Results for node/net neutrality

October 24, 2007 · Blogs

New Italian draft law – to disguise state censorship

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As it already happened six years ago with the infamous law 62/2001, a new law draft on the “re-arrangement of publishing”, prepared by the Italian government on 3 August 2007 and now entering parliament procedure, clearly intends to enforce bureaucratic and financial burdens, as well as sanctions, […]

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November 8, 2006 · Blogs

Greek blog aggregator admin arrested

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Antonis Tsipropoulos, the administrator of a Greek blog aggregation website, blogme.gr, had his house raided, his hard drive seized and was himself arrested by the Greek cybercrime division, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a […]

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November 8, 2006

Fileshares get different treatment in Europe's courts

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A few interesting decisions regarding the copyright infringement by fileshares have been taken in the last weeks by courts from different states in Europe. Usage of p2p programms has been considered totally different in decisions in Finland, Sweden and Spain. At the end of October 2006, a […]

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October 9, 2013 · Blogs

The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics under strong surveillance

According to documents collected by two Russian journalists, experts in security services, and shared with The Guardian, the Russian Government is prepared to deploy one of the most spectacular and invasive surveillance and spying system that will affect not only the athletes or spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February 2014. Procurement documents […]

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February 21, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

General monitoring of communications to block “undesirable” content

Increasingly, demands are made that “something be done” about “undesirable” and “harmful” material on the internet: online child abuse images and other criminal pornography, “extremism”, “incitement to violence”, “hate speech”, – and more recently, “fake news”. Organisations representing holders of intellectual property (IP) rights similarly demand that measures be taken to prevent the sharing of […]

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March 13, 2013 · Blogs

Total transparency on ACTA and TAFTA documents

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA und TAFTA: Absolute Transparenz ist gefragt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.5_ACTA_und_TAFTA_Absolute_Transparenz_ist_gefragt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130319] In a letter sent to the president of the European Parliament, Linus Nordberg, a Swedish advocate, developer for Tor and representative of the EDRi-member Association for Digital Liberties from Sweden (Föreningen för digitala fri- och rättigheter – DFRI) asks […]

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November 22, 2006

Draft Audiovisual Directive limited to the TV-like services on the web

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the EU’s Council of Ministers meeting on 14 November a new version of the Audiovisual Media Services directive has been agreed, that limits the new regulation regarding video on the Internet only to the TV-like services (linear services). The video clips on the Internet will not […]

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November 22, 2006

UK biometric passports project set back by simple cloning possibilities

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK Government faces now a big problem related to the introduction of the new biometric passports as recently it has been proven these passports can be easily and very cheaply copied by means of a microchip reader that can be legally bought on the Internet. As a […]

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November 21, 2005

Panel on freedom of expression

Together with the internet blogging project Global Voices online, the Dutch NGO Hivos organised a two day program on 17 and 18 November on freedom of expression. On the first day two panels and two lectures were scheduled, the second day was devoted to a workshop on secure communication tools for NGOs. It was only […]

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December 3, 2008

Changes in the telecom package adopted by the Council

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A political agreement on the telecom package was reached by the EU Council on 27 November 2008. Even though the final text does not support the 3 strikes measures proposed by the French Presidency, it has also deleted some important amendments adopted by the European Parliament in […]

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March 27, 2013 · Blogs

No intermediary liability for bloggers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Blogger haften nicht für Kommentare Dritter | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.6_Blogger_haften_nicht_fuer_Kommentare_Dritter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] Bloggers should not be considered liable for third-party comments on their posts in cases when they have not specifically intervened in the content at issue, as doing so would strongly affect freedom of expression. This is the clear position of […]

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May 8, 2019 · On the ground | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Austria: New “responsibility” law will lead to self-censorship

Shortly after the EU gave green light to upload filters, two laws were proposed in Austria, with the alleged goal of tackling online hate speech, that rang the alarm bells.

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