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Thursday, September 25, 2014

EDRi-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe

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EDRi-gram

biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe

Number 12.18, 24 September 2014

Read online: http://edri.org/edri-gram/12-18/

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Contents
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1. Risk-based approach to data protection: risky for fundamental rights
2. Romania: Mandatory prepaid SIM registration ruled unconstitutional
3. France adopts anti-terror law eroding civil liberties
4. The Turkish government tightens its grip over the Internet
5. Panoptykon called on MEPs to stop mass surveillance
6. FNF 2014: Tackling surveillance, censorship, net discrimination
7. ENDitorial: Italian IP Enforcement position: the essence of insanity?
8. Recommended Action
9. Recommended Reading
10. Agenda
11. About

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1. Risk-based approach to data protection: risky for fundamental rights
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On 18 September an EU Council document related to the draft EU data
protection regulation was published. The document summarises the
positions of Member States that have given their views on a so-called
“risk-based approach to data protection”, within the context of the (so
far) 30-month negotiations on a review of  European data protection
legislation. Reading the document, the first question that comes to mind
is: Is this going to make the data protection standards any better? The
answer is, broadly speaking... no.

Risk assessment is "the determination of quantitative or qualitative
value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognised threat".
The main problem with a risk assessment in this context is the fact that
personal privacy is a fundamental right. Measuring it with risk
assessment methodology leads to an awkward misconception about what this
fundamental right actually represents; The data controller cannot know
about the context and dangers for individual people. Also the view that
children's personal data is somewhat more sensitive than  their parents'
is incoherent. The fundamental rights of one part of the society cannot
be more fundamental than the fundamental rights of another part of the
society. There is strictly no difference between the  two, neither from
the human rights perspective nor from a practical perspective.

Such assessments make a lot of sense in technical environments where
operators deals with their own operational risks, but it is entirely
wrong to assume that there is an easy way for assessing third party risk
processing operations, especially if its about a narrow, fundamental
human right. This is what the risk-based approach is all about -
identifying "specific risks", assessing and categorising the rights of
third parties and making decisions based on this.

When it comes to assessment, the exposure of large data sets generates a
higher degree of public attention. However, this does not necessarily
mean they lead to a more significant threat. The reality of IT shows
that systems with a small set of very specific data are not less
valuable nor less important for privacy concerns.

Apart from this misconception, it's shocking to see the massive amount
of comments and subtle, detrimental changes that are being proposed by
the German delegation, which made as many comments as all of the other
Member States put together. These comments and changes will make future
negotiations in the trialogue (negotiations between Commission,
Parliament and Council) a lot more complicated. Indeed, rather than
being a constructive intervention, the German comments look like an
effort to stall the progress of what was gained over the last months by
bringing up new ideas which will most probably have the effect of
delaying and weakening the reform.

Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council
on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of
personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data
Protection Regulation) - Risk based approach (02.09.2014)
http://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/srv?l=EN&f=ST%2012267%202014%20REV%202

Wikipedia: Risk assessment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_assessment

(Contribution by fukami, EDRi member Chaos Computer Club, Germany)

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2. Romania: Mandatory prepaid SIM registration ruled unconstitutional
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The Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) ruled on 16 September 2014 that
a law that required the mandatory registration of all prepaid SIM cards
and free WiFi users, is unconstitutional, as a whole.

The Court reviewed the law as a result of the Romanian Ombudsman’s
objection concerning its possible unconstitutionality. Several human
rights NGOs asked the Ombudsman in July 2014 to notify the CCR regarding
the law which had been recently adopted, and to ask the Court to rule on
the law’s constitutionality before its promulgation by the President.

Also, on 15 September 2014, a Romanian association for the defence of
human rights APADOR-CH and EDRi member ApTI submitted an amicus curiae
requesting the CCR to rule the law unconstitutional, as it breaches the
right to privacy.

The Court ruled that “the law’s provisions are not precise and
predictable, and the manner in which the necessary data regarding the
registration of prepaid SIM cards and WiFi hotspot users is retained and
stored does not provide sufficient means to guarantee the necessary
efficient protections for these personal data against abuse or any other
kind of unlawful access to and use of these data.” The full
argumentation on this case will be published in approximately one month
in the Official Journal.

