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Network fee: the new attack on the open Internet
A major attack on net neutrality is currently underway at the EU level using the slogan "Fair Share". Under this term, the telecommunications industry wants to massively increase its profits. EDRi and epicenter.works have published a joint paper, supported by a total of nine NGOs, which summarises all the myths of the telecom industry on this topic and counter them with facts and arguments. Read more about paper in this article.
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Is Telefónica offering real transparency and control?
Our data is extremely precious for technology companies. Internet and telecommunications services host and process huge amounts of personal data of their clients, based on often vague and confusing terms of service. The clients are rarely properly informed on what their data are being used for. On 27 February, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), […]
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CETA to get priority ahead of EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
CETA will undermine EU Charter of Fundamental Rights In February 2016, the European Commission and Canadian government published the final draft text of the EU – Canada trade agreement (CETA), prior to its approval or rejection by the Council, European Parliament and, possibly, national parliaments. The Court of Justice of the EU in October 2015 […]
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Surveillance scandal in discussion at the United Nations
The surveillance scandal has now reached the United Nation’s Human Rights Council, which opened its 24th session last week to a volley of questions about privacy and spying, many of them targeted at the United States and United Kingdom. (That’s perhaps not surprising, since U.N. representatives were among those listed as being monitored by the […]
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ENDitorial: The DNT ship is listing
The latest developments in the W3C working group on Do Not Track (euphemistically called the tracking preference working group) since the last time we wrote about this effort are not good, sadly. First in late July the departure of Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford who fought tirelessly to ensure that the W3C process […]
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Protect privacy against unchecked Internet surveillance!
EDRi joined a huge international coalition in calling upon European and UN institutions to assess whether national and international surveillance laws and activities are in line with their international human rights obligations. EDRi has endorsed a set of international principles against unchecked surveillance. The 13 Principles set out for the first time an evaluative framework […]
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Belgium ISP under cyberattack by British intelligence
Edward Snowden’s opened Pandora box keeps revealing extended eavesdropping of intelligence services. As some new leaked documents and slides show, Belgium ISP Belgacom, which includes as customers the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament, was targeted by GCHQ, the British intelligence service. On 16 September 2013, Belgacom expressed concern regarding an intrusion into its IT systems, having […]
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“Our Data, Our Lives”: The 2013 Public Voice Conference in Warsaw
Like most digital rights or information technologies conferences held since Edward Snowden’s revelations early June, the PRISM scandal and the NSA surveillance program were intensively discussed at the 2013 Public Voice Conference. The conference was held on 24 September 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, in conjunction with the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners on 25-26 September. As […]
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Snowden nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize
Eric Snowden, the whistleblower behind the revelations regarding the electronic surveillance made by NSA, GCHQ and other intelligent services, has been nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the Greens/EFA group and GUE/NGL group. The seven nominees for the 2013 Sakharov Prize were presented at a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Development committees […]
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FBI was controlling servers located in France
The FBI admitted on 12 September 2013 that, in late July, it had secretly taken control of some servers located in France in order to plant a malware within a police action. The agency has introduced the spyware on web pages hosted by Freedom Hosting, meant for Tor anonymization network. The hoster had been exposed since 2011 by activists […]
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US and UK intelligence campaign against encryption
Top-secret files obtained by the Guardian from former contractor Edward Snowden reveal that NSA and GCHQ, that is the US and British intelligence agencies, cracked the online encryption used by people to protect their personal information such as emails, banking and medical records. The guarantees offered by Internet companies to their consumers that their personal […]
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EDRi and FREE want 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 containing detailed analysis of the current European […]
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