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Deutsch: EU-Bürger gegen Google Street View
While Google intends to go on mapping localities in Europe through its Street View system, several EU countries continue to show reluctance to this service due to privacy issues.
In May 2010, Google was faced with big concerns in Germany after it had been revealed that Street View vehicles were collecting private data sent over Wi-Fi networks. Google stated it was a mistake and the data had never been used in any Google products and that anyway only fragments of payload data had been gathered.
As Google announced, it would re-launch its service in November 2010 and although the company stated it would allow Germans to opt out of Street View, thousands of Germans have requested their homes be removed from Google Street View.
Under pressure from the EU, Google accepted to allow German people from 20 cities to opt out from having their homes included in the service, but imposed a deadline 15 September 2010 until when they would receive written letters with the request for the opt-out. For the time being, Germany is the only country having this possibility.
The German government is to issue more comprehensive rules on data protection on the Internet this autumn.
In France, as Google would continue collecting 3D images of the streets in the areas yet uncovered, CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, considered the action as premature as its investigation of this Google's service is not yet concluded and asked to examine the hard disks containing the collected Wi-Fi data.
Also Spain has joined these countries and is investigating Google for alleged privacy violations and "computer crime" of its mapping service while taking shots of the city streets in Spain. A subpoena has been issued by the Spanish court following a complaint filed in June by private internet watchdog and technology consulting agency Apedanica.
"Every citizen holds under EU law the right of appeal against Google Street View. I expect that Google respect European rules on data protection - anywhere in Europe. The best way is a citizen friendly and non-bureaucratic tool for appeals," has recently told EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding to German daily Bild, adding that the period for appeal should be at last six weeks long.
Germans upset by Google Street View (13.08.2010)
http://euobserver.com:80/9/30620/?rk=1
Generational gap divides opinion on Internet privacy (18.08.2010)
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5920442,00.html
Spain takes on Google over privacy violations in Street View (17.08.2010)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7950503/Spain-takes-on-Go...
Google Cars will be back in France (only in French, 20.08.2010)
http://www.01net.com/editorial/519890/les-google-cars-vont-faire-leur-...
CNIL considers the re-entering into circulation of Google Street View
vehicles as premature (only in French, 20.08.2010)
http://www.cnil.fr/la-cnil/actu-cnil/article/article/2/la-cnil-juge-pr...
EDRi-gram: Austria puts more pressure on Google Street View (2.06.2010)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.11/austria-bans-street-view-cars
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Deutsch: Europäische ISPs sollen Zugang zu Glücksspiel-Seiten sperren
As a result of a case introduced by Arjel (the new French online gambling regulating authority) against Gibraltar-based site stanjames.com which had not responded to the authority's formal request to stop its services to French users, on 6 August 2010, the Paris High Court ordered ISPs to block access to the gambling site, which had no licence from the French authorities.
The court also ordered the ISPs to screen certain messages to prevent users from circumventing the blocking measures which ISPs consider as a wrong measure. "We are like the postal service, we do not open the mail," said Yves Le Mouël, head of the French telecoms federation.
According to the ruling, ISPs should "take all measures to allow blocking access to the respective services, either by filtering measures (...) by blocking the domain name, the known IP address, the URL or by the analysis of message content".
ISPs argued that taking such blocking measures was not only very difficult but also inefficient and that the responsibility of blocking sites should have been born by the host. They complained of the fact that the court had taken the easy road instead of going after the operator and its UK-based host. The ISPs also failed to obtain financial support to compensate for the costs imposed by blocking measures and were given two months to comply with the court decision or face a penalty of 10 000 euro/day. However, ISPs might be off the hook (just this time) as the gambling site expressed its decision to withdraw from the French market.
In Israel, ISPs have been asked to block sites for the first time. As gambling is illegal in Israel, ISPs have recently been ordered to block access to overseas gambling websites. At the beginning of August 2010, police representatives visited every Israeli ISPs to deliver the directive and give them a list of gambling sites and their IP addresses to be blocked.
