Privacy and technology

• Netherlands - first country in Europe with net neutrality
• France: Google sent again to court for its search suggestion service
• Concerns regarding plans for a new EU United Patent Court
• UK High Court orders ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
• Portugal: Suing users for copyright infringement does not work
• Slovakia: Mandatory e-forms work only on software from one vendor
• ENDitorial: ACTA is not dead
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• ACTA – if you think we’ve won, we’ve lost
• European Court of Justice ruling in the Bonnier case
• Spain: Draft law criminalising online organisation of public protests
• Thousands of Austrians standing up against data retention
• EU Parliament agrees to EU-US PNR Agreement
• YouTube loses a case in Germany to collective society Gema
• FBI seizure to threaten anonymity and freedom of speech
• Big Brother Awards Germany 2012
• ENDitorial: The day the HADOPI stream flowed into the Pirate Bay
• Recommended Action
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• New EDRi members
• UK: Home Office plans new surveillance measures
• 9 June 2012 – European Action Day Against ACTA
• Spanish Sinde law brings about the first website take down requests
• Poland: Almost 2 million accesses to electronic communication data
• Hadopi report says nothing about decreases in sales
• Hungary: freedom of information restricted by new draft law
• New CoE recommendations for human rights in Internet services
• Draft Online Safety Bill to block pornographic sites in UK
• ENDItorial: Searching for a Google strategy?
• Recommended Action
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• EU-US PNR Agreement: A bad day for civil liberties in Europe
• EU-US joint commitments on privacy and protection of personal data
• France: Biometric ID database found unconstitutional
• ICANN will cooperate in taking down websites for copyright infringements
• CoE’s Internet Governance strategy places emphasis on users’ rights
• New German court decision on traffic filtering
• Italy: Problematic Internet blocking decision against fraudulent website
• ENDitorial: European Parliament defends itself and democracy from ACTA
• Recommended Action
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• First vote in the EP on PNR Agreement with the USA
• Google and Facebook blocked by the Danish child pornography filter
• CEO Coalition to make the Internet a better place for kids
• Spanish DPA asks ECJ on right to be forgotten
• UK Court of Appeal stands behind the Digital Economy Act
• ACTA debates in Europe
• eVoting: Electronic urn modified by “a simple procedure”
• EDPS on the new draft EU data protection policy
• Winners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards announced
• German Constitutional Court rules on access to personal data
• ENDitorial: About copyright reform
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• The Netlog and Scarlet/Sabam rulings & ACTA - what have we learned?
• More ISP blocking in different EU countries
• Internet communications heavily monitored by German intelligence services
• UK: Home Office spy plan
• Protect Coders’ Rights!
• European data protection authorities: Google violates privacy rules
• Private copy levies draft law in Portugal
• EU standards reform: Carte blanche stifles open formats
• Twitter censors unfavourable Sarkozy accounts
• ENDitorial: Member States turn a drama into a crisis for Commissioner Malmström on data retention
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• European Anti-ACTA protests of 11 February
• European Commission discusses tactical, partial retreat on ACTA
• EC “Roadmap” for review of the IPR Enforcement Directive
• Hadopi takes the final steps towards cutting Internet access
• Two Strikes in Germany?
• Software-hardware bundling not accepted in France
• UK: 3 million checks on criminal records in 2011 
• RFID - a dangerous fashion trend highlighted on German streets by FoeBuD
• Irish ISP puts its customers’ personal data at risk
• ENDitorial: EU DP Regulation Proposal: The French CNIL defends its turf
• Recommended Action
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• Email Newsletter EDRi-gram 10.2 delayed
• ACTA - Frequently Asked Questions
• Data Protection Week 2012: CPDP and the BarCamp
• Police frequently uses Silent SMS to locate suspects
• The Lobby on ACTA is reaching a new level
• ACTA “uprising” in Poland
• FAVA’S bill: Another attempt to limit civil rights in Italy
• Geolocation censorship to be applied by Twitter
• Belgian Big Brother Awards 2012
• ENDitorial: EDRi’s initial comments on the Data Protection Regulation
• Recommended Action
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‘Activist guide to the Brussels Maze’; ‘EU Surveillance’; and ‘How the internet works’.

• EDRi supports protests against US blacklist legislation
• What’s Wrong with ACTA Week
• The US pressure on Spain to censor the Internet has paid off
• Belarus strongly censors the Internet
• Commission confirms illegality of Data Retention Directive
• Romanian Senate rejects the new data retention law
• Finnish ISP started blocking The Pirate Bay
• Dutch Internet providers forced to block The Pirate Bay
• US continue pushing on EU Commission against Data Protection proposals
• Researchers say smart meter technology is privacy intrusive
• ENDitorial: Copyright vs Public Domain-copyright as a barrier to culture?
• Recommended Action
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• Support EDRi!
• Council of Europe and European Commission initiatives on Internet freedom
• Brief overview of the leaked EU Data Protection Regulation
• Russian Government’s new attempts to censor the Internet
• European Parliament: raising awareness on “self”-regulation
• Austria: Petition against Data Retention Directive
• German web blocking law repealed
• A fair Internet for all?
• Transatlantic data privacy in debate at Privacy Conference
• UK: Medical records in the open data programme?
• Recommended Action
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• Scarlet v SABAM: a win for fundamental rights and Internet freedoms
• Proposed US-EU PNR Agreement made public
• Dutch Parliament: no discussions on ACTA if negotiations are still secret
• Turkey launches Internet filtering scheme
• US crackdown on global domain names and IP addresses continues
• Italian Police blocks sites that had banners to alleged illegal websites
• EU-US summit joint statement ignores European civil rights
• Two years into the Stockholm Programme: on the way to e-Fortress Europe?
• New Guidelines to RFID Privacy Impact Assessments
• ENDitorial: Advocate General on Data Retention: Strange answer&question
• Recommended Action
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• EDRi letter: EC proposes reduced retention periods for retained data
• US court allows access to world-wide Twitter accounts data
• Online Distribution of Audiovisual Works: EDRi’s answer to the EC
• Unlocking education in the Netherlands
• EDRi Responds to BEREC’s Consultation on Net Neutrality and Transparency
• 2011 Public Voice Civil Society Conference: “Privacy is Freedom”
• 33rd International DPA Conference in Mexico City
• Will the new flawed EU-US PNR agreement be approved by the EP?
• ENDitorial: Copyright combinatronics
• Recommended Action
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• Four strikes against web blocking in Brussels
• The Russian Government plans to control the online media
• EU-Australia agreement on travel data transfers adopted by EP
• Finnish ISP ordered to block The Pirate Bay
• Ukraine draft law on decency threatens freedom of speech
• Vote on Net neutrality in the European Parliament
• Austrian Big Brother Awards 2011
• Higher numbers of content removal requests from governments to Google
• The European Commission encourages the digitisation of culture
• Recommended Action
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• European action week on airline passenger surveillance
• The latest developments on ACTA in the European Parliament
• German police accused of using a Trojan backdoor for interceptions
• Berlusconi’s wiretapping law threatens online publishers
• Phorm gets back on the European stage
• EDPS’s Opinion on net neutrality & privacy
• European Parliament legal service confirms: ACTA may or may not be legal
• ENDitorial: Belgian music industry acts to undermine copyright law
• Recommended Action
• Recommended Reading
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