European Digital Rights wishes all readers a courageous and fruitful new year. Looking back at 2004, we have to conclude fear is a bad source of legislative inspiration. Hopefully in 2005 the balance between security and privacy, between business interests and personal freedom can be maintained by a truly blind Lady Justice.

Thanks to another donation from the Open Society Institute, EDRI-gram will be continued in 2005. EDRI also thanks the formal board-members of DB-NL, the Dutch digital rights movement that ceased to exist in 2001, for donating the remaining funds to EDRI-gram.

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