EDRi joined a huge international coalition in calling upon European and UN institutions to assess whether national and international surveillance laws and activities are in line with their international human rights obligations.
EDRi has endorsed a set of international principles against unchecked surveillance. The 13 Principles set out for the first time an evaluative framework for assessing surveillance practices in the context of international human rights obligations.
A group of civil society organizations officially presented the 13 Principles on 20 September 2013 in Geneva at a side event attended by Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion, Frank LaRue, during the 24th session of the Human Rights Council. The side event was hosted by the Permanent Missions of Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Hungary.
Navi Pillay, speaking at the event, said that: “technological advancements have been powerful tools for democracy by giving access to all to participate in society, but increasing use of data mining by intelligence agencies blurs lines between legitimate surveillance and arbitrary mass surveillance."
Frank La Rue made clear the case for a direct relationship between state surveillance, privacy and freedom of expression in this latest report to the Human Rights Council: “The right to privacy is often understood as an essential requirement for the realization of the right to freedom of expression. Undue interference with individuals’ privacy can both directly and indirectly limit the free development and exchange of ideas. … An infringement upon one right can be both the cause and consequence of an infringement upon the other.”
Speaking at the event, the UN Special Rapporteur remarked that: “previously surveillance was carried out on targeted basis but the Internet has changed the context by providing the possibility for carrying out mass surveillance. This is the danger.”
13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to
Communications Surveillance
https://NecessaryandProportionate.org
The UN High Commissioner Says Privacy Is a Human Right (20.09.2013)
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-un-high-commissioner-says-privacy...
The United Nations Meets 13 Principles Against Unchecked Surveillance
(20.09.2013)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/united-nations-meets-thirteen-pr...
The third hearing of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee
into surveillance of and by EU member states (24.09.2013)
http://storify.com/auerfeld/epinquiry-hearing-three
Edward Snowden’s opened Pandora box keeps revealing extended eavesdropping of intelligence services. As some new leaked documents and slides show, Belgium ISP Belgacom, which includes as customers the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament, was targeted by GCHQ, the British intelligence service.
On 16 September 2013, Belgacom expressed concern regarding an intrusion into its IT systems, having discovered an unknown virus which, according to Prime Minister Elio di Rupo, suggested “high-level involvement by another country”.
Der Spiegel revealed on 20 September 2013 that some leaked slides from Edward Snowden indicate the existence of GCHQ’s “Operation Socialist” which was meant to “enable better exploitation of Belgacom” and which targeted Belgacom employees with high-level access, by using the attack technology called "Quantum Insert". This appears to be a method to redirect the targeted person, without their knowledge, to websites that plant malware on their computers.
According to another document, access has been possible since 2010 and the British intelligence have had their eyes and ears especially on Belgacom subsidiary BICS, a joint venture between Swisscom and South Africa's MTN, which provides wholesale carrier services to mobile and fixed-line telcoms internationally, including hot areas such as Yemen and Syria. The goals of the agency included mapping of BICS network to understand Belgacom's infrastructure and to investigate VPN links from BICS to other telecoms providers. According to the leaked slides, this exercise has been successful and an undated document states that GCHQ was on the verge of accessing the Belgians' central roaming router that processes international traffic, or complex attacks ("Man in the Middle") on smartphone users.
GCHQ stated it would not comment on the leaks or on intelligence matters. Belgacom has stated the intrusion did not compromise the "delivery" of communications and that they filed a complaint “against an unknown third party and have granted since then our full support to the investigation that is being performed by the Federal Prosecutor.”
Latest Snowden reveal: It was GCHQ that hacked Belgian telco giant
(20.09.2013)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/20/gchq_belgacom_hack_link/
GCHQ ‘Hacked Belgium ISP Belgacom’ (20.09.2013)
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/gchq-belgium-isp-belgacom-attacks...
Belgacom Attack: Britain's GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm (20.09.2013)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agency-gchq-hac...
Russia has operated since 2012 a national blacklist of sites that allegedly do not comply with the law. The website blacklist currently includes hundreds of websites, from those promoting drug taking and suicide to those offering child pornography, but also sites that infringe the anti-piracy law. All these websites are to be blocked at the ISP level. Moreover, the legislation allows the blocking of sites that only link to infringing content if they do not take action within 72 hours of a complaint.
