edri-gram
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The European Parliament (EP) discussed on 2 September 2008 the draft directives to reform the EU framework on electronic communications (telecom package). Besides the debates on the telecom issues, the MEPs have discussed the role of the ISPs in combating Intellectual Property Rights violations and the modifications to the ePrivacy directive in order to include more provisions on consumer protection and data security.
Some of the amendments that were passed by the EP Committees were challenged by some of the speakers, beliving they could endanger the principle of the neutrality of the Internet. Rebecca Harms (Germany), David Hammerstein (Spain) and Eva-Britt Svensson (Sweden) considered that the proposals will just pave the way to France's graduated response and supported the idea that the ISPs should not become the police of the Internet. The filtering measures were challenged, following some of the conclusions in the seminar on the Telecoms Package and Network Filtering arranged by Swedish MEP Christofer Fjellne on 27 August 2008 ( as reported in the previous EDRi-gram). Of course, the French presidency representative considered that the ISPs should have the obligation to inform its users about unlawful content.
The dangerous amendments were also challenged by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). In his opinion issued just before the EP's debate, the EDPS presented "some observations about ad hoc amendments that may weaken the protection of personal data and privacy of individuals using the Internet. Some of the amendments that cause concern are related to traffic data and the protection of intellectual property rights, as well as regulation of notification of security breaches." The EDPS considered that if all the debatable amendments were adopted "the net effect will be increased monitoring of Internet users' activities, which inevitably would infringe upon their data protection and privacy rights."
The EDPS also expressed his positive remarks on some amendments to the ePrivacy directive: "The EDPS is particularly pleased about the inclusion of companies operating on the Internet under the scope of the obligation to notify security breaches. He is also pleased with the amendment that enables legal and natural persons to file legal actions for infringement of any provision of the ePrivacy Directive (not only spam)."
Viviane Reding, the EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, asked the EP not to limit the breach notification procedure only to serious cases accepted by the competent authority, as modified by the LIBE committee.
The vote on the entire Telecom package will take place in the next Parliamentary session during 22-25 September 2008.
The EP debate on Telecoms Package (2.09.2008)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sce/server/internet/cre/sce_cre_02.jsp
Telecoms Package : the spectre of the graduated response hangs over Europe
(3.09.2008)
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/telecoms-package_the-spectre-of-graduat...
EU Parliament debates telco reform ahead of vote (4.09.2008)
http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9402
Comments on selected issues that arise from the IMCO report on the review of
Directive 2002/22/EC (Universal Service) & Directive 2002/58/EC (ePrivacy)
(2.08.2008)
http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/...
EDRi-gram: Seminar on the Telecoms Package and Network Filtering
(27.08.2008)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.16/telecoms-package-seminar
EDRi-gram: Control on Internet users pushed with the new telecom package
(2.07.2008)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.13/telecom-package-internet
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Russian and Ingush human rights organizations, as well as OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), are asking for an investigation into the circumstances of the murder of Magomed Yevloyev, the publisher of ingushetiya.ru, an independent news website in Ingushetia region.
Yevloyev was a strong critic of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov. His website had reported on alleged Russian security force brutality in Ingushetia, a poor Russian region of about half a million people, mostly Muslims. Yevloyev was detained on 31 August by local Interior Ministry officials at Magas airport as he was returning to Ingushetia from Moscow and, according to the police, he was accidentally shot in the head while driven in a police car.
"Evloev is a well-known figure, perhaps, the main oppositional figure in Ingushetia. His death under such suspicious circumstances can't but cause questions," said Tatiana Lokshina, deputy director of Moscow office of Human Rights Watch.
Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE's representative on freedom of the media, said Yevloyev's death "is the culmination of an orchestrated campaign by the authorities of Ingushetia to silence the only critical voice in the region. Similarly to the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, this assassination represents a further deterioration of media freedom in Russia." He also stated that ingushetiya.ru had faced continuous pressure from the authorities, adding: "Only two months ago, I protested against the legal harassment of ingushetiya.ru and warned that official persecution of free journalism could result in violence". He also stated that Russia had to live up to its OSCE commitments and support, "rather than repress," free debate, free reporting, and media pluralism.
