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Finnish Big Brother Award goes to intrusive loyalty card programme
On 2 September, EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) presented the 2016 Big Brother Awards. The Awards are given to individuals or organisations who have during the past year remarkably undermined citizens’ privacy and data protection. The goal is to draw attention to violations of privacy.
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Finland: New surveillance law threatens fundamental rights
Finnish EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) is gravely concerned over a draft law on Internet surveillance. The bill that the country’s current government is in the process of preparing will grant the military and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) the authority to conduct electronic mass surveillance for military and civilian intelligence purposes. On […]
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Finnish BB Awards to Commissioner Paatero, Police Board and Microsoft
On 31 January, EDRi-member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) presented the Finnish Big Brother Awards 2015. The Awards are based on a concept created by Privacy International in the UK. The tradition started in 1998 in London, and the awards are given in about a dozen countries annually. The goal is to draw attention to violations […]
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Remembering Ville Oksanen
Ville Oksanen, Vice President and a founding member of Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi), passed away on Sunday 23 November 2014 in Helsinki from a sudden illness. He was 37 years old. Ville was one of the founders of EDRi’s Finnish member organisation Effi, and a key contributor throughout the existence of the association. He acted […]
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Finland: Web service to request verifying of secret registry data
EDRi-member Effi ry has launched a web service for citizens to request the data protection authorities to verify that any records in various law enforcement and secret services registries are filed according to the relevant regulations. Previously, this kind of request required detailed knowledge of relevant registers, leaving the process practically unavailable for the majority […]
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Finland: Complaints about the copyright law drafting procedure
An update to the copyright law is being prepared in the Copyright Commission of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland. To affect the outcome of the preparations, and help correcting excessive interpretations of the current copyright laws, a citizens’ initiative “Common Sense For Copyright” was launched by the Open Ministry, a non-profit organisation […]
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Finnish copyright initiative: Unbalanced expert hearings
In its meeting on 9 September, the Education and Culture Committee of the Finnish parliament decided to continue the expert hearings for the citizens’ initiative on an update to the copyright legislation, “Common Sense For Copyright”. The decision was somewhat unexpected and a positive surprise, as the original agenda of the meeting stated that the […]
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Russia and Austria take action against use of Tor
Russian government is offering 3,9 million roubles (approximately 85 000 Euro) for a way to identify users transmitting data over the anonymous web browsing system Tor. The special technology and communications group of the interior ministry published the tender on the government procurement website in July, offering the reward for “research work, Tor cipher”. The […]
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Finnish Parliament argued over the copyright initiative
On 13 May, the Education and Culture Committee of the Finnish Parliament discussed the citizens’ initiative on an update to the copyright legislation. The main goal of the initiative “Common Sense in Copyright” is to correct the exaggerated interpretations of the current copyright laws, especially regarding network monitoring and compensation. This includes reforming the judicial […]
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