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Italian blog closed by Police
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 6 June 2008, the blog of the Italian journalist Antonino Monteleone was closed, without notification, by the Polizia Postale of Calabria under accusations of defamation, but the journalist claims that this action came after having posted uncomfortable information on political figures. The whole story started in […]
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ENDitorial: A new "NSA FRAnchise" set up in Sweden?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Lex Orwell, a law proposal for total surveillance, is urgently being pushed to a vote on 17 June 2008 by national security hawks in the peaceful Kingdom of Sweden. It will mandate the “NSA franchise”, the FRA, to turn its forest of parabola ears and world’s 5th […]
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More control over the Internet wanted in Russia
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Russian prosecutor’s office wants to extend the anti-extremism laws to the Internet, proposing an amendment to the rules that presently govern printed media on the basis of which newspapers considered by the court to have published extremist material can be shut down. In terms of the […]
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Radio Free Europe's websites in Belarus under attack
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Several Radio Free Europe websites were under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the past week. The attacks started on 26 April 2008, the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, primary targeted at the Belarus Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) service which was offering […]
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More Internet content blacklisted in Europe
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs have agreed to make publishing bomb-making instructions on the Internet a crime. The French authorities are discussing making the publication on the Internet of any alleged pro-anorexia information a crime. Justice and interior ministers from the EU member states […]
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Russian Government wants to control all WiFi devices
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 14 April 2008, Fontanka.ru online newspaper reported that Rossvyazokhrankultura, the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service, intends to ask for the mandatory registration of all WiFi devices, including personal home networks, notebook computers, mobile telephones and PDAs. Vladimir Karpov, the deputy director of the […]
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France considering new rules for web 2.0
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A French Parliamentary report suggests a change in the law (LCEN) that implements the European Directive on e-commerce in order to make clearer the distinction between editing and hosting activities in the new applications related to Web 2.0. The report of the Deputy Jean Dionis du Séjour […]
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France: Linking can be damaging to your pockets
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A recent decision by the Paris Tribunal has condemned 3 different French websites for linking to another website containing gossip information on the French actor Olivier Martinez. The actor has decided to sue 3 websites (Fuzz.fr, Vivre-en-normandie.com and CroixRousse.net) for linking to external websites that presented the […]
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ENDitorial: CoE – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The 9th meeting of the Council of Europe (CoE) group of specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS) was held in Strasbourg from 31 March to 2 April 2008. At the same time, on 1-2 April, another division of the CoE was holding in a […]
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Ireland: Music industry sues ISP, demands filtering
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal have sued Ireland’s largest ISP, Eircom, demanding that it install filters to prevent users from illegally sharing or downloading music. The action was admitted by Mr. Justice Peter Kelly to the Commercial Court, meaning that it will be heard on an expedited […]
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French Police extends the Internet blacklist
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) French Internal Affairs Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, announced on 14 February 2008 new measures to fight against cybercrime, including extending the websites blacklist and pushing for computer online investigations, without the permission of the country of the hosting company. The Minister visited the Cybercrime Brigade that is located […]
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ENDitorial: Finnish web censorship
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As of 1 January 2007 a law took effect in Finland allowing the Police to maintain a secret blacklist of child porn sites and distribute it to ISPs so that these may block access to those sites. Use of the lists is ostensibly voluntary to ISPs, but […]
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