On 19 September 2013, telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor said that Facebook has been provisionally put on a list of banned Internet sites and asked to remove controversial content within three days. According to the watchdog "several users had complained that Facebook ads were advertising illegal products, leading to online stores selling the products." During the same day Facebook confirmed the controversial ads had been removed and the watchdog decided to keep the website out of the blocking list. But, according to some media reports, the site was never informed that it was facing a ban.
Just one day later, on 20 September 2013, Roskomnadzor confirmed that VKontakte, Russia's largest social network was also added to the blacklist and would be given three days to remove certain content on one of its pages following complaints.
Yet, on the 24 September 2013, Vladimir Pikov, a spokesman for Roskomnadzor, stated this was made by mistake. "In this case, someone checked a box against the address of the social network. The site has been removed from the list and restrictions on access to it have been lifted." This is not the first "mistake". Roskomnadzor has temporarily blocked access to Google and YouTube due to "technical errors" as well.
Artem Kozlyuk, head of RosKomSvoboda, an organization that monitors Russia's blacklist, told TorrentFreak that, besides to sites that are officially added to the blacklist, there are many thousands that are illegally blocked due to broad IP address-based filters and that they include even operating system sites, libraries, publishing houses, forums and personal blogs.
99% of sites currently blocked in Russia are illegally being subjected to blocking. At the moment, in quantitative terms, it's more than 30,000 sites, but decisions under the law have only been issued against 450 of them. The remaining sites are being blocked just because they are on the same IP address as those carrying the illegal material, explained Kozlyuk.
Facebook Added to Russian Website Blocklist, Joins 30,000 Unofficial
Others (20.09.2013)
http://torrentfreak.com/facebook-added-to-russian-website-blocklist-jo...
Russia's 'Facebook' Blacklisted by 'Mistake' (24.09.2013)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100764733
Russian Government Agency Threatens To Ban Facebook Over Illegal Ads
(25.09.2013)
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-facebook-ban-threat-advertising/25...
Russian Blacklist info (only in Russian)
http://rublacklist.net/
EDRi-gram: New Russian copyright law raises freedom of expression
concerns (28.08.2012)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.16/new-russian-copyright-law
Like most digital rights or information technologies conferences held since Edward Snowden’s revelations early June, the PRISM scandal and the NSA surveillance program were intensively discussed at the 2013 Public Voice Conference. The conference was held on 24 September 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, in conjunction with the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners on 25-26 September.
As well established for many years now, civil society groups, privacy advocates, data protection and privacy officials, technology experts and other professionals from different countries and regions gathered to discuss the overall theme of this year, “Our Data, Our Lives”, highlighting how important and overarching this issue has become in our everyday activities.
The first panel session discussed general developments and progress made in different regions of the world since the adoption of the Public Voice Madrid Privacy Declaration in 2009. Detailed reports from India and UK were provided, and the “13 Principles for Human Rights in Mass Communication Surveillance”, recently launched at the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council, were presented. These principles have been endorsed so far by 270 NGOs around the world, including EDRI. In the light of these developments, the provisions of the Madrid Civil Society Privacy Declaration, one of the main recent achievements of The Public Voice coalition remain more than ever relevant.
The second panel, moderated by EDRI member Meryem Marzouki, directly addressed the NSA surveillance program issue, as well as surveillance activities conducted by other intelligence agencies, including in Europe such as the UK’s GCHQ and its Tempora program, not to mention those programs that could also be run by governments which remained suspiciously silent following the Snowden’s revelations. Professor Paul de Hert, Caroline Wilson Palow (representing Privacy International) and Pablo Molina (member of the board of directors of The Electronic Privacy Information Center, the main convenor of The Public Voice coalition) presented and discussed the responses from American and European civil society organizations to these surveillance programs, as EDRI reported in previous issues of this newsletter.
