blogs

Minister of Interior and National Police Force win Dutch BBA 2015

Amsterdam hosted four big privacy conferences in October 2015: the Amsterdam Privacy Conference and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, both for academia, the International Privacy Conference for regulators, and the Dutch Big Brother Awards, organised by EDRi member Bits of Freedom on 29 October in Stadsschouwburg. The winner of the Big Brother Audience Award is […]

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January 10, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Commission claims that general monitoring is not general monitoring

Will everything we do on the internet be monitored and checked against by a non-transparent mechanism that decides what can be published? It is a real threat, and currently it is coming from an area that patently does not require such draconian measures: EU copyright law. This threat is a peculiar one, because there are […]

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September 27, 2006

Global Freedom of Information Survey

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy International released on 20 September 2006 a comprehensive review of Freedom of Information (FOI) Laws and practices in nearly 70 countries around the world, including almost 40 countries from Europe Titled “Freedom of Information Around the World 2006 Global Survey of Access to Government Information Laws”, […]

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March 9, 2011

Four strikes law returns to Belgium

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Four-Strikes kommen zurück | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.5_Four_Strikes_Gesetz_in_Belgien] After the proposition of a Belgian version of the French three strikes law was left aside due to the withdrawal from the political life of the deputy that proposed it in 2010, a new proposal was tabled on 27 January 2011 by […]

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October 14, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Q&A: EU’s top court rules that UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes must respect privacy

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued judgments in three cases in the UK, France and Belgium. Privacy International answers some of the main questions.

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