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Leaked ACTA text confirms suspicions
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Durchgesickerter ACTA-Text bestätigt Verdacht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1720] The text of the digital chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was published on 21 February 2010, following news articles from IDG News Service issued a few days before. The text of the draft digital chapter confirms that there are several problems […]
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Germany DPAs to discuss the EU-US Safe Harbour Agreement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Datenschutzbehörden debattieren über das Safe Harbour-Abkommen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1730] The German data protection authorities want to have a meeting on the EU-US data protection Safe Harbour agreement and to agree on a resolution on this matter. Heise reports that some of the German Lander Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) […]
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ACTA: the hot copyright treaty surrounded by secrecy
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA: Umstrittenes Urheberrechts-Abkommen im Nebel | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1699] The secrecy on the closed international agreement on Intellectual Property issues – ACTA – is making everyone suspicious on the content of the new treaty, which could contain dangerous legislation for digital civil rights. After the end of talks on ACTA […]
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EP Culture Committee – Draft Internet Governance Opinion published
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kulturausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments – Gutachtenentwurf zu Internet Governance veröffentlicht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1681] The European Parliament (EP) has started its deliberations on a non-binding report on “Internet governance, the next steps”, following the Commission’s Communication on this topic in 2009. The draft Opinion of the European Parliament’s Culture Committee […]
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ENDitorial: What the conquistadores can teach us about ACTA
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Was uns Konquistadoren über ACTA lehren| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1634] When the conquistadores arrived in the Americas, historians tell us that the viruses that they carried caused devastation among the indigenous populations. For the European invaders, who had been subject to the viruses for longer, the illnesses, while still sometimes […]
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ENDitorial: IGF 2009: the Forum is the Message (and the Massage as well)
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitrorial: IGF 2009 – das Forum ist die Message (und auch die Massage)| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1615] Internet Governance Forum or Internet Governance Fair? One might still wonder what the IGF acronym stands for, after the closing of its fourth annual meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on 18 November 2009. […]
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Bank Data Transfer to US about to be stopped
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bankdatentransfer an die USA kurz vor dem Abbruch | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1588] The Swedish EU presidency and the United States government have finalized a draft agreement on bank data transfer for anti-terrorism purposes in mid-November. While the negotiations over the so-called “SWIFT agreement” were held exclusively behind closed doors, the […]
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ENDitorial: Mobilizing to Stop ACTA
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Mobilisierung um ACTA zu stoppen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1595] The negotiating partners of ACTA have announced that the next round of negotiations on ACTA will take place in Mexico in January and have promised to conclude the agreement in 2010. As the last edition of the EDRi-gram exposed, the […]
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Declaration on Global Privacy Standards
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deklaration über globale Datenschutzstandards | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1567] The public voice coalition, where EDRi is also a member, gathered almost two hundred privacy experts, advocates, and governments officials from around the world for a civil society event in Madrid with the title “Global privacy standards for a Global world”. Held […]
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ENDitorial: ACTA revealed, European ISPs might have a big problem
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: ACTA enthüllt, europäische Internet-Service-Provider dürften ein großes Problem haben | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1575] Negotiations on the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement have started in Seoul, South Korea. This week’s closed negotiations will focus on “enforcement in the digital environment.” Negotiators will be discussing the Internet provisions drafted by the […]
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US gives up its unilateral supervision powers over ICANN
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [USA geben ihre unilaterale Aufsichtsbefugnisse über ICANN auf | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1542] In a movement welcomed by the European Commission, the US have announced they would become more open in Internet governance and give up their dominant position in the supervision of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers […]
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Civil society coalition discuss global privacy standards
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Koalition der Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert globale Standards im Datenschutz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1530] The Public Voice, the largest worldwide civil society coalition where EDRi is a an active member, will discuss “Global Privacy Standards in a Global World” during its conference on 3 November 2009 in Madrid, Spain, to be held […]
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