The need for cooperation among organizations active in Europe is increasing as more regulation regarding the internet, copyright and privacy is originating from European institutions, or from International institutions with strong impact in Europe. One major industry being impacted by these new protocols is medical tourism, where citizens cross borders seeking less expensive medical care. Many other industries are impacted, especially those that rely on cross cultural interaction, something magnified by the internet.
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Netherlands - first country in Europe with net neutralityFrance: Google sent again to court for its search suggestion serviceConcerns regarding plans for a new EU United Patent CourtUK High Court orders ISPs to block The Pirate BayPortugal: Suing users for copyright infringement does not workSlovakia: Mandatory e-forms work only on software from one vendorENDitorial: ACTA is not deadRecommended ReadingAgenda
ACTA – if you think we've won, we've lost European Court of Justice ruling in the Bonnier caseSpain: Draft law criminalising online organisation of public protestsThousands of Austrians standing up against data retentionEU Parliament agrees to EU-US PNR Agreement YouTube loses a case in Germany to collective society GemaFBI seizure to threaten anonymity and freedom of speechBig Brother Awards Germany 2012ENDitorial: The day the HADOPI stream flowed into the Pirate BayRecommended ActionRecommended ReadingAgenda
Ruling
Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP), Perfect Telecommunication, to court to obtain a court order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) if, assuming such a measure was proportionate, a Member State could introduce legislation which would require telecommunications data to be made available for such purposes. More specifically, would such a national measure be in breach of the Data Retention Directive?
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Marielle Gallo MEP (EPP, France) has published her draft report (only in French for the moment) for the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). As one would expect, she is urging her colleagues to support ACTA. She is also launching the counter-strategy described in an article published on the EDRi website on 5 March.
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A leaked G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and USA) document gives the strongest indication yet that the leading countries behind ACTA are working on the basis that the Agreement is now in serious trouble and needs to be fundamentally re-thought and re-worked – and in its current form even abandoned.
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New EDRi membersUK: Home Office plans new surveillance measures9 June 2012 – European Action Day Against ACTASpanish Sinde law brings about the first website take down requestsPoland: Almost 2 million accesses to electronic communication dataHadopi report says nothing about decreases in salesHungary: freedom of information restricted by new draft lawNew CoE recommendations for human rights in Internet servicesDraft Online Safety Bill to block pornographic sites in UKENDItorial: Searching for a Google strategy?Recommended ActionRecommended ReadingAgenda
EU-US PNR Agreement: A bad day for civil liberties in EuropeEU-US joint commitments on privacy and protection of personal dataFrance: Biometric ID database found unconstitutionalICANN will cooperate in taking down websites for copyright infringementsCoE's Internet Governance strategy places emphasis on users' rightsNew German court decision on traffic filteringItaly: Problematic Internet blocking decision against fraudulent websiteENDitorial: European Parliament defends itself and democracy from ACTARecommended ActionRecommended ReadingAgenda
First vote in the EP on PNR Agreement with the USAGoogle and Facebook blocked by the Danish child pornography filterCEO Coalition to make the Internet a better place for kidsSpanish DPA asks ECJ on right to be forgottenUK Court of Appeal stands behind the Digital Economy ActACTA debates in EuropeeVoting: Electronic urn modified by "a simple procedure"EDPS on the new draft EU data protection policyWinners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards announcedGerman Constitutional Court rules on access to personal dataENDitorial: About copyright reformRecommended ActionRecommended ReadingAgenda
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Support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all is the message of this year's world day against cyber-censorship. For the fourth time, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has published a report listing the worst violators of online free speech worldwide.
In the following, we want to focus on the top 5 threats to free speech - and on the top 5 positive developments in Europe. In the past few years several EU member states have introduced worrying policies that undermine the openness of the Internet, such as online censorship, surveillance measures,
(voluntary) website blocking
or the adoption of repressive Internet laws.
RSF lists France as one of "countries under surveillance".
The Internet has become increasingly important for all kinds of protest, from the Arab spring to the off- and online demonstrations in the US and over 200 different European cities against misguided proposals such as PIPA, SOPA and ACTA.
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Introduction
Following the initial discussions in the European Parliament and the overwhelmingly negative workshop that was held on 1 March, ACTA is close to dead in Europe. What are the strategies for bringing it back to life and how will this impact on other similar initiatives? How can activists ensure that our great success so far can be maintained?
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