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EC "Roadmap" for review of the IPR Enforcement Directive
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Roadmap der Kommission für die Überprüfung der Urheberrechtsrichtlinie | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Roadmap_der_Kommission_fuer_die_Ueberpruefung_der_Urheberrechtsrichtlinie?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] The European Commission recently published a “roadmap” to the review of the Directive on Intellectual Property Enforcement (2004/48/EC). As it is becoming traditional, the Commission neatly mixes up all kinds of infringements, from dangerous fake medicines to illegal […]
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ENDitorial: EU DP Regulation Proposal: The French CNIL defends its turf
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: EU-Entwurf zur Datenschutzverordnung – Französische Datenschutzbehörde CNIL verteidigt ihr Revier | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_ENDitorial_EU-Entwurf_zur_Datenschutzverordnung_Franzoesische_Datenschutzbehoerde_CNIL_verteidigt_ihr_Revier?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] The French CNIL was one of the first national Data Protection Authority (DPA) to react to the publication, by the European Commission, of its Data Protection Framework Proposal on 25 January 2012. In a very […]
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European Parliament: raising awareness on "self"-regulation
What better way to raise awareness on private policing on the Internet than to organise a workshop in the European Parliament and let the stakeholders answer the question: “Self-regulation: Should online companies police the internet?” On 7 December 2011 MEP Marietje Schaake organized, with support from EDRi, an event on this issue. Among the speakers […]
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Council of Europe and European Commission initiatives on Internet freedom
On 8 December, the Council of Europe launched a very important Declaration on “the protection of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association with regard to privately operated Internet platforms and online service providers.” The text picks up many of the themes and priorities of EDRi’s study, published in January of this year, […]
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EU-US summit joint statement ignores European civil rights
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-US Gipfel: Gemeinsame Erklärung missachtet Europäische Bürgerrechte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_EU-US-Gipfel_Gemeinsame_Erklaerung_missachtet_Europaeische_Buergerrechte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] A common statement issued at the EU-US summit that took place on 28 November 2011 at the White House in Washington included several aspects with direct impact on digital civil rights that shows the US have succeeded again in […]
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Two years into the Stockholm Programme: on the way to e-Fortress Europe?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zwei Jahre Stockholm Programm: Europa auf dem Weg zu einer elektronischen Festung? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Zwei_Jahre_Stockholmer_Programm_Europa_auf_dem_Weg_zu_einer_elektronischen_Festung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] It has been two years now since the Stockholm Programme – a 5-year plan for Justice and Home Affairs – was adopted. On 24 November 2011, an experts’ and activists’ round table, organised in […]
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European Digital Rights discusses cybercrime in LIBE Committee
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Computerkriminalität: EDRi referiert im Innenausschuss des EP | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_Computerkriminalitaet_EDRi_referiert_im_Innenausschuss_des_EP?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] On 4 October 2011, European Digital Rights, as well as EDRi Member Chaos Computer Club (Germany), made presentations to the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament on the new draft Directive on Attacks Against Computer Systems. The […]
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Freedom not Fear: High time for European (digital) civil rights
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Freiheit statt Angst: Hochsaison für (digitale) Bürgerrechte in Europa | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.18_Freiheit_statt_Angst_Hochsaison_fuer_digitale_Buergerrechte_in_Europa?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111004] European policy making has long been blind to the digital environment, ignoring the potentials of the Internet and the positive impact of the free flow of information in society. Over the last 10 years, an increasing number […]
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EP study on "Consumer Behaviour in a Digital Environment"
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP-Studie zum “Verbraucherverhalten im digitalen Umfeld” | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.17_EP_Studie_zum_Verbraucherverhalten_im_digitalen_Umfeld?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110907] The European Parliament (EP) has published a study on “Consumer Behaviour in a Digital environment” that it commissioned from London School of Economics (LSE). The study involved a limited stakeholder consultation, which included an extensive exchange of views with EDRi […]
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ENDitorial: Phone hacking and self regulation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Abhörskandale und Selbstregulierung | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.15_ENDitorial_Abhoerskandale_und_Selbstregulierung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110801] The self-regulatory authority for the British press, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), has itself become one of the victims of the “phone hacking” scandal, as self-regulation failed to not alone prevent but even identify problems now believed to be endemic among UK […]
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Privatised enforcement series E: Online trading platforms sell out
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Serie: Privatisierung der Online-Strafverfolgung – Teil E | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_Serie_Privatisierung_der_Online-Strafverfolgung%E2%80%93Teil_E] In a bizarrely designed document, looking like a mix between a wedding invitation and an accident in a blue ink factory, leading online retailers Amazon, eBay and Priceminister have sold out the interests of their consumers in a “memorandum […]
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Privatised enforcement series D: Anatomy of a self-regulation proposal
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Serie: Privatisierung der Online-Strafverfolgung – Teil D | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Privatisierung_der_Online_Strafverfolgung_Teil_D] How does it happen that an industry or a sector of industry signs up “voluntarily” to arbitrarily punish their consumers and to restrict freedom of speech? One of the most interesting and telling examples is the ongoing “public/private dialogue […]
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