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EDRi publishes study on self-regulation and censorship
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Article published in EDRi-gram 9.2 European Digital Rights has published a study on the scale of measures being undertaken to outsource policing activities to private companies in the Internet environment and its significance for fundamental rights,...
European Digital Rights – Bonus EDRi-gram and best wishes for 2011
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The special BONUS EDRi-gram has been prepared by EDRi members and observers as a present for all EDRi’s website visitors an EDRi supporters. It contains information regarding the association European Digital Rights (EDRi), its Brussels Office a...
European Court of Justice ECJ to discuss the case of eBay & trademark infringement
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.24. Free subscription ! In the case introduced by L’Oreal against auction site eBay and referred by the High Court of Justice (England and Wales) to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) the Advocate General, Niil...
European Council text on child porn Internet blocking – breaking the law to fight crime
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.24. Free subscription ! The Council of Justice Ministers adopted a text on web blocking at its recent meeting in Brussels on 2-3 December 2010. The Belgian Presidency, for domestic reasons, felt obliged to adopt a tex...
Rule of law in the hands of private companies.Wikileaks is just the start.
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.24. Free subscription ! Private-sector attempts to undermine and attack the ability of WikiLeaks to function on the Internet have attracted much attention. Their domain name wikileaks.org) was was taken out of s...
European Commission finds solution on notice and takedown, but it still seeks what is the problem
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.24. Free subscription ! On 15 December 2009, the European Commission held its third meeting on “public private cooperation to counter the dissemination of illegal content in the European Union. The first meeting...
Digital Rights Recommanded Reading
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.23 IViR: Moving Towards Balance – A study into duties of care on the Internet (2010) http://www.ivir.nl/publications/vaneijk/Moving_Towards_Balance.pdf OSCE FOM Preliminary report: Study of legal provisions and...
European Commission’ Internal Security Strategy – My dog is a cat
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Published in EDRi-gram 8.23 The European Commission (EC) recently published its “Internal Security Strategy” – a wide-ranging security programme covering international crime networks, radicalisation, cybersecurity, border management...
Azeri bloggers released from prison
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Published in EDRi-gram 8.23 After a long and continuous pressure from several civil society groups and European international organisations such as the European Parliament, the Presidency of the European Union, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Counc...
Internet blocking – key decisions to be made by 3 February 2011
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Published in EDRi-gram 8.23 The legislative process on Internet blocking is about to move from almost standstill to almost completed between now and the beginning of February. In the Council of Ministers, an informal agreement is planned for the Just...
Will we have Internet blocking in ten weeks ? It’s up to you !
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Published in EDRi-gram 8.18 Within the next ten weeks, the European Parliament will finish its crucial first reading of the Directive which, if the European Commission has its way, will impose an EU-wide blocking infrastructure - undermining child pr...
ENDitorial: Commissioner blames USA for imposition of EU censorship
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.7 In a blog post, Commissioner Malmström’s press spokesman Love Berggren placed the blame for the perceived need to impose EU-wide blocking squarely at the feet of the governments in the USA, Russia and Ukrain...
Personal data: a comic book for European young adults
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Information and communication technologies (telephone, Internet, emails, blogs and social networks) make daily life and relationships with our relatives, friends or even strangers easier. Young people and young adults make a particularly intense use...
German Court rejects Data retention ! Civil liberties group call for Civil liberties activists call for the political end to retention of telecommunications data
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The German Constitutional court declared the data retention law as unconstitutional, in a landmark decision given today 2.03.2010. After data retention ruling: Civil liberties activists call for political end to retention of telecommunications data +...
WIPO Broadcast treaty resurrected in Council of Europe
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.3 On January 28 and 29, the Council of Europe held a consultation meeting on the launch of work on a new international instrument that would create neighbouring rights for broadcasting organisations. The purpose of th...
Belgian transposition of the Data Retention Directive
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Article published in EDRi-gram 8.3 The transposition of the Data Retention Directive in Belgium has remained stagnant for a long time. Following a public consultation in May 2008 on a first draft law proposal and draft royal decree to transpose this...
European Parliament needs to reject the SWIFT deal !!
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See now FAQ on Swift also in French, German, Italian and Finnish In German http://www.edri.org/files/SWIFT-FAQ_2010-02-10-DE.pdf In Italian http://www.edri.org/files/SWIFT-FAQ_2010-02-10-IT.pdf In French http://www.edri.org/files/SWIFT-FAQ_2010-02-10...
European Civil Society Data Protection Award - Call for nominations
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AEDH (European Association for the Defence of Human rights) and EDRI (European Digital Rights) launch the first edition of the European Civil Society Data Protection Award (ECSDPA). The prize aims at rewarding positive initiatives contributing to the...
Towards International Privacy Standards
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(Please note that all notes from Live Blogging were taken live and might contain some errors) Last session from the Public Voice events - http://thepublicvoice.org/events/madrid0… Presenting the declaration - Global Privacy Standards for a...
Transborder Data Flow: Bridges, Channels or Walls? - live blogging at Public Voice event in Madrid
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See the previous workshops coverage Moderator: Prof. Yves Poullet, Computing Research Centre, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Belgium) Mr. Pedro Martinez, Fiscal, Madrid High Court (Spain) Data retention directive - scope to monito...
