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CleanIT looking for the question that it was seeking an answer to
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [CleanIT oder Wie war noch mal die Frage? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_CleanIT_oder_Wie_war_noch_mal_die_Frage?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Few people know that CleanIT was born from another failed project – the European Commission-led “dialogue on illegal online content”. In that “dialogue”, the European Commission (DG HOME) sought to persuade Internet hosting companies to delete websites containing […]
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Abandoning safe harbours: Hungarian online freedoms at risk
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ungarn: Die Freiheit des Internets steht auf dem Spiel | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Ungarn_Die_Freiheit_des_Internets_steht_auf_dem_Spiel?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Restrictions on freedom of expression and on access to information would be two repercussions of recently drafted changes to Hungary’s Criminal Code. The law would allow the government to “block” and potentially delete online material if hosting […]
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Portuguese blog taken down by Google for unknown reasons
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google schaltet aus unerklärlichen Gründen portugiesischen Blog ab | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Google_schaltet_aus_unerklaerlichen_Gruenden_portugiesischen_Blog_ab?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 14 November 2012, the blog of the group Precários Inflexíveis, whose purpose is to expose the working conditions of freelance workers without permanent contracts, was deleted by Google, during the day of the general strike in the […]
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ENDitorial: Silly censorship week: And the winner is…
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Woche der dümmsten Zensurmaßnahme | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_ENDitorial_Woche_der_duemmsten_Zensurmassnahme?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Over the past few years it has become more and more frequent that private companies get to decide what is “appropriate” or “inappropriate” online and what sort of Internet content we are allowed to access. Our rights to privacy and freedom […]
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CETA: EU ditches criminal sanctions…. almost
In documents seen by EDRi, the current Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union made a proposal at the beginning of October to delete the criminal sanctions section of the proposed EU/Canada Free Trade Agreement. Following initially positive responses from the Member States, it has now been provisionally agreed that the deletion of […]
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Lawless, unproven filtering and blocking of content as “best practice”
On Monday of next week (29 October, 2012), the European Union and the United States will have a “summit” (draft agenda) on “Exchange of Best Practices for Child Protection Online”. In the course of that meeting, the question of measures to prevent “re-uploading of the content” will be discussed. Both the European Commission and the […]
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Google threatens to exclude the French online press from its search
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google droht der französischen Online-Presse mit Ausschluss aus der Google-Suche | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Google_droht_der_franzoesischen_Online-Presse_mit_Ausschluss_aus_der_Google-Suche?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] GESTE, a French group of online editors, has been trying for a few years now to get part of Google’s revenues generated by its news service with indexed titles. “Google has developed on our content” said […]
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Protecting children in the digital environment and the rule of law
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schutz der Kinder im digitalen Umfeld und Rechtsstaatlichkeit | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Schutz_der_Kinder_im_digitalen_Umfeld_und_Rechtsstaatlichkeit?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] EDRi sent a letter to the Vice-President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes on 3 September 2012 regarding the current work in the field of protecting children in the digital environment, while respecting digital rights. While acknowledging the […]
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Macedonian draft law may introduce online censorship
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mazedonien: Neues Gesetz könnte zu Internetzensur führen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Mazedonien_Neues_Gesetz_koennte_zu_Internetzensur_fuehren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] A draft law on civil liability for insult and defamation related to communication over the Internet, which has passed the first reading in the Macedonian Parliament, may lead to strong censorship of the Internet. According to the draft law, […]
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Azeri opposition blogger arrested
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Aserbaidschan: Oppositioneller Blogger verhaftet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_%20Aserbaidschan_Oppositioneller_Blogger_verhaftet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] A new arrest made by the Azeri authorities raise concerns over the freedom of speech in Azerbaijan ahead of the next year’s general elections. The well-known blogger and opposition activist Zaur Gurbanli was arrested from his home on 29 September 2012 by […]
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ENDitorial: Clean IT is just a symptom of the pinata politics of privatised online enforcement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Clean IT ist bloß ein Symptom für die blindwütige Politik der privaten Rechtsdurchsetzung im Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_ENDitorial_CleanIT_ist_bloss_ein_Symptom_fuer_die_irrefuehrende_Politik_der_privaten_Rechtsdurchsetzung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120927] There has been a lot of attention to the “Clean IT” project since EDRi published a leaked draft document last week, on 21 September 2012. Since then, the project organisers have […]
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Clean IT – Leak shows plans for large-scale, undemocratic surveillance of all communications
This article is also available in German: [CleanIT – Pläne zur Überwachung des Internets im großen Stil] A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims, as well as the most fundamental legal rules that underpin European democracy and the […]
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