EDRi-gram 12.2
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ECJ: Circumventing protection systems may be lawful in certain cases
In a judgement issued on 23 January 2014, the EU Court of Justice ruled that circumventing a protection system of a games console may be lawful under certain circumstances. The decision was taken in a case brought to the Milan District court by Nintendo against the Italian retailer PC Box Srl. Nintendo sued PC Box […]
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Passwords lost for 16 million email accounts
The German Federal Office for Online Security (BSI) revealed on 21 January 2014 that, according to information from law enforcement agencies and research institutions, the passwords and usernames for emails of approx 16 million users (in majority Germans) had been compromised. The theft was revealed in an analysis of illegal botnets. BSI said the computer […]
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UK government must justify its large-scale surveillance activities
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asks the UK government to justify how GCHQ’s practices comply with the right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention. The ECtHR’s action follows a case brought by Big Brother Watch, the EDRi member Open Rights Group, English PEN and the German Internet activist Constanze Kurz […]
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Spain court orders an ISP to disconnect a user for P2P file sharing
For the first time in Spain, a court has ruled that an ISP must disconnect one of its users for having shared P2P music files. In a case brought to the court by Promusicae, an association of Spanish music producers, against the Spanish ISP R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, the Barcelona Court of Appeals has […]
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Data protection package delayed after the Euro elections
The EU’s much discussed data protection package will not be adopted before the elections for the European Parliament which are due in May 2014. “They have elaborated a road map and now they need to deliver on it basically but I think the political agreement to get this done before the end of the year […]
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Dutch Court finds Pirate Bay blocking disproportionate
In a new instalment of the Dutch saga of copyrightholders representative BREIN demanding courts to order ISPs to block The Pirate Bay this mostly worrisome string of court decisions takes a turn for the better: the The Hague Court of Appeals has judged that previous blocking orders that had been granted have been mostly ineffective […]
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The Ukrainian Parliament decides to reject the anti-protest bill
The Ukraine Government’s attempts to censor and restrict freedom of expression and freedom of assembly by a controversial anti-protest legislation has fortunately been stopped by the Ukrainian Parliament on 28 January 2014. In the light of the latest events in Ukraine, in a desperate attempt to curve the protests that have become larger and stronger […]
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EP Committees: Broadly positive votes on net neutrality
In the last two weeks, the three European Parliament Committees have adopted their advisory “opinions” on the European Commission’s proposals on net neutrality – which are part of a wide-ranging Regulation that also covers topics as varied as roaming and spectrum management. These opinions are meant to advise the Committee responsible – the Industry Committee […]
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ENDitorial: European Commission boxing clever on TTIP
Up until last week, the “Investor-State Dispute Settlement System” (ISDS) being proposed in the so-called “TTIP” negotiations between the EU and US was a strategic disaster on the part of the negotiating partners, the European Union, in particular. Historically, ISDS was developed as a way of ensuring that, institutionally and legally, weak countries could offer […]
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