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October 17, 2007

List of Signatories-New Council of Europe Recommendation fails to uphold online freedom of expression

Act Now to Protect Freedom of Expression Online: – Sign up in support to this EDRI statement (NGOs and groups from non CoE member States also welcome) Read EDRI Statement: – Čeština : Výzva k akci: Doporučení Rady Evropy neochrání svobodu slova – Deutsch: Die neue Empfehlung des Europarates hält die freie Meinungsäußerung online nicht […]

October 10, 2007

EDRI Campaign on CoE Recommendation Failing to Uphold Freedom of Expression

On October 10, 2007, EDRI issued a statement to express its serious concerns over a new Council of Europe Recommendation on ‘promoting freedom of expression and information in the new information and communications environment’. As other related instruments are currently in preparation by the CoE, EDRI calls for NGOs and groups from all over the […]

January 19, 2006

EDRI-gram saved!

The campaign for support for EDRI-gram has been very successful. After an urgency call for pledges in the last 2005 issue of EDRI-gram, kind donators have pledged a little over 2.000 euro in support. On top of that, the Open Society Institute (Soros) kindly offered a donation of 1.500 euro. Combined with the 4.000 euro […]

January 5, 2006

End of 5 year struggle against data retention

After 5 years of fighting against plans for mandatary data retention, EDRI is deeply disappointed that a majority in the European Parliament has adopted a law decreeing very broad and long retention of telephony and internet traffic data, with access granted for all sorts of undefined crimes. Please visit the special [Campaign WIKI | http://wiki.dataretentionisnosolution.com] […]

November 27, 2005

Petition closed

The EDRI and XS4ALL petition against data retention is closed and has been offered to Jean Marie Cavada, the chairman of the Europarliament committee on civil liberties and Alexander Alvaro, the Europarl rapporteur on data retention. The petition has attracted over 58.000 signatures, of which over 21.000 from the Netherlands (where the campaign was launched), […]

September 8, 2005

Montreux Data Protection Commissioners Conference 2005

European Digital Rights is kindly inviting all interested people to attend a special public pre-event to the annual DPA conference in Montreux, Switzerland on 13 September 2005. EDRI, together with other NGO’s defending digital civil rights, is organising two panels, on biometrics and on data retention. Strategies for International Privacy Protection =Issues, Actors, and Future […]

July 27, 2005

Act now: sign the EDRI petition against data retention!

July 12, 2005

EDRI calls for restraint in extraordinary JHA Council

EDRI press release Tuesday 12 July, 13.00 PM European Digital Rights and Privacy International have sent an urgent letter today to the UK Presidency and the European Commissioners for Justice and Media to show restraint in tomorrow’s extraordinary JHA Council. EDRI expects the UK Presidency to table a new urgent procedure for the proposal on […]

June 7, 2005

EP rejects data retention proposal

On 7 June 2005 the European Parliament has adopted the report of LIBE-rapporteur Alexander Alvaro with a large majority. The report finds the proposal for mandatory data retention disproportionate. The report also questions the necessity, effectiveness and high costs for industry and telecommunication users. The JHA Council immediately explained to the MEPs that their advice […]

June 6, 2005

Open Letter on data retention to the European Parliament

‘=>PDF version of this letter in English. =>Voir la version Francaise sur le site d’IRIS. Également disponible en PDF. =>Dieser Brief auf Deutsch. Auch in PDF =>Esta Carta en Espanol. To the presidents of the political groups in the European Parliament Monday 6 June 2005 Dear Sir/Madam, We kindly request your attention on the matter […]

June 6, 2005

EDRI press release: call on EP to reject data retention

EDRI press release, Monday 6 June 2005 European Digital Rights (EDRI) has sent an open letter today to the European Parliament calling for a rejection of the European ministers of Justice and Home Affairs plan to keep all telephone and internet traffic data. Tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote in plenary on a report by […]

June 6, 2005

Open Letter available in 4 languages

The Open Letter to the European Parliament on data retention from EDRI, Privacy International and Statewatch is now available in 4 languages. The Open Letter in English Lettre Ouverte Version Française Offener Brief auf Deutsch Carta abierta en Espanol