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EDRi-gram – 15 years of digital rights news (and counting)
15 years ago this day, on 29 January 2003, we published our very first EDRi-gram. To celebrate this occasion, we are looking back at the articles in this first newsletter.
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Press release: EDRi and FREE urge European Parliament to bring an end to lawless surveillance
Civil society groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the Fundamental Rights European Experts Group (FREE) have demanded an end to lawless spying on individuals around the globe. At a meeting with the Chair of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee today, the two groups handed over a document (pdf) containing detailed analysis of the current […]
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Ireland: champion in requesting retained traffic data
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irland: Führend bei der Abfrage von Vorratsdaten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_Irland_Fuehrend_bei_der_Abfrage_von_Vorratsdaten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731] During the ECJ hearing on 9 July 2013 considering the legality of the European Data Retention Directive, it has come out that the Irish authorities are champions in requesting people’s data stored on phone or Internet, having made several […]
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Data retention: "We ask the Court to rule in favour of Freedom"
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdaten: “Das Gericht soll zugunsten der Freiheit entscheiden” | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_Vorratsdaten_Das_Gericht_soll_zugunsten_der_Freiheit_entscheiden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] On 9 July 2013, the European Court of Justice held a hearing before the Grand Chamber on the validity of the data retention directive (2006/24/EC). In line with the questions the involved parties received from the Court, the […]
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Austria: Outsourcing data retention obligations to the US
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [VDS in Österreich: Auslagern der Speicherverpflichtung an die USA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_VDS_in_Oesterreich_Auslagern_der_Speicherverpflichtung_an_die_USA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] During the ECJ lawsuit against the data retention (DR) directive it became clear that DR obligations may have been outsourced to contractors, maybe even to US-based companies, thereby giving US authorities potentially unrestricted access to all such […]
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European Court of Justice data retention cases to be heard on 9 July
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH-Anhörung zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.13_EuGH-Anhoerung_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130703] On 9 July 2013, the European Court of Justice will have a hearing before the Grand Chamber with two joined cases on the validity of the data retention directive (2006/24/EC). The two cases were brought by the Irish High Court (C-293/12 Digital Rights […]
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Danish phone company kept call records for more than 10 years
According to a series of articles in the Danish edition of Computerworld on 6 May 2013, a Danish mobile phone provider has kept telephone call records since the company started its operations in 2000. The company, Telmore, currently has about 700 000 subscribers and a 10% market share in Denmark. Since 2004, Telmore has been […]
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Slovenia: Information Commissioner challenges the data retention law
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowenien: Datenschutzbeauftragter stellt Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Frage | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.6_Slowenien_Datenschutzbeauftragter_stellt_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_in_Frage?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] The Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia challenged on 19 March 2013 the national implementation of data retention directive before the Constitutional Court. The Information Commissioner holds that the data retention provisions of the Act on Electronic Communications (ZEKom-1), […]
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Denmark: Government postpones the data retention law evaluation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Dänemark: Regierung verschiebt Evaluierung des VDS-Gesetzes | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.3_Daenemark_Regierung_verschiebt_Evaluierung_des_VDS-Gesetzes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130224] In the coming months, the Danish Parliament will conduct an evaluation and revision of the Danish data retention law which implements directive 2006/24/EC. The review process has been postponed twice on earlier occasions (2010 and 2012), and the Danish government […]
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Data Retention in Austria: Constitutional Court turns to the CJEU
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [VDS in Österreich: Verfassungsgericht wendet sich an Europäischen Gerichtshof | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_VDS_in_Oesterreich_Verfassungsgericht_wendet_sich_ein_Europaeischen_Gerichtshof?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] The Austrian Constitutional Court has reservations that the EU Directive on the Retention of Data could be incompatible with the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. For this reason, the 14 constitutional judges have addressed the Court of […]
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Increased Internet surveillance in Russia
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zunehmende Überwachung des Internets in Russland | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.21_Zunehmende_Ueberwachung_des_Internets_in_Russland?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Several normative acts that have entered into force or are being prepared in Russia bring forth an increased state surveillance over the Internet and a blacklist of blocked websites and internet addresses. In spite of strong criticism, the Russian Duma […]
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Slovak Constitutional Court receives data retention complaint
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowakei: Verfassungsklage gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingereicht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Slowakei_Verfassungsklage_gegen_die_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_eingereicht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The group of Slovak MPs filed the complaint against the data retention before the Slovak Constitutional Court on 9 October 2012. They requested the Constitutional Court to rule on the local implementation of the data retention and scrutinize its conformity […]
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