The "Mashr" human rights organization which has conducted its own investigation into the circumstances of Yevloyev's death, commented: "If the evidences of eyewitnesses that we have registered are true, there are grounds to suspect President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov and Minister of Internal Affairs Musa Medov of participation in Magomed Evloev's murder."
During Yevloyev's funeral, on 1 September, an anti-government protest started in Nazran. The Russian police and special forces dispersed the demonstrators by firing warning shots and hitting the demonstrators with batons. The demonstrators were asking for the resignation of Ingushetia's Kremlin-appointed governor, Murat Zyazikov, who has been many times criticised by human rights groups and local activists for the disappearances of several people in the region.
Human rights organizations demanded that the investigation of Yevloyev's death should be entrusted to the federal and not local investigators.
OSCE Says Yevloyev Killing the 'Culmination Of Orchestrated Campaign'
(3.09.2008)
http://www.rferl.org/content/OSCE_Says_Yevloyev_Killing_the_Culminatio...
Police 'break up Ingush protest' (2.09.2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7593877.stm
Kremlin critic shot in Ingushetia (31.08.2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7590719.stm
Russian police break up demo over Kremlin critic's death (3.09.2008)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRZXWDbhtpfdiO2xXWBMME0yIOeA
Zyazikov and Medov suspected of participation in murder (4.09.2008)
http://ingushetiya.wordpress.com/
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The European Chapters Coordinating Council of the Internet Society (ISOC-ECC) issued a press release on 5 September 2008 expressing its opposition against the "graduated response" proposed by the so-called HADOPI law presented to the French Council of Ministers in June 2008. The same arguments were also submitted to the European Commission in an Aide Memoire sent on 4 August 2008.
While the issue is under debate in the European Parliament, the Aide Memoire, signed by France, Poland, England, Germany, Wallonia, Belgium, Romania, Luxembourg, Italy, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Spain, Netherlands as members of ISOC-ECC, comments upon the "proposed restrictions on access to and use of the Internet, in the name of protection of intellectual property rights". ECC believes that the proposed French law "is a disproportionate response to the stated objectives of the EU Commission's Communication and that the proposed measures and sanctions reflect a lack of understanding as to the nature of the Internet with unfavourable consequences for the use of the Internet for many economic and social purposes."
While ISOC members generally support established copyright laws, including protecting users' rights, they believe that the measures and penalties proposed show a lack of understanding of what Internet means. In their opinion, the HADOPI law tends to look backwards thus confirming the concern that the media industries have not yet adapted their business and commercial activities to the present situation. "However, the global reach of the Internet and its continued rapid expansion, energetically promoted by the public authorities in nearly all countries, is the basic fact and context for any understanding of this matter" says the Aide Memoire.
ISOC members also consider that the graduated response is bad both from the economical as well as social point of view. "The Internet has become an essential social and administrative tool for many public and private purposes. Disconnecting households would interfere with and undermine the provision of public services by national and EU administrations and of education by the schools. Such measures would also prejudice the introduction of on-line banking and electronic commerce in general". What must also be considered is that within the EU legislation, a member state cannot interfere with the transboundary provision of electronic services.
The HADOPI project and the graduated response would imply the collection and retaining of a huge amount of personal data during the investigations of Internet users suspected of illegal downloading. But there is no clear legal framework related to the treatment of these data. Improper protection or loss of data can cause prejudices to the people in question.
The Aide Memoire concludes that the proposed measures would not achieve the declared objectives appearing to be "technically flawed and probably legally unenforceable, at least in a non-discriminatory manner." The measures would involve an "unacceptably high level of monitoring of individual use of the Internet" and would "interfere with several other priority objectives associated with generalised broad-band Internet access and with the EU Internal Market for electronic commerce."
The recommendation is that before taking such legal and administrative measures, the industries should find business models that would take into consideration the changes of the media as a result of the Internet and the digitisation of communications.
At the same time, against all oppositions and concerns, in France, the HADOPI law, now called "Creation and Internet", will be examined by the French Senate probably in October this year. It seems that SNEP, the association of the music industry in France, is worried that the law might be rejected and has sent a letter to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy to remind him of the promises he had made to support the music industry. The association wants to be sure that the discussion of the law in the Parliament is pushed for this Autumn.