ISPs argue that the order is useless as blocking measures on specific IP addresses can easily be circumvented (for example simply by creating new websites) and that, on the other hand, the police does not have the legal authority to block sites.
As the police asked for an answer from the ISPs within 48 hours of receiving the order, some of them required a one-week extension to study the legal and technological implications. The police however stated they had no intention to change the decision after receiving responses from the ISPs.
Similar pressure to ISPs is made in Lithuania. A decision by the Vilnius regional court asks the ISPs to implement technical solutions to block the unlicensed online betting companies. But the ISPs have asked the court for more details, considering that the proposed methods for blocking local access to foreign betting websites are inefficient.
Also, the Bulgarian draft gambling act contains a reference to Internet blocking in new Article 22 (12): "take decisions for filtering websites of organisers of games of chance who have not obtained licenses hereunder, and for restricting the access of internet users to such websites".
A Dutch commission on Internet Gambling in a report dated August 2010 also advised the Dutch government to make it possible to block access to websites without a gambling license, even if these are based in The Netherlands.
Online gambling has a very heterogeneous position under European legislations. A European Court of Justice (ECJ) recent decision upheld the Swedish Internet gambling ban, but only if the same rules and penalties applied to domestic unlicensed operators. The decision might open the doors for other similar measures in EU countries, even though the ECJ did not rule on the blocking via ISPs. And none of the countries seem to have a proper consideration for Internet liberties and to whether a site can really be blocked effectively via ISPs.
Justice orders ISPs to block an illegal gambling site (only in French,
9.08.2010)
http://www.01net.com:80/editorial/519707/la-justice-ordonne-aux-fai-de...
Police block overseas gambling websites (15.07.2010)
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/police-block-overseas-ga...
French court orders ISPs to block gambling site (13.08.2010)
http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=11306
Stanjames illegal gambling site removed from the French market (only in
French, 12.08.2010)
http://www.01net.com/editorial/519732/le-site-de-jeu-illegal-stanjames...
European Court of Justice decision - Case C-447/08 - Sweden Internet
gambling ban (8.07.2010)
http://bit.ly/bCtIY5
Lithuania operators resist foreign betting sites ban (6.08.2010)
http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2010/08/06/4943133.htm
Dutch report on internet gambling (only in Dutch, 23.08.2010)
http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/bestanden/documenten-en-publicaties/rappor...
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Deutsch: Rumänische Regierung plant elektronische ID-Karten
The Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration (MAI) submitted for public consultation, in the middle of August 2010, a new draft Ordinance for issuing mandatory electronic ID cards for Romanians starting with 1 January 2011.
Even though the decision of having an electronic ID card was taken in 2002 by Ordinance 69/29.08.2002, the practical implementation has been postponed several times since then, due to financial difficulties. Following the public outcry at the beginning of the 2010 against the biometric passports, there was no surprise that the new act suggested by the MAI has been received with concerns by the civil society.
According to the draft Ordinance, the new ID card will be obligatory for all citizens over 14 years old and optional for children from 6 years old and will include biometric data (2 fingerprints and the facial image) that will be stored on a chip in the ID card. The chip will include also other data, such as an electronic signature provided by the MAI. A similar eID card would be required for all other residents in Romania. The justification of the draft ordinance did not include any information regarding the possible problems of the current ID card or the security and privacy impact assessment of the new legal text. The only reference made was to the forthcoming accession of Romania to the Schengen treaty and the STORK programme, which will create the possibility of inter-operability between eID cards.