This is the second important ruling of the CCR on privacy issues, after
its decision from 8 July 2014 that declared the second data retention
law unconstitutional.

The decisions triggered quick and aggressive reactions in the media from
the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), Romanian Ministry of Internal
Affairs, and politicians from the Committees supervising the SRI
activity, all claiming that the CCR decisions have made a “legal vacuum”
and now the terrorists will flood Romania to buy prepaid SIM cards.

In an unprecedented move, the CCR issued a press release
counterattacking those arguments and reiterating the legal arguments
used in their decisions. The SRI came back the following day with a
press release with more allegations that in these circumstances the
institution may not defend the national security and that now anonymity
is allowed in communications.

But one should not be fooled by fooled by the smoke, as all this
“security-forces-alleged-drama” has some real interests behind it.

First, as the full argumentation behind the unconstitutionality of the
prepaid law was not published yet, it is meant to pressure the CCR to
water down the decision, so that another law could be initiated.

Secondly, the security institutions in Romania want to push a new data
retention law and another attempt (it would be the fifth one now) for
mandatory prepaid SIM cards as quick as possible.

Thirdly, all this talk hides the interests on another draft law - on
cybersecurity - that was quietly adopted by the Chamber of Deputies and
received just two days prior to the debate in the Senate (which is the
decisive chamber for this law). As reported earlier in EDRi-gram, that
law will give the right for SRI and other nine public institutions to
have access to the computer data held by those companies, at a simple
“motivated request” from these institutions in their own attributions.

Romania: The law mandating the registration of prepaid SIM cards has
been ruled unconstitutional (19.09.2014)
http://thesponge.eu/index.php?idT=4&idC=5&idRec=1115&recType=story

SRI Press release on the legal vaccum created by the CCR decisions (only
in Romanian, 20.09.2014)
http://www.sri.ro/comunicat-de-presa-20-09-2014-17-06.html

CCR press release on the decision on law on the pre-pay cards (only in
Romanian, 16.09.2014)
http://www.ccr.ro/noutati/COMUNICAT-DE-PRES-103

CCR press release answering the SRI allegations (only in Romanian,
18.09.2014)
http://www.ccr.ro/noutati/COMUNICAT-DE-PRES-106

EDRi-gram: Romania: No communication without registration (02.07.2014)
http://edri.org/romania-no-communication-without-registration/

ApTI: Amicus Curiae to the CCR (only in Romanian, 15.09.2014)
http://apti.ro/interventie-la-curtea-constitutionala-impotriva-inregistrarii-car
telelor-prepay


(Contribution by Bogdan Manolea, EDRi-member ApTI, Romania)

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3. France adopts anti-terror law eroding civil liberties
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On 18 September 2014, the near empty French National Assembly adopted
the "law strengthening the provision relating to the fight against
terrorism". In an atmosphere marked by "apocalyptic" anxiety and
speeches on the terrorist threat, particularly within the Internet,
minister Bernard Cazeneuve and rapporteur Sébastien Pietrasanta wore
down all opposition, blocking any further reflection on the serious
breaches of the rule of law that are brought on by this bill.

The evaluation of the proposal turned into a game of “who can propose
the most extreme measures” between Minister Bernard Cazeneuve,
rapporteur Pietrasanta and representatives from across the political
spectrum.

Despite criticism on both the content and form of the law increasing
(including from the media usually unwilling to raise their voices on
such issues), many Parliamentarians were ready to give up fundamental
freedoms in the name of the fight against terrorism.

The most discussed articles at the Chamber had already been identified
as problematic early on by the French civil rights organisation La
Quadrature du Net. These include:
- Travel restrictions, control of freedom of movement via bans on
leaving the country (Article 1);
- Removal of the concept of "apologie du terrorisme" from the French
press law of 1881 (Article 4);
- Creation of an individual corporate terrorist offence and creation of
an offence of regularly visiting terrorist websites (Article 5);
- Administrative blocking of Internet websites that promote terrorism
(Article 9).

During the examination of the text, Bernard Cazeneuve evaded difficult
questions, taking refuge in half-truths. For instance, he referred to
the intervention of the administrative judge in the blocking process and
suggested that he or she would systematically intervene as a mediator -
while the text of the law foresees no such thing. Through denigration of
his opponents and against the press that raised concerns about the law,
he showed that his objective was mainly to pass ad hoc legislation to
ease red tape for the police, rather than producing a proper law.