Albanel, the French Ministry of Culture having supported and pushed the law, has assured the industry that the plans were according to the schedule for this Autumn and the law was to be put into application at the beginning of 2009. The law is presently in the hands of the Cultural Commission of the Senate.
ISOC-ECC Aide Memoire - Internet - creative content and "graduated
responses" (4.08.2008)
http://www.isoc-ecc.org/docs/ipr2008/GRADUATED_RESPONSES_FIN2_040808.p...
Letter from ISOC-France to the French Senate (only in French, 27.06.2008)
http://www.isoc.fr/25-juin-08-audition-devant-le-senat_breve0045.html
The European Coordination of the Internet Society against HADOPI project: a
substantiated opposition (only in French, 6.09.2008)
http://isoc.fr/spip/spip.php?article92
Hadopi Law: Albanel reassures the producers on the timeframe (only in
French, 2.09.2008)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/10538-Loi-Hadopi-Albanel-rassure-les-...
EDRi-gram: France pushes for ISPs' involvement in fighting illegal file
sharing (30.07.2008)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.15/france-isp-culture
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UK consumer watchdog, the National Consumer Council (NCC), together with other consumer groups want the European Commission to force companies to publicly admit when they lose customer data. A data breach notification law would make companies keep data more securely.
"What we're asking for is when the kind of data has been lost that can pose a serious risk in terms of identity theft or taking over bank accounts or cleaning out bank accounts and so on, that the consumers are notified so that they can take appropriate measures" said senior policy advisor Anna Fielder adding that "It will be an incentive for businesses to put better security measures in place because obviously that can cause a lot of brand damage if you notify your customers too often that you've been negligent with their data."
In November 2007, the European Commission proposed breach notification laws and in January 2008, the House of Commons Justice Committee adopted the same path. Robert Hannigan's review in March 2008 recommended breach notification laws for public sector bodies, outlining plans for the overhaul of data security in all major government departments.
Although no legislation is yet in force in UK, in May 2008 the Information Commissioner (ICO) was given the capacity to fine organisations if their operational procedures caused a gross breach of data protection principles. This was introduced into the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill but the offence was so widely drafted that it risked criminalising activities such as the passing of personal details to suppliers for business purposes. ICO has even said that such a breach notification law could be counterproductive because frequent news of breaches could desensitise people to the effect of very serious breaches. He said that in order to be acceptable, any data breach law would have to establish the level at which breaches are reported correctly.
Now, NCC believes ICO should have more powers: "The Commissioner should have increased powers, fining people for data breach negligence. At the moment the Commissioner has no such powers so there is no incentive very often for companies to put appropriate security measures in place."
The NCC and other European consumer watchdogs want the revisions of the proposed breach notification laws to be extended to all businesses that collect significant amounts of customers' personal data, including banks, credit card companies and traders.
In Fielder's opinion, the ICO itself could decide at what point a breach should be made public. "There obviously should be a proper evaluation and risk assessment of breaches. (...)There is no point panicking consumers every time, it is important to inform people when there is a risk. This can be done by notifying the ICO who can evaluate and make a risk assessment" she said.
The issue of public data loss has been a hot issue lately with the several incidents of personal data loss in UK& Ireland, such as HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, the loss of data on 84 000 prisoners by a Home Office contractor, the personal data of one million bank customers that was found on a server sold on eBay or the loss of the personal data of about 10 000 customers of the Bank of Ireland.
Later this month, The European Parliament will vote on the proposal made by the European Commission which has published a package of telecoms industry reform measures containing a proposal that electronic communications providers should be forced to disclose any data breaches. (subject covered in the first article of this EDRi-gram)
Consumer group asks EU for security breach law (3.09.2008) http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9400
Information Commissioner gets power to fine for privacy breaches
(12.05.2008)
http://www.out-law.com/page-9110
Watchdog demands data breach confessions (1.09.2008)
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39282263,00.htm
Watchdog aims to compel data-breach confessions (2.09.2008)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39483398,00.htm
ICO: UK may get data-breach notification law (4.07.2008)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39442182,00.htm
EDRI-gram: Important personal data lost by the Bank of Ireland (7.05.2008)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.9/personal-data-bank-ireland
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Electronic Frontier Finland's (Effi's) 'shadow report' on the Finnish e-voting pilot has been translated into English and is available now on Electronic Frontier Finland web pages. The original Finnish version was published on 19 June 2008. The English version has been updated to include commentary on the University of Turku audit report.
