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May 29, 2018 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

A Digestible Guide to Individual’s Rights under GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25th and Privacy Policy updates have been flooding inboxes. GDPR enhances everyone’s rights, regardless of nationality, gender, economic status and so on. Unfortunately, the majority of individuals know very little about these rights and GDPR at large.

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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Parliament’s work on copyright enforcement – not worth copying

The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) adopted an Opinion on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement, in response to the European Commission’s Communication entitled “Towards a renewed consensus on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: an EU Action Plan”. It starts by offering support for “the” “follow the money” approach. The only problem […]

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May 3, 2017 · Blogs

EU data protection watchdogs support stronger ePrivacy legislation

On 10 January 2017, the European Commission (EC) published its long-awaited proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation (ePR) to replace the 2002 e-Privacy Directive (ePD). In April 2017, two Opinions were issued to provide comments and recommendations on how to better safeguard the right to privacy, confidentiality of communications, and the protection of personal data in the […]

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September 8, 2010

ENDitorial: ACTA endgame – The devil is in the detail

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ ENDitorial: Endspiel um ACTA – Der Teufel steckt im Detail | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2170] The last week has seen a flurry of activity surrounding ACTA, with the leak of the latest negotiating text, as well as the adoption of a Written Declaration by the European Parliament. Some parts of […]

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March 15, 2006

EU public consultation on RFID

During a high-level panel discussion at CeBIT 2006 Mrs. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, announced a new public debate on RFID, organised by the European Commission. Its purpose is to make an inventory of concerns that might necessitate legislative changes. Mrs. Reding said that “These networks and devices will link everyday […]

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June 13, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data

Wiretapping & data access by foreign courts? Why not!

After the European Commission published two new legislative proposals for law enforcement authorities to be able to reach across EU borders to have access to data directly from service providers, the EU Member States started working on this new “e-evidence” package. The proposal has so far become the object of wide-spread criticism from service providers, […]

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March 12, 2008

French website Note2Be.com closed by court order

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the legal action initiated on 14 February by several individual teachers and SNES-FS union, a French court ordered on 3 March 2008 to Note2be.com to eliminate from their site the names of the teachers graded by students. The site, launched on 30 January 2008, that allowed […]

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July 8, 2013 · Blogs

British Conservative's report demands long list of EU actions on gambling, including web blocking

The European Parliament has a committee dedicated to enhancing the European single market and consumer protection. This is a good thing. Imagine how such a committee would react to an industry that is hampered by protectionism, national monopolies and the blocking of foreign services that offer better value for money. Well, you don’t have to […]

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September 22, 2010

ENDitorial: Internet blocking in ten weeks and counting

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Internet-Sperren in zehn Wochen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2205] Within the next ten weeks, the European Parliament will finish its crucial first reading of the Directive which, if the European Commission has its way, will impose an EU-wide blocking infrastructure – undermining child protection, fundamental rights and the EU’s voice […]

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March 26, 2014 · Blogs

Macedonia bans gambling, raises concern over Internet censorship

Macedonia’s government has announced plans to block access to foreign gambling sites in an effort to prevent an outflow of capital. The ban will occur at some point in March and follows a change in the Law of Games and Chance adopted on the 28 December 2013. Far from banning gambling outright – the Macedonian […]

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June 14, 2017 · Blogs

Access to e-evidence: Inevitable sacrifice of our right to privacy?

What do you do when human rights “get in the way” of tackling crime and terrorism? You smash those pillars of your democratic values – the same ones you are supposedly protecting. Give up your right to privacy, it is a fair price to pay for the guarantee of your security! This is the mantra […]

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July 5, 2018 · Press releases | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Press Release: EU Parliamentarians support an open, democratic debate on Copyright Directive

EU Parliamentarians decided today, 5 July 2018, that the initial text proposed as the Copyright Directive Reform needs to be re-opened for edits. This will allow the 751 MEPs to propose amendments in September and call for the deletion of the notorious Article 13.

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