A hastily organized public meeting of the MAI with NGOs on the 20 August 2010 (the final date for public comments) revealed that Ministry could not provide any good reason why the new ID card was needed. Or why it needs to be promoted in such a rush. The Ministry representatives could not give any figures regarding current IDs cards falsified and used in illegal purposes or even a specific reason, besides "increased security", for having the fingerprints stored in the smart chip. They also said that we could not speak about fingerprinting, since there were "just two fingerprints stored." The authorities also claimed that the security features of the project (which are not publicly available in any document) - such as using the contactless technology instead of RFID, not having a central database of fingerprints, access to the biometric data on the eID card only with the consent of the card's holder, limited number of people having access to the data and only with a state-issued digital certificate etc. - would be enough to have an ID increased security and thus safer travelling in the European Union.
The participants in the meeting from the civil society expressed their disapproval for such a system that would cost the Romanian Government 32 million Euros +VAT. They claimed that the obligation to have an eID card was an useless and disproportional measure. Arguments related with human rights or freedom of conscience, as defined by the Romanian Constitution and ECHR, or current privacy legal framework were used to try to allow the possibility of at least an alternative for the people that don't want to have the electronic ID card.
A statement from the Romanian Data Protection Authority from the same day, 20 August 2010, expressed its negative opinion on the draft Ordinance, but claimed that the major change needed to consider only the minimum age, which should be 14 years old. But this is just information from their press release and the opinion, as such, has not been made public yet.
Several positions of the civil society expressed after the meeting - from the Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania-the Helsinki Committee, Institute for Public Policies, Activewatch or EDRi-member APTi have demanded the withdrawal of the current act and a significant privacy and security assessment of the project, if it is re-submitted later.
MAI representatives concluded that they would further on study the problems raised, but gave no answer if there would be any future meetings. The decision could have been taken also before the meeting since a public body (RAAPPS) has already started the procedure for the public acquisition of the eID technology with a public notice of acquisition made on 19 August 2010 with the process to start 7 days later.
Draft Ordinance on eID cards (only in Romanian, 12.08.2010)
http://www.mai.gov.ro/Documente/Transparenta%20decizionala/Proiect%20O...
Justification of the eID cards Ordinance (only in Romanian,12.08.2010)
http://www.mai.gov.ro/Documente/Transparenta%20decizionala/NF%20OUG%20...
APADOR-CH comments on the eID cards Ordinance (only in Romanian, 20.08.2010)
http://www.apador.org/show_report_nf.php?id=181
Public Policy Institute - Stop the 30 million deal on eID that we don't need
(only in Romanian, 23.08.2010)
http://bit.ly/axJCGz
Common position of APTI, Activewatch, CJI, MediaSind and Accept on eID
Ordinances (only in Romanian, 23.08.2010)
http://legi-internet.ro/blogs/media/blogs/a/scrisoare%20MAI%20CI%20bio...
Negative Opinon of the Romanian DPA for the eID for under 14 (only in
Romanian, 20.08.2010)
http://www.dataprotection.ro/?page=Aviz_negativ_al_Autoritatii_pentru_...
ENISA: Privacy Features of European eID Card Specifications (01.2009)
http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/it/eid/eid-cards-en
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Deutsch: Französische Behörden wollen Nutzer zur Installation von Spyware ver...
Hadopi (the French Authority for the implementation of the 3 strikes law) did not make public the document regarding the draft specifications of the security measures for the Internet (part of the three strikes system), although the document should lay at the basis of a public consultation.
However, under the pretext that the document was a preparatory one, the authority decided to treat it as confidential. The website Numerama.com has made the document public on the basis of the right to information and having in view that a public consultation should rely on a public document and not a confidential one.
According to the document, French Internet users could soon be required to install spyware on their PCs tracking down their searching habits and analysing the applications installed on their PCs, in order to prevent "file-sharing piracy".
The three strikes law came into force in June 2010 and it is still unclear what technical measures will be used to apply the scheme. According to the leaked document, Hadopi's spyware, that could be included in an antivirus and/or parental control solution, would log Internet usage on a certain PC with a clear text log file and an encrypted log file, that could be sent to Hadopi in case of a complaint.
The log files that are supposed to be kept encrypted for a year, should include detailed information regarding the date and time when certain applications were launched and the search for keywords that are blacklisted.