Finland is piloting a direct recording electronic (DRE) type, polling station based (non-remote) e-voting system in its municipal elections in October 2008. In the proposed system, Effi argues that ensuring the correctness of the results is extremely difficult. The voting results may be affected by multiple components of the e-voting system, and observing the counting process of ballots is impossible in the traditional sense. The results may be affected by a small group of people, either involuntarily through programming errors, or with malicious intent. The inspections and audits of the system presently apply only to parts of the system, and even in these cases, citizens must trust specialists as major parts of the system software are considered to be trade secrets.
In addition, the audit of the system found that it may be possible to find out how an individual has voted, if an attacker gets access to the electronic ballot box and certain encryption keys, both of which are planned to be archived for several years.
Electronic Frontier Finland's shadow report compares the Finnish e-voting system with the Council of Europe recommendations for e-voting, and argues that the fully electronic voting system, which will be used in the Finnish e-voting pilot, does not meet these recommendations.
Incompatibility of the Finnish e-voting system with the Council of Europe
e-voting recommendations (1.08.2008)
http://www.effi.org/system/files?file=FinnishEVotingCoEComparison_Effi...
EDRi-gram: Finnish e-voting system must not stay a trade secret (13.02.2008)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.3/finland-e-voting
(contribution by EDRi-member Electronic Frontier Finland )
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On 2 September 2008, EDRi-member Association for Technology and Internet - APTI Romania organized an event to announce the availability of the localized Creative Commons (CC) licences.
The event was organized with the help of the Center for Independent Journalism and HI-Q band and gathered users of the CC licences, journalists and bloggers that discussed the way the CC licences would fit the present Romanian copyright-related framework.
Bogdan Manolea, the CC Legal Lead of the Creative Commons Romania project started with a presentation where he explained the CC philosophy and an introduction to the CC licences. The public was interested in other details of the practical implementation of CC licences starting with the way Attribution works and ending with the practical advantages of choosing CC licences for an artist.
On the latter issue, Florin Grozea from the popular band HI-Q pointed out that the licences are a valid solution to some of the problems the artists face, by providing a more flexible set of rules than the traditional copyright. He also presented a practical case with their older very well-known Hi-Q song - Gasca mea (My Mob), where they receive a lot of requests from teenagers to use the song in preparing non-commercial videos to share them online with their friends, whereas the purpose of the song is to share the fun spirit of the HI-Q band, so such a request should be granted directly. With a CC licence the conditions in using a creative work are very simple and easy to understand. On this occasion the HI-Q band announced a contest where the vocal tracks of the band for their next single will be released under the Romanian CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, and fans will be invited to create remixes of the tracks and upload them on music-sharing websites. The best covers might be also included on the next album of the band.
Razvan Rusu from Travka band, that released their last album under a CC licence last year, explained that they looked for "kind of an open source licence" that could be used for their music, so this is how they found and agreed to use the CC licences.
Ioana Avadani, from the Center of the Independent Journalism, emphasized the fact that the attribution in the today's reality might be more important than all the other author's rights. She also pointed out that the small TV and radio stations are now forced to close down, because of the demand to pay several copyright royalties, so basically, we are killing with the current copyright system the small local news sources.
The Romanian licenses are the 26th ported Creative Commons suite in Europe and the 47th worldwide.
Creative Commons Licenses in Romanian
http://creativecommons.org/license/?lang=ro.
CC Romania Promotes Creativity with Localized Licenses (1.09.2008)
http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/9092
Culture of freedom (only in Romanian, 3.09.2008)
http://legi-internet.ro/blogs/index.php?title=cultura_libertatii&m...
Creative Commons in Romania (only in Hungarian, 4.09.2008)
http://tech.transindex.ro/?cikk=8024
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On 5 September 2008, a Danish court decided that two woman that had been taken to court for illegally sharing music by Antipiratgruppen, anti-piracy affiliates, were innocent. The two women claimed they had not been the authors of the infringement, having been subject to WiFi theft.