In order to engage citizens and volunteers to take part in the debate
before the vote, to raise awareness and to influence the
parliamentarians, La Quadrature du Net created a website
"presumes-terroristes.fr" (presumed terrorists) which provides a
thorough analysis of the law, its consequences and dangers. Other
associations, such as Reporters Without Borders and the Human Rights
League, joined the campaign.

The Senate will consider the text in the coming weeks. Even if the
dangers of this law caught the attention of civil right associations
already several months ago, media and press attention came very late. La
Quadrature du Net calls on citizens to contact their Senators to raise
awareness as early as possible about the dangers of this law, and
continues to raise awareness, as it is crucial for the legislative
process and could profoundly change the text during its reading at the
Senate.

France's new anti-terror bill: All presumed terrorist until proven
guilty? (22.06.2014)
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/frances-new-anti-terror-bill-all-presumed-terrori
st-until-proven-guilty

“Presumes-terroristes.fr” (presumed terrorists)
https://presumes-terroristes.fr/

Terrorism: a dangerous bill (15.09.2014)
http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2014/09/15/terrorisme-un-projet-de-l
oi-dangereux_4487639_3218.html

(Contribution by Christopher Talib, La Quadrature du Net)

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4. The Turkish government tightens its grip over the Internet
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On 8 September 2014, the Turkish parliament passed an  amendment to the
 already draconian Internet law. The amendment allows the Turkish
Telecommunication Authority (TIB) to block (without a court order) any
website that appears to threaten "national security or public order”.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are required to execute the blocking
order of the TIB within four hours. This enables the government to block
content quickly and without due process of law.

In addition to  allowing blocking of websites without a court ruling,
the law also obliges ISPs to store all data on web users' activities,
such as browsing history, for two years, and make it available to the
authorities upon request, without a court order.

The new law, as well as other recent actions of the Turkish government,
have raised concerns about freedom of speech in the country. The large
majority of the traditional mainstream media is either directly or
indirectly under the government control, and the Internet remains one of
the few channels for free speech in Turkey, but the government is
continuously increasing the measures to control also the Internet.

During the last few years, the Turkish government has blocked sites
which broadcast  recordings that appear to indicate corruption of
government officials and appear to show dubious relationships with the
fundamentalist organisations in Syria and Iraq. In spring 2014, social
media platform Twitter and a video-sharing website YouTube remained
blocked for several weeks. "National security and maintaining public
order" were used as justifications also to this blocking.

Turkey becoming intelligence state with new Internet law (09.09.2014)
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_turkey-becoming-intelligence-state-with-new-
internet-law_358245.html

Turkey tightens Internet controls, weeks into new government (09.09.2014)
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/09/turkey-internet-idINKBN0H41AJ20140909

Turkey tightens grip over the internet (09.09.2014)
http://online.wsj.com/articles/turkey-tightens-grip-over-the-internet-1410279325

Turkey: Internet freedom, rights in sharp decline (02.09.2014)
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/02/turkey-internet-freedom-rights-sharp-decline

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4. The Turkish government tightens its grip over the Internet
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On 8 September 2014, the Turkish parliament passed an  amendment to the
 already draconian Internet law. The amendment allows the Turkish
Telecommunication Authority (TIB) to block (without a court order) any
website that appears to threaten "national security or public order”.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are required to execute the blocking
order of the TIB within four hours. This enables the government to block
content quickly and without due process of law.

In addition to  allowing blocking of websites without a court ruling,
the law also obliges ISPs to store all data on web users' activities,
such as browsing history, for two years, and make it available to the
authorities upon request, without a court order.

The new law, as well as other recent actions of the Turkish government,
have raised concerns about freedom of speech in the country. The large
majority of the traditional mainstream media is either directly or
indirectly under the government control, and the Internet remains one of
the few channels for free speech in Turkey, but the government is
continuously increasing the measures to control also the Internet.