There will be several types of lists such as a black list of the sites forbidden by court order, a gray list of the suspicious applications, a gray list of suspicious key-words and a white list of the sites with a legal offer.
The document states that the respective solution should have a minimum effect upon the performances of the equipment, be easy to install and use, be available under an open source licence to all operating systems and not allow transmission of data to a third party. The registration of navigation or downloading history will be forbidden. Also, the use of the software would have to be voluntary, and the account holders would have the possibility to disable the application at will.
La Quadrature du Net has condemned the proposal and its spokesman Jérémie Zimmermann stated that it was worrying that "the government may seriously consider these log functions, recording the slightest facts and gestures of the users, and extending the system to all future devices".
Hadopi decided to explain the three strikes system by distributing during weekends 20-22 and 27-29 August, 260 000 information flyers to drivers coming back from their vacation, at toll points on France's motorways.
Exclusive: Hadopi secret document on securing means (only in French,
30.07.2010)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/16363-exclusif-le-document-secret-de-...
Securing: Hadopi, future referee of a "box" match? (only in French,
30.07.2010)
http://www.ecrans.fr/Securisation-Hadopi-futur-arbitre,10526.html
Hadopi Gone Wild: France Plans Spyware for Three Strikes (4.08.2010)
http://newteevee.com/2010/08/04/hadopi-gone-wild-france-plans-spyware-...
Hadopi: leaflets distributed at the toll posts this week-end (only in
French, 20.08.2010)
http://www.01net.com/editorial/519882/hadopi-des-tracts-distribues-aux...
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Deutsch: Einstweilige technische Aufsicht für EU-US SWIFT Abkommen
As on 1 August 2010 the so-called Swift agreement allowing EU citizens' bank data to be transferred to US is to come into force, the European Commission will appoint an interim "technical" supervisor to oversee the searches of US authorities on European bank transactions as part of anti-terrorist investigations.
After having initially rejected the agreement in February 2010, the European Parliament accepted it in July 2010, imposing the appointment of an EU supervisor who will be able to block part or all the searches conducted by US authorities that go beyond the scope of the agreement, such as random searches, computer filtering or algorithmic profiling.
As the procedure by which the US authorities will give clearance to the EU independent supervisor will last at least two or three months, the EU will appoint an interim supervisor for the time being.
"Because everything was rushed through, in the name of the 'security gap', we are now facing a supervision gap. But it's better to have someone provisionally than nobody at all," stated Dutch Liberal MEP Sophie in't Veld for euobserver.com.
According to Michele Cercone, spokesman for home affairs, the name of the interim person will not be made public and the appointment is a technical and not a political one.
While the European Commission states that the appointment will be based on an open contest, Ms in't Veld considers that the secrecy of the interim appointment is a wrong approach. "We don't want someone in the secret service, we need transparency, to be able to ask questions. It doesn't have to be a terrorism fighter, the job of this person is to oversee the implementation of the agreement. He or she should be a data protection specialist".
In fact the MEPs have formally asked that the European Parliament be involved in the selection of the oversight person when it gave its consent to the SWIFT II agreement: "Invites the Commission, in compliance with Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which requires that personal data be under the control of "independent authorities", to submit to the European Parliament and to the Council as soon as possible a choice of three candidates for the role of the EU independent person referred to in Article 12(1) of the Agreement"
US government declared its intention to work "very closely with the EU to implement all aspects of the agreement, including the role of the EU-appointed monitor." In the meantime the technical modalities for the Europol supervision of SWIFT requests by the US Deparment of Treasury have leaked on the Internet on 18 August 2010.
Commission official to bridge 'supervision gap' of Swift agreement
(29.07.2010)
http://euobserver.com:80/22/30558
EP adoption of SWIFT agreement (8.07.2010)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&...
SWIFT: Technical modalities for the Europol verification process
(18.08.2010)
http://euro-police.noblogs.org/2010/08/swift-technical-modalities-for-...