Speaking on the same panel, David Medine, the chairman of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), reported that the mass surveillance issue has become after Snowden’s leaks the number one issue addressed by the PCLOB, which is currently holding hearings in the framework of its investigation on the NSA program, from the legal perspective (assessing the FISAA law); the constitutional perspective (with respect to both the 1st and the 4th Amendments of the US Constitution); and the policy perspective (examining whether the balance is struck properly between privacy and security objectives). While the investigation is still running, David Medine announced that PCLOB will produce a set of recommendations and make them public by the end of the year.
The third panel discussed the role of Internet intermediaries in data collection and explored the need for platform providers to assume responsibilities in data protection. EPIC’s David Jacobs provided insights on how recent technology developments can increase data collection, providing examples such as the use of Google glasses. Among the main highlights, Michael Donohue presented the OECD developments in this respect, underlying that the revision of the OECD privacy guidelines has not yet really answered the question of the Internet intermediaries’ role in data protection. The development of the OECD High Level Principles on Internet Policy Making has shown the increasing trend of governments to use intermediaries to achieve other policy goals, such as child protection or copyright enforcement. This dual capacity of Internet intermediaries makes the issue very difficult to address, and is actually among the strong concerns raised by the OECD Civil Society Information Society Advisory Committee (CSISAC), of which EDRI is an active member, during the discussion of the OECD high Level Principles.
The fourth panel, moderated by Anna Fielder (Privacy International) addressed EU-US trade discussion, namely the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP or so-called TAFTA), setting the scene from its title: “Will the United States be Given a Free Pass on Privacy Again?”. Jennifer Stoddart, the Canada Privacy Commissioner, presented a rather optimistic, though probably long term vision. While USA and Canada need to renegotiate trade agreements with the EU, seeking for new and diversified markets because of the economic crisis, at the same time many data protection laws around the world are strongly inspired from the EU strong data protection model; this situation, combined with active internal efforts by the US FTC to increase consumer data protection and with the revision of the OECD guidelines, is likely to push towards global stronger data protection.
It remains that transborder dataflows are a strong concern than can only be solved through a global data protection agreement, such as the Council of Europe Convention 108, as highlighted at the same panel by CoE’s Sophie Kwasny, who detailed the progress of the Convention’s revision. Kostas Rossoglou from BEUC (the European association of consumers unions) also made it clear that there are still many shortcomings in the EU legislation with respect to transborder dataflows, noting that “safe harbour is not safe”, but rather a loophole in this legislation, and that the free flow of information shouldn’t be confused with the free flow of commercially valuable citizens’ personal data.
In addition to these 4 panels, two keynotes were given, both chaired by Deborah Hurley (chair of EPIC board of directors). In its opening statement, The Polish DPA Wojciech Wiewiórowski reminded Poland history to underline the importance of the enforcement of privacy and data protection. During its lunch keynote, Jacob Kohnstam, Chairman of the EU Article 29 Working Party, reported on the closed session of the international Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, where no less than 9 resolutions were adopted, most notably “The Warsaw declaration on the “appification” of society”, as well as other resolutions on profiling, anchoring data protection and the protection in international law, openness of personal data practices or webtracking.
Plans to hold the 36th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners conference in the last week of September 2014 in the Island of Mauritius are announced. Will civil society have enough resources to hold its next Public Voice conference there as well?
The Public Voice 2013 Conference: “Our Data, Our Lives” (24.09.2013)
http://thepublicvoice.org/events/warsaw13/
The 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy
Commissioners (25-26.09.2013)
http://www.privacyconference2013.org/
The Public Voice Madrid Privacy Declaration (3.11.2009)
http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/
The 13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to
Communication Surveillance (20.09.2013)
http://necessaryandproportionate.org
US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)
http://www.pclob.gov/
2013 OECD Privacy Guidelines (07.2013)
http://www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/privacy.htm#newguidelines
OECD Council Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making
(13.12.2011)
http://www.oecd.org/internet/ieconomy/49258588.pdf
CoE Convention 108 and its modernization process
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/dataprotection/modernisation...
Resolutions adopted by the 35th International Conference of Data
Protection and Privacy Commissioners (24.09.2013)
https://privacyconference2013.org/Resolutions_and_Declarations
(Contribution by Meryem Marzouki, EDRi member IRIS - France)
Eric Snowden, the whistleblower behind the revelations regarding the electronic surveillance made by NSA, GCHQ and other intelligent services, has been nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the Greens/EFA group and GUE/NGL group.