During the last few years, the Turkish government has blocked sites
which broadcast  recordings that appear to indicate corruption of
government officials and appear to show dubious relationships with the
fundamentalist organisations in Syria and Iraq. In spring 2014, social
media platform Twitter and a video-sharing website YouTube remained
blocked for several weeks. "National security and maintaining public
order" were used as justifications also to this blocking.

Turkey becoming intelligence state with new Internet law (09.09.2014)
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_turkey-becoming-intelligence-state-with-new-
internet-law_358245.html

Turkey tightens Internet controls, weeks into new government (09.09.2014)
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/09/turkey-internet-idINKBN0H41AJ20140909

Turkey tightens grip over the internet (09.09.2014)
http://online.wsj.com/articles/turkey-tightens-grip-over-the-internet-1410279325

Turkey: Internet freedom, rights in sharp decline (02.09.2014)
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/02/turkey-internet-freedom-rights-sharp-decline

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5. Panoptykon called on MEPs to stop mass surveillance
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On 11 September 2014 digital right activists and advocates around the
world commemorated the anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks on the WTC
as the Freedom not Fear Day. It reminded decision makers and society as
a whole that “absolute security” is a fallacy that can never be
achieved, even in return for giving up all citizens’ rights and
freedoms. EDRi member Panoptykon Foundation used this opportunity to
remind the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) about their
promises to end the mass surveillance.

On 12 March 2014, after a series of public statements made by
politicians, activist and experts (including Edward Snowden), the
European Parliament adopted strong resolution against mass surveillance,
and MEPs called both Member States and European institutions to take
political measures and adopt stronger legal guarantees in order to end
mass surveillance programmes carried out by European and American
agencies. Now that  the summer holidays are over and the newly elected
MEPs have moved to Brussels, it’s time for the European Parliament to
follow up on recommendations adopted in the previous term. Panoptykon
came up with a list of concrete steps that could be taken by Members of
the European Parliament and called Polish representatives to get active.

The list of recommended actions that MEPs found in their mail boxes on
11 September included:
1. Exerting pressure on the Council and national governments to speed up
the reform of the data protection regime.
2. Ensuring that the “umbrella agreement” between the EU and the US on
data protection for law enforcement purposes does not allow broad
national security exemption.
3. Pressing for constant evaluation of the Safe Harbour, PNR and SWIFT
agreements in order to find out whether data protection safeguards are
respected in practice.
4. Including mass surveillance as an issue in the hearings of the
candidates for new Commissioners.
5. Continuation of the LIBE committee investigative work on the basis of
new disclosures.

Freedom not Fear - 11 September we celebrate the International Day of
opposition to surveillance (only in Polish, 07.09.2010)
http://panoptykon.org/wiadomosc/wolnosc-nie-strach-11-wrzesnia-obchodzimy-miedzy
narodowy-dzien-sprzeciwu-wobec-inwigilacji

European Parliament: there is no consensus on mass surveillance, you
need to increase oversight of special services (only in Polish, 12.03.2014)
http://panoptykon.org/wiadomosc/parlament-europejski-nie-ma-zgody-na-masowa-inwi
gilacje-trzeba-zwiekszyc-nadzor-nad-sluzba

Appeal to the European Parliament: Time to fulfill your promises and
stop mass surveillance! (only in Polish, 10.09.2014)
http://panoptykon.org/wiadomosc/apel-do-parlamentu-europejskiego-czas-spelnic-ob
ietnice-i-zatrzymac-masowa-inwigilacje

(Contribution by Katarzyna Szymielewicz and Anna Obem, EDRi member
Fundacja Panoptykon, Poland)

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6. FNF 2014: Tackling surveillance, censorship, net discrimination
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Between 26 and 29 September, the annual Freedom not Fear (FNF)
conference and barcamp will take place in Brussels. As every year, the
action days are challenging the false dichotomy that better security
comes at a price: the abandonment of our privacy rights.

On Friday evening, the event will be kicked off with a keynote speech by
Simon Davies, publisher of the Privacy Surgeon and founder of Privacy
International, who recently released the first global analysis of the
impact of the Snowden revelations. He will be joined by Paul Nemitz,
Director at DG Justice of the European Commission, for a discussion of
the data protection reform and the future of the EU-US umbrella and Safe
Harbor agreements.