EDRi-gram: SWIFT agreement adopted by the European Parliament (14.07.2010)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.14/swift-20-adopted-european-parl...
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Deutsch: Einspruch von Azeri Bloggern vom Höchstgericht abgewiesen
The Azerbaijani Supreme Court took a disturbing decision on 19 August 2010 rejecting the appeal by bloggers and activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade thus upholding the previous decisions taken by the lower courts in 2009 that convicted the two bloggers under false accusations of hooliganism.
The two bloggers were arrested on 8 July 2009 after having appealed to the police as victims of an assault in a restaurant and, on 11 November 2009, Baku's Sabail district court sentenced them to 2 and 2,5 years of imprisonment respectively, on charge of hooliganism. Several NGOs, media, freedom activists, political institutions, OSCE Representatives for Freedom of the Media, the Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights and foreign diplomats including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have criticised the sentence expressing the conviction that the bloggers had been jailed for political reasons. The two young men were well known activists having expressed critical opinions to the Azeri Government.
"Milli and Hajizade are clearly in prison for exercising their right to freedom of expression", stated Article 19 Executive Director Agnès Callamard who considered that the decision only demonstrated "the lack of independence of the Azerbaijani judiciary".
Article 19 calls on the Azerbaijani government to release Milli and Hajizade from prison as well as other people imprisoned for political reasons and to cease the imprisonment of persons for expressing critical opinions to the Government.
Milli and Hajizade's lawyers said they would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
Azerbaijan: Supreme Upholds Bloggers' Convictions (20.08.2010)
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2010/08/20/azerbaijan-supreme-c...
Azerbaijan Supreme Court rejects bloggers' appeal: lawyer (20.08.2010)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzFVNQDkDjNEzrkPR9c...
Azerbaijani bloggers still jailed (23.08.2010)
http://www.panorama.am/en/law/2010/08/19/az-bloggers/
EDRi-gram: Azeri bloggers abusively sentenced by the Baku court (18.11.2009)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number7.22/azeri-bloggers-convicted-abuse
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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Entwurf zum neuen CR-Urheberrechtsgesetz durchgesickert
A leaked draft of the new Czech Copyright Act was obtained by Pirate News at the beginning of August 2010, after the Ministry of Culture has initially declined the request of Czech Pirate Party to have access to the document three days after the draft was sent out for feedback to organizations affected by the proposal. The draft presents a storm of "improvements" which grant millions of euro from public sector budgets to collecting societies.
The Czech Ministry of Culture, collecting societies and The Association of Copying Services Entrepreneurs have prepared a large-scale amendment to the copyright law. Where are the ordinary citizens who will be affected by this amendment? They are represented by the Ministry of Culture comparably to how the collecting societies represent authors on whose behalf they collect royalties.
The amendment will hurt users of copyrighted works, authors themselves and especially libraries and public sector budgets. It will also give support to further attempts to control the Internet. In addition, it will also grant the collecting societies access to citizen registry, on the trial operation of which we have reported about earlier. The amendment is extensive and it consequently erases even the slightest improvements achieved in the past years. Some sections even put us back before November 1989 because they propose compulsory registration of printers under penalty of fine.
Current draft hampers the use of copyleft licenses (e.g. Creative Commons) almost to the point of making it impossible. It grants the collecting societies the right to control orphan works and collect royalties for their use and it prohibits their distribution and reproduction without permission. It reintroduces the obligation to report all live performances to the collecting society OSAm including a detailed program. It strengthens the monopoly of current collecting societies and reduces competition in this segment. In addition, it abolishes the obligation of collecting societies to distribute collected royalties with respect to policy of supporting works and performances important to culture. It decreases compensation of authors and financially hurts public libraries and schools.
The Copyright Act draft contains a controversial section on the temporal effect of copyleft licenses (e.g. Creative Commons, also called public licenses in legal terminology). It imposes the obligation to notify collecting societies on authors each time they decide to publish their works outside the strict copyright framework. The legislation thus disrupts the idea of quick and simple publishing enabled by public licenses and forces bureaucratic elements into the system. Collecting societies would also have complete overview of copyleft works.