The seven nominees for the 2013 Sakharov Prize were presented at a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Development committees and the Human Rights Subcommittee on 16 September 2013. The prize is awarded to honour individuals or organisations who make invaluable contributions to advancing human rights and fundamental freedoms.
EDRi member Article 19, supported by EDRi, wrote a letter to support Edward Snowden’s nomination:
"The Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought is awarded to individuals actively working to defend human rights and fundamental freedoms, in particular the right to free expression. We believe that Edward Snowden fully meets these criteria and is a worthy recipient of this prize.
As you know, in May 2013, Snowden revealed the extent to which the fundamental human rights to freedom of expression and privacy of millions of people around the world have been threatened by blanket surveillance by national security agencies. By doing so, and at great personal risk, he has shown enormous courage to stand up for human rights protection, and principles of openness, democracy and accountability.
We strongly encourage you to award the Sakharov prize to Snowden in honour of his courage and commitment to values that the prize represents."
In the next steps, the Foreign Affairs and Development Committees and Human Rights Subcommittee will hold another joint meeting on 30 September 2013 to vote on the short list of the three finalists. The laureate will be chosen by the Parliament's Conference of Presidents on 10 October 2013 in Strasbourg and invited to the award ceremony on 20 November 2013, also in Strasbourg.
2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - seven nominations
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20130916IPR200...
ARTICLE 19 supports Snowden's nomination for EU's Sakharov Prize for
Freedom of Thought (19.09.2013)
http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/37250/en/article-19-su...
The FBI admitted on 12 September 2013 that, in late July, it had secretly taken control of some servers located in France in order to plant a malware within a police action.
The agency has introduced the spyware on web pages hosted by Freedom Hosting, meant for Tor anonymization network. The hoster had been exposed since 2011 by activists from the Anonymous movement for hosting child pornography content accessible with Tor.
Eric Eoin Marques, Freedom Hosting’s operator, who had rented the servers from an unnamed commercial hosting provider in France, paying them from a bank account in Las Vegas, is actually fighting extradition to the US in Dublin on charges that Freedom Hosting has facilitated child pornography on a massive scale.
On 4 August 2013, all the sites hosted by Freedom Hosting (even those that had no connection to child pornography) started displaying a “Down for Maintenance” message with hidden code embedded in the page. According to researchers, the code exploited a security hole in Firefox to identify users of the Tor Browser Bundle. Mozilla confirmed the code exploited a critical memory management vulnerability in Firefox that had been publicly reported on 25 June 2013, and which had been corrected for the latest version of the browser.
It is not yet clear whether the French authorities have been advised about the FBI operation and the French Minister of Interior did not offer any clear answer.
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack (13.09.2013)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/
The FBI has hacked servers located in France to distribute a spyware
(only in French, 16.09.2013)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/27001-le-fbi-a-hacke-des-serveurs-sit...
The FBI hacks sites located in France : "no comment" from the State
(only in French, 19.09.2013)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/27031-le-fbi-hacke-des-sites-heberges...
Spain plans to toughen its legislation by including penal sanctions for publishing links to alleged pirated content. From a very relaxed environment some years ago, Spain is, more and more, giving in to US pressure after having been threatened to be put on the blacklisted countries.
Since his election in December 2011, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has continued to increase its anti-piracy legislation, including the Sinde law. Now, on the 20 September 2013, the Spanish government approved an amendment to the penal code that introduces penalties to the admins of sites offering links to copyrighted works without the work owners' permission. The infringers can face an up to six years jail sentence. Until now, the law would punish only those who copied or distributed copyrighted material.
The amendment will affect only those linking to copyrighted material "provided illegally by third parties, for commercial purposes", including those that make "direct or indirect profit," but not individual file-sharers, those operating P2P software or users of the link-hosting sites.
Media, legal specialists and even authors have doubts regarding the proportionality and efficiency of the new amendment. "I don't think the measures will solve the problem. One must make the final user aware of the fact that he is committing an infringement" said Sigrid Kraus, editor of Salamandra who believes its a question of education first.
