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EDRi celebrates its 10th anniversary
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi feiert seinen 10. Geburtstag | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.4_EDRi_feiert_seinen_10_Geburtstag?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130227] From 2 to 4 March 2013, European Digital Rights (EDRi) will hold its Annual General Assembly and celebrate its 10th anniversary. In early 2003, EDRi was registered as a non-profit organisation in Brussels in order to create an European organisation that […]
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Italian police blocks tumblr domain
The Italian police imposed on 13 February 2013 the blocking of domain name 25.media.tumblr.com, which was actually one of the Amazon cloud computing server that contains all the images loaded on the tumblr website. The domain blocking was based on an alleged child pornography content on the site. This domain name blocking was lifted one […]
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Industry Committee scrapes together a majority for a disastrous data protection opinion
The Industry Committee (ITRE) of the European Parliament today adopted a disastrously badly drafted Opinion on data protection. The effect of the adopted text would be to effectively rip up decades of privacy legislation in Europe, undermining trust and confidence – to the detriment of both citizens and business. “There are positives to be drawn […]
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Fight back on data protection: Launch of European privacy campaign
Thirty six civil rights and data protection organsations have just launched the European campaign portal www.privacycampaign.eu in support of better protection for European citizens’ rights to privacy and data protection. “This is our one opportunity to develop a strong legal framework, building trust and removing unnecessary red tape for business. We need a framework that […]
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Consumer protection MEPs recommend bureaucracy and destruction of privacy rights
Following the recent vote, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament has just published a final version of its “Opinion” (pdf) on the European Commission’s proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation. The text was adopted with a small majority, underlining how controversial the dossier is. While the Committee proposes […]
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Slovenia has a net neutrality law
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowenien schreibt Netzneutralität per Gesetz vor | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.2_Slowenien_schreibt_Netzneutralitaet_per_Gesetz_vor?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130207] On 20 December 2012, the Slovenian Parliament approved a legislative framework (the Economic Communications Bill) that includes net neutrality, confirming the open and neutral character of the Internet and forbidding the discrimination of Internet traffic on the basis of the […]
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RIP CleanIT
This is hopefully going to be our last report on the EU-funded Clean IT project. Since our last article, which was the trigger for quite some negative feedback in the international press, much has changed in the drafting documents of the project. On Wednesday 30 January, the participants meet for a final conference in Brussels […]
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European Parliament Data protection draft – compromise or compromised?
The draft Report of the European Parliament on the European Commission’s proposed Data Protection Regulation was published today. The Parliamentarian responsible, German Green MEP Jan Albrecht, has sought to improve on the Commission’s initial proposal and also to address many of the concerns raised by his colleagues in the discussions that have taken place so […]
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The European Parliament supports net neutrality
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament setzt sich Netzneutralität ein | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Europaeisches_Parlament_setzt_sich_fuer_Netzneutralitaet_ein?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] On 11 December 2012, The European Parliament (EP) issued, in a large majority, two non-legislative resolutions asking that net neutrality should be enshrined in the European Union law. In one of the resolutions, “Completing the Digital Single Market”, the EP […]
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Digitale Gesellschaft promotes net neutrality with Vodafail actions
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vodafail: Digitale Gesellschaft setzt sich für Netzneutralität ein | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Vodafail_Digitale_Gesellschaft_setzt_sich_fuer_Netzneutralitaet_ein?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] There are only a few telecom operators in Germany which offer mobile Internet. The two largest, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, harm net neutrality in numerous of their tariffs – deeply hidden in their contract terms. The federal government […]
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EDRi's websites on the data protection reform package
EDRi has launched two platforms for an easy navigation through the different articles and topics of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive proposed by the European Commission on 25 January 2012. On these two platforms, you can browse through the Recitals, Articles and our Position Papers using […]
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The European Parliament demands a net neutrality law
Today, a large majority of European parliamentarians demanded in two non-legislative resolutions that net neutrality should be enshrined in European Union law. In the context of a non-legislative resolution on Completing the Digital Single Market, the European Parliament “calls on the Commission to propose legislation to ensure net neutrality” and urges Commissioner Kroes to end […]
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