Antipiratgruppen had sent letters to the two women who had P2P software on their computers, claiming the women had illegally downloaded copyrighted music and asking for compensations up to about 21 000 and 23 000 euro respectively. The women stated clearly that they were not the ones having done the downloading, claiming their Wi-Fi had been piggybacked by unknown persons. Being unaware of the alleged infringements, they believed they shouldn't pay any damages.
The music industry considers that an Internet subscriber is responsible for what others do on their connection, and the women were supposed to prove that they had not shared music with others. However, the court had a different opinion and acquitted the women of the charges. An IP address identifies only the owner of the Internet access and is not enough to identify the author of an action. The plaintiff is the one who needs to prove his allegations.
"It is an unusually clear and precise judgement. It is the plaintiff, who has the burden of proof. Many who have received letters with claims have been given the impression that they were required to pay. But we now have the court's word for that, they do not (have to pay). It is not enough to say that you are guilty of piracy due to owning a particular Internet access point" said Per Overbeck, the lawyer of the two women.
"We do not believe that this law is appropriate and we disagree with the Eastern Regional High Court's decision" said Torben Steffensen, Antipiratgruppen's lawyer who added "There should be a law that protects artists from losing income due to piracy. Therefore we would like to have the Supreme Court dealing with the issue".
However, Overbeck doubts that the case will get to the Supreme Court. "First City Court and now the High Court have taken a position, and things can only end by the Supreme Court, if OK'ed by people high in the Danish legal system. I can not imagine that this will occur. The courts have both followed standard law procedure. It is now the plaintiff, who has the burden of proof. If it is not lifted, they (i.e. the music industry) have lost the case" said the lawyer.
This is not the only case as recently, there was a similar decision in Germany, where a court has decided that the owner of an Internet connection is not responsible for copyright infringements carried out without his knowledge on the open WiFi.
Danish File-Sharers Not Responsible For Wi-Fi Theft (7.09.2008)
http://torrentfreak.com/danish-file-sharers-not-responsible-for-wi-fi-...
The Danish P2P users not responsible for the pirating of their WiFi network
(only in French, 8.09.2008)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/10586-Les-P2Pistes-danois-non-respons...
A huge legal system defeat for IFPI, Denmark, could create a precedent in
Europe (9.09.2008)
http://www.aom3.org/forum/f5/huge-legal-system-defeat-ifpi-denmark-cou...
Victims of WiFi Theft Not Responsible For Illegal Uploads (9.07.2008)
http://torrentfreak.com/victims-of-wifi-theft-not-responsible-for-ille...
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It has been revealed that the Spanish local police of Sada (Galicia) was keeping an illegal database with information and pictures of people, gathered during night patrols.
On 14 August 2008, a counsellor, a local police officer and a Guardia Civil sergeant discovered in an office of the USC (Unidade de Seguridade Cidadán - City Security Unit) an archive with the photographs and personal data of people identified during night patrols. Apparently the archive was locked and the council officials responsible with the local police had no access to the respective files.
The situation was considered as "irregular" and Mayor Abel López Soto announced an investigation into the matter, offering the council's co-operation with the Prosecutor's Office. Disciplinary proceedings have been opened against the local police chief inspector and the head of USC whose department was responsible for night-time patrols and was keeping the illegal files. The two officers accused the council of making-up evidence against them.
The Mayor stated its office had never been advised by the local police of the existence of such a database although the Mayor's office is in charge of municipal staff including the local police. Therefore, Sada council did not know about these databases which had not been subject "to prior registration required by Organic Law 15/1999... for the protection of personal data". He also said that the council might apply a fine of between 60 000 and 300 000 euro to the local police as, in terms of Organic Law 15/1999 the action is considered a "serious offence". He also claimed that he "will not tolerate strange behaviour outside of the law in any municipal department and by any person".
Apparently, there is a long history of political fight at the basis of the dispute between the Mayor and the police. Also, in the files, hand-written notes and coloured markings have been found showing a certain type of classification that may be related to the political affiliation of the subjects. One of the most serious issues is that part of the files refer to minors.
