Results for node/swift

January 27, 2010

OSCE asks Turkey to change the laws allowing Internet blocking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [OSZE fordert die Türkei auf Gesetze für Internetsperren zu ändern | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1676] OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Media Freedom representative Miklos Haraszti asked the Turkish Government on 18 January to change their Internet law in order to observe OSCE commitments and other international standards protecting […]

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January 12, 2011

French law Loppsi 2 adopted by the General Assembly

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französische Nationalversammlung: Loppsi 2-Gesetz angenommen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2498] The so-called Loppsi 2 law (loi d’orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure – law on guidelines and programming for the performance of internal security) was approved by the French General Assembly in its second reading on […]

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January 12, 2011

RapidShare wins another alleged copyright infringement case

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [RapidShare gewinnt einen weiteren Fall angeblicher Urheberrechtsverletzung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2497] RapidShare, the Swiss based file-hosting service, won the appeal against the computer game distributor Atari Europe. In March 2010, Düsseldorf Regional Court ruled that the company had not taken sufficient measures to hinder the distribution of the computer game […]

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January 27, 2010

Commissioner Kroes on net neutrality

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommissarin Kroes über Netzneutralität | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1678] On 14 January 2010, Neelie Kroes, the former Competition commissioner, had her interview in front of the Internal Market and Industries committees of the European Parliament (EP) as designated for the position of digital agenda commissioner. Answering to the various questions of […]

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January 12, 2011

ENDitorial: EDRi's data retention workshop at CCC

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: EDRi-Workshop zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung auf dem CCC | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2496] Three EDRi members,Netzwerk Neue Medien (Ralf Bendrath), Bits of Freedom (Axel Arnbak) and Panoptykon Foundation (Katarzyna Szymielewicz), together with one observer Patrick Breyer from AK Vorrat, gave a talk on data retention and hosted a workshop for activists during […]

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November 30, 2011

New Guidelines to RFID Privacy Impact Assessments

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neuer Leitfaden zur RFID-Folgenabschätzung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Neuer_Leitfaden_zur_RFID_Folgenabschaetzung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] On 25 November 2011 the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the Institute for Management Information Systems of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) held an expert symposium on RFID Privacy Impact Assessments in Berlin and presented their […]

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November 21, 2012

ENDitorial: Silly censorship week: And the winner is…

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Woche der dümmsten Zensurmaßnahme | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_ENDitorial_Woche_der_duemmsten_Zensurmassnahme?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Over the past few years it has become more and more frequent that private companies get to decide what is “appropriate” or “inappropriate” online and what sort of Internet content we are allowed to access. Our rights to privacy and freedom […]

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January 27, 2010

Italy wants a licence for uploading videos on the Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italien wünscht eine Lizenz für das Hochladen von Videos ins Internet | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1679] The Italian Government intends to introduce a new decree that would require people who upload videos onto the Internet to get authorization from the Communications Ministry just like television broadcasters. Article 4 of the respective […]

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January 27, 2010

LOPPSI 2 French law – to block or not to block websites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französisches LOPPSI 2 Gesetz – Internet sperren oder nicht sperren | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1680] The members of the Law Commission of the French National Assembly have issued their first amendments to LOPPSI 2 draft law that is to be discussed in the Assembly starting with 9 February 2010. If adopted […]

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January 27, 2010

EP Culture Committee – Draft Internet Governance Opinion published

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kulturausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments – Gutachtenentwurf zu Internet Governance veröffentlicht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1681] The European Parliament (EP) has started its deliberations on a non-binding report on “Internet governance, the next steps”, following the Commission’s Communication on this topic in 2009. The draft Opinion of the European Parliament’s Culture Committee […]

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January 26, 2011

EDRi responds to data protection consultation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi Stellungnahme zum Konsultationsverfahren zur Datenschutz-Richtlinie | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2549] Building on the analysis produced for the European Commission’s initial data protection consultation in 2009, European Digital Rights has submitted its second round of comments on the review of the 1995 Data Protection Directive. One of EDRi’s primary concerns with […]

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January 27, 2010

Award Ceremony of the European Civil Society Data Protection Award

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Preisverleihung des European Civil Society Data Protection Award | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1682] WHERE: The award ceremony will take place on 28 January 2010 at the Kaaitheater (20 square Sainctelette 1000 Bruxelles) WHEN: during a Pecha Kucha (a series of 13 presentations that each last 6 minutes). The Pecha Kucha event […]

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