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November 21, 2005

Civil Society Tunis declaration

APC, the association for progressive communication, reports on the civil society press conference on 18 November. Civil society representatives from all continents lined up on a panel to deliver a stark closing statement. The civil society statement was not finalised, but four points are addressed: internet governance, human rights, financing and development, and follow-up. The […]

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May 17, 2010

Comic Book – Under Surveillance

The comic book “Under surveillance” is an information and awareness tool for young adults created in the European project “Sensitization and information of young European citizens on the protection of their personal data”, where EDRi was one of the partners. The project is coordinated by the French League of Human Rights (LDH), in partnership with […]

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March 19, 2013 · Blogs

Parliament Legal Affairs Committee adopts improved position on privacy legislation

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) has adopted its Opinion on the Data Protection Regulation. Even though the adopted text has fatal flaws, it represents a significant improvement compared with the Opinions adopted in other committees. Despite the avalanche of lobbying by a section of industry, business associations, “SME associations” funded by big business, […]

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November 7, 2007

Whois privacy problems not solved by ICANN

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) ICANN meeting that took place last week (29 October – 2 November 2007) in Los Angeles was expected to decide on the WHOIS database privacy problems. But unfortunately the decision taken was just to make further studies on the matter, despite the already seven years of discussions […]

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March 14, 2012

German Constitutional Court rules on access to personal data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Bundesverfassungsgerichtshof entscheidet über Zugriff auf personenbezogene Daten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.5_Deutscher_Bundesverfassungsgerichtshof_entscheidet_ueber_Zugriff_auf_personenbezogene_Daten] According to the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) on 24 February 2012, the law enforcement authorities must no longer request personal data unless justified by special conditions. The court found that certain provisions in the […]

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November 7, 2007

Government attempts of increased level of surveillance in Czech Republic

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Czech Interior Ministry introduced in October 2007 a new National Action Plan to Combat Terrorism that would increase the access of the police and intelligence authorities to personal data, under the pretext of the protection against terrorism. The Czech Ministry of Interior has introduced a similar […]

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November 21, 2005

Panel on privacy and security

The US digital rights organisation EPIC organised a panel with a preview of their annual privacy and human rights report, with 7 panellists from all continents, from China to Argentina, and from Israel to the Arab Human Rights Watch. Speaker Alberto Escudero-Pascual from Sweden/Spain focussed on the RFID badges given to every participant. Some participants […]

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December 3, 2008

French EDVIGE decree withdrawn

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) It seems the demonstrations that took place on 16 October against the EDVIGE decree have found an echo with the French authorities. The French Government has finally withdrawn the EDVIGE file after a very strong mobilisation of the citizens through the “No to EDVIGE” group that gathered […]

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March 28, 2012

EU-US joint commitments on privacy and protection of personal data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU – USA: Bekenntnis zu Privatsphäre und Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_EU_USA_Bekenntnis_zu_Privatsphaere_und_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328] At the 28 November 2011 EU-US Summit, President Obama and Presidents Van Rompuy and Barroso announced that the US and the EU are determined to finalise negotiations on a comprehensive EU-US data privacy and protection agreement. On 19 […]

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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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November 21, 2007

UK government loses personal data on 25 million citizens

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had had to apologise to Parliament after two computer discs containing the personal data of 25 million citizens were lost in the post. The disks contained the database on child benefit – a welfare payment made to the families of all children […]

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March 28, 2012

France: Biometric ID database found unconstitutional

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: Biometrie-Datenbank verfassungswidrig | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_Frankreich_Biometrie-Datenbank_verfassungswidrig?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328] The French Constitutional Council found the law proposing the introduction of a new biometric ID for French citizens as unconstitutional. The law was referred to the Constitutional Council on 7 March 2012, by more than 200 members of the French Parliament, a day […]

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