February 13, 2013 · Blogs

Human rights orgs ask OECD to investigate surveillance companies

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Überwachungsfirmen: Menschenrechtsorganisationen fordern OECD-Untersuchung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.3_Ueberwachungsfirmen_Menschenrechtsorganisationen_fordern_OECD-Untersuchung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130224] In the beginning of February 2013 several human rights organisations, including Privacy International, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Bahrain Watch and Reporters without Borders, filed formal complaints against surveillance software firms Gamma International […]

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September 11, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Mass hacking and fundamental rights: a missed opportunity for the Court of Justice of the Euorpean Union?

On 30 April 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its decision in the ‘EncroChat’ case. The case emerged from recent European police cooperation operations against organised crime, involving the mass interception of encrypted communications by means of spyware (‘hacking’).

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December 5, 2014 · Campaigns

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October 20, 2005

Data retention: Council barks but cannot bite

Charles Clarke from the UK Home Office uttered some incredibly harsh threats to the European Parliament committee on civil liberties (LIBE) on 13 October, the day after the Council meeting, but his barking could not conceal the fact the ministers of Justice and Home Affairs did not have any teeth to bite with. Several national […]

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February 27, 2013 · Blogs

EDRi's guide on how to answer the IPRED consultation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi Leitfaden zur Konsultation zum Urheberrecht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.4_EDRi_Leitfaden_zur_Konsultation_zum_Urheberrecht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130304] This is just a quick warning that you have until 30 March 2013 if you want to answer to the public consultation on the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED). The directive has been in force since 2004 and requires […]

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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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February 29, 2012

Private copy levies draft law in Portugal

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Portugal: Abgaben auf Privatkopien geplant | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Portugal_Abgaben_auf_Privatkopien_geplant?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] A draft law proposed by the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) in December 2011 is intended to set broad, exponentially increasing levies on digital storage devices with the support of collective rights entities like the portugese authors guild (SPA) and a collective […]

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December 19, 2016 · Blogs

EDRi Awards 2016

For the first time and with great solemnity, EDRi presents the first ever third edition of its annual awards.

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May 20, 2009

EP limits data breach notification

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament schränkt Meldungen von Datenverstößen ein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1399] The modification of the Privacy and Electronic Communication directive voted by the European Parliament (EP) on 6 May 2009, as part of second reading of the telecom package, limits the data breach notification only to the electronic communications service […]

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December 22, 2015 · Blogs

EDRi Awards 2015

For the second time and with great solemnity, EDRi presents the first ever second edition of its annual awards. 1. The “Humpty Dumpty Award” for the most silly “statistics” The award this year goes to French Home Affairs Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. He argued that 90% of radicalisation happens online – the source was a non-representative, […]

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March 14, 2012

Spanish DPA asks ECJ on right to be forgotten

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Recht auf Vergessen: Spanische Datenschutzbehörde wendet sich an EuGH | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.5_Recht_auf_Vergessen_Spanische_Datenschutzbehoerde_wendet_sich_an_EuGH] While Spain’s National Court, Audiencia Nacional de Espana (AN) has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to clarify jurisdiction issues in cases involving individual privacy complaints against Google and search engines in general, Spain’s Data Protection […]

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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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