During the weekend, there will be speakers and workshops on a wide range
of topics including Glyn Moody on the Trans-Atlantic Trade Agreement
(TTIP/TAFTA) and Jillian York on surveillance. The barcamp style event
will allow participants to propose additional ad hoc presentations or
workshops in an open environment. On Sunday evening, there will be a
screening of the documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron
Swartz”.

On Monday, participants of the conference will have the possibility to
experience EU policy-making first-hand with a visit of the European
Parliament. On that day, the Parliament will be very busy with the first
hearings of the “Juncker team” and a meeting of the Civil Liberties,
Justice and Home Affairs committee.

Supporters of this year’s Freedom not Fear are, among many others,
European Digital Rights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Digitale
Gesellschaft, Access, NURPA, digitalcourage...
Freedom not Fear
http://www.freedomnotfear.org/

Brussels privacy advocates summit to tackle surveillance, censorship,
net discrimination
http://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FNF14_posterA4.pdf

Freedom Not Fear 2014, Schedule
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2014/Schedule

A crisis of accountability - A global analysis of the impact of the
Snowden revelations (10.06.2014)
http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Snowden-final-repo
rt-for-publication.pdf

New Commission: how MEPs will scrutinise the candidate commissioners
(15.09.2014)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140915STO62302/html/Ne
w-Commission-how-MEPs-will-scrutinise-the-candidate-commissioners

Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/libe/home.html

(Contribution by Kirsten Fiedler, EDRi)

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7. ENDitorial: Italian IP Enforcement position: the essence of insanity?
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On 11 September, the Italian Presidency of the European Union submitted
a discussion paper to the Council (see link below). The paper explains
that, following the “review of Directive 2004/48/EC”, the controversial,
 so-called “Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive” (IPRED)
and the public consultation, it is “clear that the current legislative
framework is not necessarily fit for purpose”. This is not an
unreasonable assessment. It is also not surprising that the Italian
Presidency mistakenly believes that there was a review of the Directive,
bearing in mind the volume of unproductive European Commission activity
(two “roadmaps, one conference, two consultations and an implementation
report) that there has been on the topic. Unless the “review” they are
referring to is the implementation report which, curiously enough, does
not contain the word “review”.

However, having established that the current legislative framework is
not fit for purpose, the best thing that the Presidency can think of
proposing is to expand and deepen the failed, not fit for purpose
enforcement measures that are currently in force. The Italians
apparently hope that, if they do the same thing over and over again,
different results will be produced.

The document calls for “clarity” on the retention of personal data by
intermediaries and the use of such data to identify infringers. They
propose this even though the European Court of Justice has ruled that
wide-scale retention of personal data for law enforcement purposes, even
for serious crime, is contrary to the primary law of the European Union.
In order to avoid abuses (that the Italian document helpfully recognises
as a real possibility), it proposes that enforcement efforts focus on
“commercial scale infringements”. It does this, in apparent ignorance of
the fact that the European Commission, in one of its roadmaps for a
review of the Directive, indicated that a clearer definition of
“commercial scale” is needed in order to avoid individual consumers
being unfairly targeted.

Rather than seeking to reform the legal framework, which it describes as
not “necessarily” fit for purpose, rather than reforming the definition
of “commercial scale”, the Italian Presidency suggests a directionless
reflection on the possibility of imposing policing duties on undefined
Internet intermediaries. It foresees obligations requiring them to
somehow “know” their customers in order to... well, they don't actually
tell us.

In the same vein, the Italian Presidency implicitly supports expanding
the range of Internet intermediaries on which injunctions can be
imposed. It also supports expanding the range of injunctions that can be
imposed and expanding the geographic area covered by them - creating the
possibility of cross-border or pan-European injunctions. Unsurprisingly,
the document makes no reference whatsoever to any research indicting
that such measures would be necessary or proportionate.

Mysteriously, bearing in mind that the currently enforced version of the
Directive permits orders “to pay the rightholder damages appropriate to
the actual prejudice suffered by him”, the Italian Presidency suggests
that action be taken to “ensure that damages awarded are sufficient to
cover the prejudice suffered”. This suggests that European courts are
not competent enough to work out what appropriate damages might be,
under the current legal framework - with, again, no hint of any evidence
to back up this position.

