Lawless, unproven filtering and blocking of content as “best practice”
On Monday of next week (29 October, 2012), the European Union and the United States will have a “summit” (draft agenda) on “Exchange of Best Practices for Child Protection Online”. In the course of...
View ArticleIE Domain Registry confirms hijacking of the DNS nameservers
This article is also available in: Deutsch: IE Domain Registry bestätigt Angriff auf DNS Nameserver On 9 October 2012, those who tried to visit Google.ie and Yahoo.ie were sent to an Indonesian...
View ArticleInternational coalition calls for withdrawal of Dutch hacking plans
This article is also available in: Deutsch: Niederlande: Internationale Koalition fordert Rücknahme der Hacking-P... An international coalition of more than 40 civil rights organizations and security...
View ArticleExport Controls for Digital Weapons
This article is also available in: Deutsch: Exportbeschränkungen für digitale Waffen While the European Governments often praise the positive role the Internet can have on the society in helping...
View ArticleCommission's own internal review condemned CleanIT's incoherence and cost
The CleanIT project has received a huge amount of criticism from outside of the EU institutions. But imagine if the Commission had been alerted to the incoherence of the planned project. Imagine if,...
View ArticleMajor data leak at the Belgium railway company
This article is also available in: Deutsch: Schwere Datenpanne bei der belgischen Bahn At the end of December 2012, the personal data of more than one million customers of the Belgian train company...
View ArticleENDitorial: Questions on the draft Directive on Cybersecurity Strategy
This article is also available in: Deutsch: ENDitorial: Fragen zum Entwurf für eine Strategie und eine Richtlinie... A draft of the already announced EU Directive on Cybersecurity Strategy that is...
View ArticleHuman rights orgs ask OECD to investigate surveillance companies
This article is also available in: Deutsch: Überwachungsfirmen: Menschenrechtsorganisationen fordern OECD-Untersu... In the beginning of February 2013 several human rights organisations, including...
View ArticleENDitorial: Germany sees a "septimana horribilis" in Net politics
This article is also available in: Deutsch: ENDitorial: Eine Woche des Schreckens für die deutsche Netzpolitik In Germany, political developments in the last week have been perceived as a frustrating...
View ArticleDutch police wants to hack their citizens' devices
This article is also available in: Deutsch: Niederlande: Polizei will die Geräte ihrer Bürger hacken The police should be allowed to hack into mobile phones and computers, even when these are located...
View ArticleBelgium ISP under cyberattack by British intelligence
Edward Snowden’s opened Pandora box keeps revealing extended eavesdropping of intelligence services. read more
View ArticleFBI was controlling servers located in France
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...
View ArticleHas Switzerland become a center of spy technology exports?
On 26 September 2013, Privacy International sent a letter to Ueli Maurer, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence showing concern regarding the many companies asking for licenses to export...
View ArticleENDitorial: How antivirus vendors handle state-sponsored malware
Last month, an international coalition of civil rights organizations and academic experts asked antivirus software vendors how they handled state-sponsored malware. Some of them already responded and...
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