Many, like local rock musician Sr Chinarro, believe his is just a pantomime as nobody would go to jail for just copying a disk or only for links. Also, in order to show that a file-sharing site operator has infringed the law, there must be a "significant breach of intellectual property rights" but there are no clear guidelines on what this really means.
The amendments approved by the government will be sent to the Parliament for debate and it remains to be seen if such a law will be really applied.
Spain readies hefty jail terms over internet piracy (20.09.2013)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/20/net-us-spain-piracy-idUSBRE9...
New penalties against piracy, other hopes for the sector (only in
Spanish, 21.09.2013)
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/09/20/actualidad/1379704980_231...
Spain strengthens its anti-pirating policy under the USA eye (only in
French, 21.09.2013)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/27051-l-espagne-muscle-sa-politique-a...
The jurists, sceptical to the prison penalties for piracy (only in
Spanish, 21.09.2013)
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/09/19/actualidad/1379619363_158...
Pirate Admins Face Six Years in Jail After Spanish Govt. Approves New
Bill (21.09.2013)
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admins-face-six-years-in-jail-after...
EDRi-gram: Spain: New draft law to increase copyright infringements
penalties (27.03.2013)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.6/spain-new-draft-law-copyright-...
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Deutsch: Vereinte Nationen diskutieren Überwachungsskandal
The surveillance scandal has now reached the United Nation’s Human Rights Council, which opened its 24th session last week to a volley of questions about privacy and spying, many of them targeted at the United States and United Kingdom. (That's perhaps not surprising, since U.N. representatives were among those listed as being monitored by the NSA and GCHQ).
The opening statement by the eminent South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay (now the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights) warned of the "broad scope of national security surveillance in countries, including the United States and United Kingdom," and urged all countries to "ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to prevent security agency overreach and to protect the right to privacy and other human rights." On 13 September 2013 the German Ambassador Schumacher delivered a joint statement on behalf of Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Hungary expressing their concern about the consequences of “surveillance, decryption and mass data collection."
The UN Human Rights Committee is also set to scrutinize the United States on their compliance with Article 17 (right to privacy) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The United States' written response to Human Rights Committee has already laid out a diplomatic response in favour of the Patriot and FISA provisions. It notably dodges the key question that is emerging from other countries regarding these programs: if the U.S. government cannot rein in its domestic surveillance program, riven as it is with constitutional and statutory problems, just how much worse are the controls on the surveillance of non-US persons?
This is not just a matter of the United States’ international reputation. The greatest risk to the Internet in the international arena right now lies in the formation of an unholy alliance between countries who are already seeking excuses to spy and censor the net and those, like the United States, who have previously argued against such practices, but are now having to defend their own surveillance excesses with similar language.
Without promising substantive reform at home, the U.S. and the U.K. risk alienating their own allies at the United Nations, while granting a carte blanche for other countries to pursue a repressive Internet agenda abroad. The Western countries implicated in the NSA scandal should grab onto the full set of principles as a liferaft: a way that they can show a commitment to transparency and proportionality in a way that obliges other countries to follow the same standards. Otherwise, the U.S. and the U.K. will be seen as having started a race to the bottom of privacy standards: a race too many other countries will be happy to join.
Full text: Surveillance at the United Nations (17.09.2013)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/surveillance-human-rights-counci...
Joint Statement by Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland
and Hungary to the Human Rights Council (13.09.2013)
https://www.eff.org/document/joint-statement-austria-germany-liechtens...
Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN (26.08.2013)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documents-show-ho...
Opening Statement by Ms. Navi Pillay United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council 24th Session (9.09.2013)
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13687...
Brazilian President Warns US On Surveillance, Calls For UN Reform (25.09.2013)
http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/09/25/brazilian-president-warns-us-on-sur...
(Contribution by Danny O'Brien and Katitza Rodriguez - EDRi member Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF)
The latest developments in the W3C working group on Do Not Track (euphemistically called the tracking preference working group) since the last time we wrote about this effort are not good, sadly.
First in late July the departure of Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford who fought tirelessly to ensure that the W3C process would have a meaningful outcome from a privacy-perspective. More recently the departure of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) who declared the process "a colossal failure".
