Results for node/swift

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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July 14, 2010

The Digital Economy Act brought to court by two UK ISPs

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zwei britische ISPs bringen Digital Economy Act vor Gericht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2062] The two big UK ISPs, BT and TalkTalk, have asked the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the most controversial aspects of the Digital Economy Act, in order to establish whether it is in […]

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August 26, 2009

Italian DNA database: The devil is in the details

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italienische DNA-Datenbank: der Teufel steckt im Detail | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1496] On 30 June 2009, the Italian Parliament finally passed Law No. 85 that ratifies the Prum Convention and forms the legal ground for the creation of an Italian National DNA Database (NDNAD). Although this law might have benefited from […]

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July 14, 2010

Belgium ISPs are not obliged to block The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgische ISPs müssen The Pirate Bay nicht sperren | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2063] Two Belgian ISPs have won their court battle against an anti-piracy group which had demanded that they block the access to The Pirate Bay. On 9 July 2010, the Antwerp Commercial Court rejected the blocking demands made by […]

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August 26, 2009

People convicted in UK for refusing to surrender cryptographic keys

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Verurteilungen in Großbritannien für die Weigerung, Entschlüsselungen herauszugeben | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1497] According to the Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner Sir Christopher Rose to the UK Prime Minister and Scottish Ministers, people were sentenced between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009 for not having given their passwords […]

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July 14, 2010

Blocking of innocent websites by O2 Ireland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [O2 Ireland sperrt harmlose Webseiten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2064] The Irish mobile operator O2 has acknowledged accidentally blocking the image hosting website IMGUR through its system for blocking alleged child abuse material. There appears to have been no indication that there was, in fact, any illegal material hosted on that […]

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August 26, 2009

Google's Street View contested in France and Switzerland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Googles Street View in Frankreich und der Schweiz angefochten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1498] After being criticised and contested in several countries in Europe, such as UK, Germany and Greece and even outside Europe like in Japan, it is the turn of France and Switzerland to complain against Google’s service Street […]

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July 14, 2010

Facebook faces serious fines in Germany

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Auf Facebook warten in Deutschland hohe Geldstrafen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2065] The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information John Caspar has launched legal proceedings against the operator of the social network Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don’t use the respective social […]

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August 26, 2009

UK: p2p three strikes clamp down despite civil liberties concerns

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB: das p2p drei Treffer-Schema greift trotz Bedenken über Bürgerrechte durch | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1499] A new proposal shows that the UK Government has given in to the pressure of right holders who have complained that the measures proposed by the ‘Digital Britain’ report were not powerful enough “to have […]

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July 14, 2010

Yahoo is not bound to give personal data to Belgian authorities

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Yahoo muss belgischen Behörden keine personenbezogenen Daten übergeben | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2066] The Belgian Court of Appeal of Gand ruled on 30 June 2010 that Yahoo was not obliged to hand over personal data of its users to the Belgian authorities, in a case where the first instance had issued […]

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August 26, 2009

Belgium: Minister of Justice wants 2 years of data retention

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Justizminister will zweijährige Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1500] Belgium is starting again to discuss the implementation of the data retention directive, suggesting a 2-year retention period for electronic communication traffic data, according with the Flemish newspaper De Tijd. The initial discussion in 2008 did not passed the criticism received […]

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July 14, 2010

ENDitorial: French biometric passport: case still pending after 2 years

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Beschwerde gegen französische Biometrie-Pässe nach 2 Jahren immer noch anhängig | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2067] It took more than two years after the complaint against the French biometric passport was filed to have the conclusions of the “public rapporteur” publicly presented at the Conseil d’Etat (French highest administrative Court), on […]

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