The draft states that: "If a right holder not represented on the basis of the agreement expresses his will to exclude the effect of cumulative agreement while providing gratuitous license, the effect of cumulative agreement is excluded to the extent of provided license in respect to the collective administrator at the moment when the collecting administrator is provably notified of the provided license."
That means that in order to achieve free distribution of copylefted work, the author has to notify the collecting society and he carries the burden of proof, that is, he has to prove that license has been provided, or if you like, the user of gratuitous license has to prove the collecting society has been notified, which is even harder. The amendment draft thus violates the declared support of public licenses.
The draft introduces the category of orphan works (section 27a of the draft) whose authors are not known or impossible to locate. The collecting societies would administer rights of these authors according to section 100c paragraph 1 of the draft: "The collective administrator represents the author of an orphan works even in the exercise of rights that are not subject to mandatory collective administration." Collected royalties would be stored for three to five years, the collecting society would deduct 20 percent overhead each year and the remainder would then be transferred to the national cultural or film fund.
Pirate News: Need money? Pass a bill! Draft of the new Czech Copyright Act
has leaked (10.08.2010)
http://www.ceskapiratskastrana.cz/wiki/:en:zo:docs:pn_autz_draft
Draft version of amended Copyright Act (only in Czech)
http://www.ceskapiratskastrana.cz/wiki/_media/kci:novelaautz.pdf
Article: Leaked draft version of the amended Copyright Act (only in Czech, 3.08.2010)
http://piratskenoviny.cz/?c_id=32402
(Thanks to Mikulas Ferjencik, Vice-president of PPCZ and Chief editor of www.piratskenoviny.cz Original article written by Jakub Michálek and translated by Martin Doucha.)
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Deutsch: Mitmachen!
Public consultation on the future of electronic commerce in the
internal market and the implementation of the Directive on electronic
commerce (2000/31/EC)
Please reply by 15 October 2010 at the latest, completing either the entire
questionnaire or just those parts related to your activities, interests.
Late responses will be taken into account only as much as possible.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2010/e-commerce_en.h...
Consultation on behalf of the Reflection Group ("Comité des Sages") on
boosting cultural heritage online in Europe.
The Reflection Group (Comité des Sages) has been entrusted by the European
Commission to come up with recommendations on how best to speed up the
digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material. This
consultation is launched by the Comité to feed its reflection and subsequent
recommendations. As the cultural sector is undergoing a revolutionary
transition worldwide, Europe is looking for innovative solutions to reap the
social and economic benefits of the technological advances. The Comité des
Sages is therefore seeking your views on key issues of this process,
including on the sources of funding for digitisation, the exploitation
models of content digitised with public funding or on conditions governing
public-private partnerships for digitisation.
You are invited to respond to the consultation by 30 September 2010.
http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=comitedessages&a...
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Deutsch: Lesestoff
Why I'm suing the Department of Homeland Security (25.08.2010)
http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001887.html
FAQ: Hasbrouck v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection(25.08.2010)
http://www.papersplease.org/wp/hasbrouck-v-cbp
USA: Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC): Documents reveal that
body scanners routinely store and records images (3.08.2010)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/aug/usa-epic-body-scanner-prel.pdf
Security Researcher Arrested for Refusing to Disclose Anonymous Source
(23.08.2010)
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/security-researcher-arrested-refu...
Annual report to the European Parliament and the Council on the activities
of the EURODAC Central Unit in 2009 (2.08.2010)
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/1_EN_ACT_pa...
Flash cookies and privacy (10.08.2010)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862
An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/privatebrowsing.pdf
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31 August - 3 September 2010, Budapest, Hungary
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International action day "Freedom not Fear - Stop the Surveillance Mania!"
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3rd Network and Information Security (NIS'10) Summer School
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28-31 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain
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