For the time being, the files have been left into the custody of the local police pending the prosecutor's office decision on whether the files should be confiscated or the inquiry should remain only an administrative one. On 18 August, the Movemento polos direitos civís (MpDC, Movement for civil rights) has issued a statement complaining about the prosecutor's office not opening a criminal investigation ex officio in such an important case. MpDC's statement says that the organisation intends to file a lawsuit against the local police to open a judicial investigation in case the prosecutor's office continues to drag on this case. MpDC also argues that this situation shows that the prosecutor's office depends on security bodies and that this is another case which proves the necessity of an independent body to investigate police conduct.
Illegal database held by local police in Sada (Galicia) (01.09.2008)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/sep/01spain-illegal-database.htm
O MpDC valora presentarse como acusación particular contra os policías de
Sada (18.08.2008)
http://mpdc.blogspot.com/2008/08/o-mpdc-valora-presentarse-como-acusac...
The Attorney General resists in investigating ex officio the political
scandal of Sada (19.08.2008)
http://www.vieiros.com/nova/68544/a-fiscalia-resistese-a-investigar-de...
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A European research and innovation strategy for ICT: time horizon 2020
In search of the best strategies to boost Europe's leadership in ICT
(Information and Communications Technology) research and innovation in the
next decade, the European Commission has launched a public consultation.
Contributions from industry, ICT experts, policy-makers and the wider public
will be fed into a new strategy for ICT research and innovation, to be
unveiled next year. The aim is to put European ICT industry, especially
SMEs, to the fore of the race for global competitiveness.
The public consultation is open until 7 November 2008.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1287&...
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Creative Commons evangelist and acclaimed author Cory Doctorow announced today the release of his new book, Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. Content is exactly what it claims to be - 28 essays on "everything from copyright and DRM to the layout of phone-keypads, the fallacy of the semantic web, the nature of futurism, the necessity of privacy in a digital world, the reason to love Wikipedia, the miracle of fanfic, and many other subjects"
Like his other novels, Doctorow has chosen to release Content both as a
print book for sale and as a free-to-download CC BY-NC-SA licensed PDF.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/9294
http://craphound.com/content/
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19 September 2008, Brussels, Belgium
High Level Expert Conference: Towards a European Policy on RFID
http://www.rfid-in-action.eu/conference
20 September 2008, Munchen, Germany
Demonstration Freiheit Weiss Blau
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freiheit_Weiss_Blau
22 September 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
Workshop on Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications
http://www.alpaca-workshop.org/
22 September 2008, Worldwide
OneWebDay - an Earth Day for the internet
http://onewebday.org/
24 September 2008, Paris, France
European Opensource Lawyers Event
http://www.eolevent.eu
24-28 September 2008, Athens, Greece
World Summit on the Knowledge Society
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm
30 September 2008, Vienna, Austria
Book launch and award presentation, quintessenz writing contest:
"At the end of the line" - a science fiction anthology pertaining
to civil rights, surveillance and data protection
http://sf.quintessenz.at/
11 October 2008, Worldwide
Action day "Freedom not fear"
Protests, demonstrations and activities against the surveillance mania
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2008
15-17 October 2008, Strasbourg, France
30th International Data Protection and Privacy Conference
http://www.privacyconference2008.org/
18 October 2008, Berne, Switzerland
Big Brother Awards Switzerland 2008
http://www.BigBrotherAwards.ch/
20-21 October 2008, Strasbourg, France
European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)
http://www.eurodig.org/
20-21 October 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marking the public domain: relinquishment & certification
Third Communia Workshop
http://communia-project.eu/node/109
24 October 2008, Bielefeld, Germany
Big Brother Awards Germany 2008
http://www.BigBrotherAwards.de/
25 October 2008, Vienna, Austria
Big Brother Awards Austria 2008
http://www.BigBrotherAwards.at/
3-6 December 2008, Hyderabad, India
Third Internet Governance Forum
http://www.intgovforum.org
10-11 December 2008: Tilburg, Netherlands
Tilting perspectives on regulating technologies, Tilburg Institute for Law
and Technology, and Society, Tilburg University
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/tilt/conference
27-30 December 2008 Berlin, Germany
25C3: Nothing to hide
The 25th Chaos Communication Congress
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/