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ENDitorial: EP and EDPS hit back against lawless “child protection” measures
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: „Kinderschutz“-Maßnahmen ohne gesetzliche Grundlage – EP und EDSB schlagen zurück | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] In the EDRi-gram 10.12, we reported on projects of the European Commission to coerce industry into the introduction of “voluntary” upload filters. Following the Scarlet/Sabam case in the European Court of Justice, such filtering would […]
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UK government wants an automatic filtering of adult sites
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Regierung plant automatisierte Netzfilter für Erwachsenenangebote | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.13_Britische_Regierung_plant_automatisierte_Netzfilter_fuer_Erwachsenenangebote?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120704] The UK officials intend to force Internet users to filter out pornography websites starting with the setting out of their accounts. “I want to fully explore every option that might help make children safer – including whether internet filters […]
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Marielle Gallo MEP condemns the “soft-terrorism” of the anti-ACTA campaign
This interview was translated and republished with the kind permission of PCinpact. We have added our comments on some of the misinformation in Ms Gallo’s statements. See notes 1-6 at the end of the article. Marielle Gallo, who is a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels, proposed a draft […]
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Commission and industry attacks on Parliament hit a new low
For the past few months, the European Commission and industry lobbyists have tried to pressure the European Parliament into abdicating responsibility for ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Instead, the Parliament has given the proposal an inordinate amount of attention, with five different committees devoting huge amounts of time and resources to the proposal. Five different […]
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Google Transparency report: increasing trend of government censorship
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google Transparenzbericht: Staatliche Zensur nimmt zu | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Google_Transparenzbericht_Staatliche_Zensur_nimmt_zu?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] According to Google’s latest bi-annual transparency report covering the July-December 2011 period, the number of governmental requests for users’ private data and content taking down has continued to grow. The report shows the situation for each country separately and refers […]
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UK websites might have to identify “trolls”
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Websitenbetreiber sollen „Trolle“ identifizieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Britische_Websitenbetreiber_sollen_Trolle_identifizieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] According to the new UK government proposals, website operators might soon have to identify users who have posted defamatory messages online, so that the victims of the respective messages may take legal action against the “trolls”. Presently in UK, a website […]
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Open letter to Christofer Fjellner MEP
Swedish text below Dear Mr Fjellner, I am writing to you with regard to your recent blog post on ACTA. First of all thank you for providing a clarification after you tabled an amendment for the International Trade Committee vote next week calling for ACTA to be ratified. We are heartened to read that you […]
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French Court considers YouTube non liable for the content
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: YouTube haftet nicht für Inhalte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Frankreich_YouTube_haftet_nicht_fuer_Inhalte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] On 29 May 2012, in a case brought to court by TF1 against Google for its YouTube service, the High Court of Paris ruled that YouTube was just a hosting service and therefore not bound to police the content posted […]
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The Hague district court orders Pirate Party to censor its website
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Den Haag: Piratenpartei muss ihre Website zensurieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_Den_Haag_Piratenpartei_muss_ihre_Website_zensurieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] On 10 May 2012, the district court of The Hague gave its verdict in the case of BREIN against the Dutch Pirate Party. BREIN had earlier obtained an ex parte injunction against the Dutch Pirates but, unlike earlier ex […]
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ENDitorial: Online child protection should not come hand-in-hand with censorship
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Schutz von Kindern im Internet sollte nicht mit Zensur einhergehen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_ENDitorial_Schutz_von_Kindern_im_Internet_sollte_nicht_mit_Zensur_einhergehen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] Earlier this month, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government would be considering default filtering of ‘adult content’ on the internet. The announcement came shortly after the release of a report by […]
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France: Google sent again to court for its search suggestion service
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: Google neuerlich wegen Suggest-Funktion vor Gericht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.9_Frankreich_Google_neuerlich_wegen_Suggest-Funktion_vor_Gericht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120509] Four French associations have decided to take Google to court for its automatic suggestion of the word “Jew” when searching for the names of several French personalities. Union des étudiants juifs de France (UEJF – union of Jew students […]
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UK High Court orders ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britischer High Court entscheidet, ISPs müssen The Pirate Bay sperren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.9_Britischer_High_Court_entscheidet_ISPs_muessen_The_Pirate_Bay_sperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120509] The UK High Court has recently decided that The Pirate Bay (TPB) must be blocked by 5 UK internet service providers. No technical details were given in the ruling as, according to Mr Justice Arnold, the […]
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