An ICANN meeting will be held in Prague between 24-29 June 2012, where issues and topics impacting users, consumers and registrants, like whois access and the extension of domain space with ongoing new gTLD program, will be discussed. As a reminder, ICANN is an Internet governing body managing mainly IP addressing and domain names and which is implementing a multi-stakeholder model, bottom-up and consensus-based policy-making process .

ICANN as an organization still needs important improvements on accountability, transparency and public interest aspects and also in the involvement of the civil society, activists and academics.

With the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) to take place during 3-14 December 2012 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) 2012 having taken place in Geneva between 14-18 May 2012, a large group of human rights advocates, freedom of expression groups, academics and organisations of the civil society all over the world, including EDRi, drafted a letter raising several concerns related to the preparation process.

The letter of 17 May 2012, addressed to WCIT organiser, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Council Working Group to Prepare for the WCIT-12 and to ITU member states, is asking for more transparency and expresses the wish of the signatories to participate in the preparation p

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Deutsch: EDRi unterstützt die Proteste gegen US-Netzsperrengesetze

EDRi supports today's black-out campaign against SOPA and PIPA and endorses the positions of the human rights international community in criticizing the two draft normative acts from US.

Human rights community speaks out on PROTECT IP Act (16.01.2012)
https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/human-rights-comm...

Human rights community against SOPA (15.11.2011)
http://www.edri.org/files/sopa_civilsociety_15Nov_2011.pdf

More details on the blackout campaign https://ww

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Deutsch: ACTA: Niederländisches Parlament lehnt geheime Verhandlungen ab

ACTA is creating quite some noise, not only internationally but also domestically. National Parliaments, including the Dutch Parliament, will have to decide whether they will approve ACTA or not.

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Deutsch: 33. Internationale Datenschutz Konferenz in Mexico City

The 33rd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners was held in Mexico City, on 2-3 November 2011, hosted by IFAI (The Mexican Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection). This year theme, "Privacy, the Global Age", showed the clear willing of the organizers to make it a direct follow-up to the 31st Conference held in Madrid and its adopted resolution on global standards.

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Deutsch: 2011 Public Voice Konferenz der Zivilgesellschaft: "Privacy is Fr...

The Public Voice meeting that took place on 31 October 2011 in Mexico City began with a discussion of the 2009 Madrid declarations (both those from DPAs and civil society). Most participants felt there had been little progress towards implementation or acceptance by governments.

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Deutsch: US-Gericht verlangt weltweiten Zugriff auf Twitter Benutzerdaten

A US judge decided on 10 November 2011 that Twitter had to release to the US authorities data on the Twitter accounts of people involved in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange case investigated by the US Justice Department. The Twitter accounts in question belong to Icelandic MP and former WikiLeaks volunteer Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Seattle-based WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum and Dutch XS4ALL Internet provider co-founder Rop Gonggrijp. The judge's ruling is a response to the appeal made by the three twitte

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Partner unterzeichnen ACTA, zahlreiche Dokumente noch imme...

Last weekend, some of the EU's ACTA "partners" started the process of acceding to the Agreement (US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Japan and Morocco). Due to the controversial nature of the Agreement, this is happening in different legal processes and at different speeds in different countries.