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Deutsch: Computerkriminalität: EDRi referiert im Innenausschuss des EP

On 4 October 2011, European Digital Rights, as well as EDRi Member Chaos Computer Club (Germany), made presentations to the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament on the new draft Directive on Attacks Against Computer Systems.

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Deutsch: Freiheit statt Angst: Hochsaison für (digitale) Bürgerrechte in Euro...

European policy making has long been blind to the digital environment, ignoring the potentials of the Internet and the positive impact of the free flow of information in society.

Over the last 10 years, an increasing number of surveillance measures have restricted civil liberties and have promoted fear rather than freedom.

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Deutsch: EP-Studie zum "Verbraucherverhalten im digitalen Umfeld"

The European Parliament (EP) has published a study on "Consumer Behaviour in a Digital environment" that it commissioned from London School of Economics (LSE). The study involved a limited stakeholder consultation, which included an extensive exchange of views with EDRi and also looked at existing literature and market developments.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Abhörskandale und Selbstregulierung

The self-regulatory authority for the British press, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), has itself become one of the victims of the "phone hacking" scandal, as self-regulation failed to not alone prevent but even identify problems now believed to be endemic among UK newspapers.

Phone hacking - guessing or brute-force attacking voicemail accounts to access messages - is a criminal offence in the UK.

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Deutsch: Serie: Privatisierung der Online-Strafverfolgung – Teil E

In a bizarrely designed document, looking like a mix between a wedding invitation and an accident in a blue ink factory, leading online retailers Amazon, eBay and Priceminister have sold out the interests of their consumers in a "memorandum of understanding" with a range of luxury goods and copyright groups.

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Deutsch: Serie: Privatisierung der Online-Strafverfolgung – Teil D

How does it happen that an industry or a sector of industry signs up "voluntarily" to arbitrarily punish their consumers and to restrict freedom of speech?

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Deutsch: Serie: Privatisierung der Online Strafverfolgung – Teil B

Much of the policy with regard to "self-regulation" in the context of illegal online content is developed on the basis that anything that industry can do to help fight crime is automatically a good thing. The assumption is that, however distasteful it is that private companies should be regulating and enforcing the law in the online world, it is better that "somebody" is doing "something".

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Deutsch: Serie: Privatisierung der Online Strafverfolgung – Teil A

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the development of processes for cajoling, obliging or coercing online economic operators to police the Internet. This first article examines the scale of this trend.

Most western democracies either actively or passively recognise that they are based on the "rule of law" and protection of fundamental rights is normally provided within this framework.

In the EU, for example, the rule of law is affirmed four times in the Treaty on European Union.