It nonetheless is too early to declare the effort facilitated by the W3C as essentially over, but only for the reason that only the W3C can decide to end it at this stage. Given that the working group has only last June managed to decide that the standard is about gathering of personal data and not about use of personal data, a fairly basic issue that took it two years of fierce debate to settle, the amount of progress is negligible. And even that decision is not final, as has been indicated by the W3C co-chair.
Right now other advertising industry representatives have made it abundantly clear that they are only hanging on in the working group in order not to prevent it to formulate a standard that might force them to take internet users' privacy into account. In that context it is increasingly worrisome that the W3C is trying to rush to something resembling a standard, regardless of its contents. As laudable the efforts by W3C to come to a truly multi-stakeholder process may be, it would be better for W3C and the wider internet if it were to acknowledge defeat.
By now it has become abundantly clear that several industry players value their short-term interest too much over their long-term interests to be able to come to self-regulation. It is time for W3C to call it quits and time for the European Commission to step in. Both for the sake of citizen's privacy and European internet businesses for clarity on what constitutes consent for online tracking.
Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) - W3C Editor's Draft 13 September 2013
http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-dnt.html
Stanford privacy advocate gives up on ‘Do Not Track’ group (1.08.2013)
http://gigaom.com/2013/08/01/stanford-privacy-advocate-gives-up-on-do-...
Do Not Track's future in doubt as major ad group withdraws from talks
(17.09.2013)
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/4741028/do-not-tracks-future-in-doub...
EDRi-gram: ENDitorial: Last Call for the W3C Do Not Track process
(8.05.2013)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.9/w3c-do-not-track-process-closi...
(Contribution by Walter van Holst, invited expert to the W3C DNT WG - EDRi member Vrijschrift - Netherlands)
New Statewatch Journal: Informants, spies and subversion (08.2013)
http://www.statewatch.org/contents/swjournal23n2.html
Commission launches 'Opening up Education' to boost innovation and
digital skills in schools and universities (25.09.2013)
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-859_en.htm?locale=en
Pirate Bay Blocking Orders Should Be Overturned Under EU Law, ISPs Argue
(19.09.2013)
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-blocking-orders-should-be-overturne...
Viviane Reding: Data protection reform: restoring trust and building the
digital single market (17.09.2013)
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-720_en.htm
Internet intermediaries: Dilemma of liability (29.08.2013)
http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/37243/en/internet-inte...
27-30 September 2013, Brussels, Belgium
Freedom not Fear 2013
http://www.freedomnotfear.org/
http://www.freedom-not-fear.eu
1 October 2013, Warsaw, Poland
CopyCamp conference
http://copycamp.pl/en/
2 October 2013, Budapest, Hungary
ePSI Platform Workshop
http://epsiplatform.eu/content/register-now-epsi-platform-workshop-bud...
14-18 October 2013, Athens, Greece
RIPE67 Meeting
https://ripe67.ripe.net/
21-27 October 2013, Worldwide
Open Access week
http://www.openaccessweek.org/events
22-25 October 2013, Bali, Indonesia
Internet Governance Forum 2013
http://igf2013.or.id/
24 October 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The LAPSI 2.0 Conference: “The new PSI directive: What’s next?”
http://www.lapsi-project.eu/lapsi-20-conferences
25-27 October 2013, Siegen, Germany
Cyberpeace - FIfF Annual Meeting 2013
http://www.fiff.de/
19-20 November 2013, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Open Access Conference: 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration
http://www.berlin11.org/
27–30 December 2013, Hamburg, Germany
30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress
http://events.ccc.de/2013/07/18/30c3-call-for-participation-en/
22-24 January 2014, Brussels, Belgium
CPDP 2014: Reforming data protection: The Global Perspective
http://www.cpdpconferences.org/
3-5 March 2014, San Francisco, California, USA
RightsCon: Silicon Valley
https://www.rightscon.org/
24-25 April 2014, Barcelona, Spain
SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries
http://www.ssn2014.net/
28-29 April 2014, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
OER14: building communities of open practice
http://www.oer14.org/