In fairness to the Italian Presidency, the incoherence, incompetence and
ineptitude of  the document echos the failings of the Commission's
recently published Communication on IP Enforcement. Perhaps the Italian
Presidency is only guilty of passing off a European Commission document
written as its own - in the name of “intellectual property”.

Enforcement of intellectual property rights - Presidency paper (11.09.2014)
http://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/srv?l=EN&f=ST%2013076%202014%20INIT

Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29
April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (02.06.2004)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32004L0048R%2801%29

Report: Application of Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of
intellectual property rights (22.12.2010)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52010DC0779&from=E
N

Consultation on the Commission Report on the enforcement of intellectual
property rights (2011)
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2011/intellectual_property_rig
hts_en.htm

Proposal for a revision of the Directive on the enforcement of
intellectual property rights (2011)
http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/impact/planned_ia/docs/2011_markt_006_revie
w_enforcement_directive_ipr_en.pdf

Commission Communication on civil enforcement of IP within the Internal
Market (2013)
http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/impact/planned_ia/docs/2013_markt_036_civil
_enforcement_ip_en.pdf

European Commission Communication: Towards a renewed consensus on the
enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: An EU Action Plan (2014)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52014DC0392

European Commission IP Enforcement page: The Directive on the
enforcement of intellectual property rights
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/iprenforcement/directive/index_en.htm

(Contribution by Joe McNamee, EDRi)

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8. Recommended Action
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Promote open access worldwide!
Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student is facing up to eight years in
prison for posting research results online. Academic research should be
free to access and available under an open license that would legally
enable the kind of sharing that is so crucial for enabling scientific
progress.
https://act.eff.org/action/let-s-stand-together-to-promote-open-access-worldwide

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9. Recommended Reading
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Classified Information: A review of current legislation across 15
countries & the EU
http://www.ti-defence.org/publications/dsp-pubs/304-classified-information.html

The future of the Internet - Innovation and investment in IP interconnection
http://www.adlittle.com/downloads/tx_adlreports/ADL_LibertyGlobal_2014_FutureOfT
heInternet.pdf

Analysis: TTIP and TiSA: big pressure to trade away privacy
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-257-ttip-ralf-bendrath.pdf

French crime database system in breach of Convention for storing
information on individuals against whom proceedings have been dropped
(18.09.2014)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2014/sep/echr-france-judgment-brunet-v-France-sto
rage-of-information-on-crime-database.pdf

Report: On the joint review of the implementation of the Agreement
between the European Union and the United States of America on the
processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European
Union to the United States for the purposes of the Terrorist Finance
Tracking Program (11.08.2014)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2014/sep/eu-com-tftp-jt-rep-eu-usa-com-513-14.pdf

EU Data Protection Law: The Review of Directive 95/46/EC and the
Proposed General Data Protection Regulation
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2014/sep/eu-2014-09-edps-data-protection-article.
pdf

"ACTION SEE" Network established - requiring transparency and
accountability from the governments (17.09.2014)
http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/en/news/macedonia/2692-formirana-mrezata-action-
see-se-bara-transparentnost-i-odgovornost-od-vlastite

Tor Challenge Inspires 1,635 Tor Relays (19.09.2014)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/tor-challenge-inspires-1635-tor-relays

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10. Agenda
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25 September, Brussels, Belgium
Apero on the Future of the Internet - FNF pre-event
https://s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.net/0f0e19dc3f25715002_07m6b2szn.pdf?

26 September 2014, Berlin, Germany
IPEN Workshop: Engineering Privacy into Internet Services and Applications
https://secure.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/edps/EDPS/IPEN

26-29 September 2014, Brussels, Belgium
Freedom not Fear 2014
http://www.freedomnotfear.org/

3 October 2014, Brussels, Belgium
Exchange of best practices on transparency of media ownership
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/exchange-best-practices-transparency
-media-ownership

9-10 October 2014, Florence, Italy
ICT Proposers' Day
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-proposers-day-9-10-october-2014

25 October 2014, Vienna, Austria
Keine Macht Spionen - Big Brother Awards 2014
http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/2014/

6-7 November, Warsaw, Poland
The International CopyCamp Conference 2014
http://copycamp.pl/en/

2-3 December 2014, Brussels, Belgium
EUhackathon
http://www.2014.euhackathon.eu/

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