============================================================ EDRi-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 8.18, 22 September 2010 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. Freedom not Fear 2010 - Stop Surveillance Mania! 2. Dutch internet community protests against censorship proposal 3. European Commission's strategy for Data Protection Directive 4. Blocking websites approved by the French Senate 5. Commissioner Malmstrvm sets out her agenda to the European Parliament 6. Swiss court rules that IP address collecting software is illegal 7. Google's Street View will not resume its activities in the Czech Republic 8. FSFE insists on promoting free PDF readers 9. ENDitorial: Internet blocking in ten weeks and counting 10. Recommended Reading 11. Agenda 12. About ============================================================ 1. Freedom not Fear 2010 - Stop Surveillance Mania! ============================================================ For the fourth consecutive time, this year the International Action Day took place on 11 September under the motto "Freedom not Fear 2010 - Stop Surveillance Mania". The events that took place in several European towns such as Berlin, Stockholm, Warsaw, Helsinki, Paris, Venice, Vienna and Luxembourg were organised and supported by a coalition of more than 150 organisations, including political parties, professional associations, trade unions and freedom activists. What were the organisers asking for? Mainly, a cutback on surveillance measures including data retention laws and the collection of biometric data, "no European wide standardized state run collection of information", no data exchange with the USA without proper data protection laws, no blank registration of PNR data, "no systematic surveillance of financial transactions data or similar mass data analysis in the EU (SWIFT)" and no secret searches of online or offline PC systems. In Berlin at the largest action of the Freedom not Fear 2010, about 7500 people demonstrated for better data protection and less intrusion on privacy. One of the main concerns expressed was related to the centralization of health, financial, telecommunications and employment data. The demonstrators were carrying banners such as "Freedom is dying with security", "I have something to hide: my privacy" or "my data belongs to me". During the rally, Frank Bsirske, head of the trade union Verdi, called for the cancellation of the ELENA database introduced in Germany at the beginning of 2010 that covers employee income information. He said that during the last 80 years in Europea many cases have showed that data collection could be used for "insane purposes." He also called for the cancellation of data retention laws. Although in Germany the Constitutional Court decided against data retention in March 2010, Rosemarie Will, National Chairman of the Humanist Union stated during the rally that the victory was not complete as the court left an open back door for a come-back of the law. The court did not annul the legislation but only suspended it asking for its modification in order to ensure stricter and safer conditions for the storage and use of the collected data. Thilo Weichert, state data protection representative from Schleswig-Holstein, expressed his opinion that the authorities should act more professionally when pursuing criminals using the internet. "The population needs freedom of information and opinion, not total control," he said. The demonstrators also criticized systems, such as the SWIFT agreement or PNR systems, that allow the transfer of personal and bank data to the US authorities without proper data protection measures. Protestors take to the street to call for better data protection (12.09.2010) http://www.dw-world.de:80/dw/article/0,,5996875,00.html Thousands in Germany rally for data privacy - PressTV (11.09.2010) http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=GCZt-OyfDOQ Large rally on Potsdamer Platz closes successful demonstration (11.09.2010) http://blog.freiheitstattangst.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/press-release-6-... Colourful rally moves through the centre of the German capital (11.09.2010) http://blog.freiheitstattangst.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/press-release-5-... Demonstration "freedom instead of fear!" (15.09.2010) http://blog.freiheitstattangst.de/2010/09/das-war-fsa10-2/ Freedom not Fear 2010 in Poland (only in Polish, 9.09.2010) http://www.panoptykon.org/component/content/article/46-fundacja-panoptykon-n... EDRi-gram: German Federal Constitutional Court rejects data retention law (10.03.2010) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.5/german-decision-data-retention-uncons... ============================================================ 2. Dutch internet community protests against censorship proposal ============================================================ Dutch civil society, companies, academics and bloggers sent a letter on 15 September 2010 to the Dutch Minister of Justice regarding a recently launched legislative proposal. According to the writers, the proposal could lead to censorship by the government. The organizations request the change of the proposal in order to preserve the freedom of press and internet. The draft proposal of Dutch Minister of Justice Hirsch Ballin has far-reaching consequences for the freedom of Dutch internet users. For example, parts of websites but also personal pages on Facebook and Hyves could, on the basis of this proposal, be shut down without a prior decision by a court. Currently, a prior judicial ruling is required. In addition, the proposal would, in short, prohibit the publication of non-public information and would criminalize the secret recording of your conversations. In the letter, the minister is requested to amend the proposal on three points. Firstly, deleting part of a website should be applied only after a prior decision by a court. Secondly, the prohibition on the publication of non-public information should be to re-evaluate in its entirety. Finally, the minister is requested to clarify the prohibition on recording conversations. The letter is an initiative of EDRi-member Bits of Freedom and was signed by nineteen civil society organisations, twenty experts from the academic world, in addition to bloggers and internet experts. The letter (only in Dutch, 15.09.2010) https://www.bof.nl/live/wp-content/uploads/brandbrief.pdf Press release: Dutch Internet community protests against state censorship (only in Dutch, 15.09.2010) https://www.bof.nl/2010/09/15/persbericht-nederlandse-internetgemeenschap-pr... (Contribution by Ot van Daalen - EDRi-member Bits of Freedom - Netherlands) ============================================================ 3. European Commission's strategy for Data Protection Directive ============================================================ During the Conference organised on 16 September 2010 by the Lisbon Council Brussels on "Unleashing the digital single market", Vivane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission and Commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, announced, among other things, she would make a proposal for the future revision of the present Data Protection Directive. In her speech, Mrs. Reding reinforced her beliefs expressed in October 2009 that Europe needed a Digital Single Market that would be beneficial for consumers and businesses alike and vowed to use EU justice policy to strengthen it. The commissioner identified two main tools that may help in solving the problems of the digital economy: The Consumer Rights and Data Protection Directives. A strong data protection legislation would also be an important element in boosting business and consumer confidence "to ensure consumers of surfing and shopping online without worrying about the safety of their personal information." Therefore, the commissioner announced that an outline for the revision of the present Data Protection Directive would be presented by the Commission in October 2010 in order to "strengthen individuals' rights and enhance the Internal Market dimension of data protection." The revision would include a more strict application of transparency for a "full, easily accessible and easy to understand information on how personal data is being processed." The collection of personal data should have a legitimate purpose and not exceed the strictly necessary data. "Data should be collected and processed only under informed consent of a person to whom they relate." One measure intended by the Commission is that of enhancing the responsibility of the data controllers to be able to establish "effective mechanisms to ensure compliance with data protection rules." Reding also expressed again the idea that as the Internet is a global tool, the data transferred through it should be protected and expressed the intention to improve the current procedures for international data transfers. In order to encourage new technologies in an environment in which consumers know their rights, different solutions could be found such as "privacy by design." "Data protection compliance should be embedded throughout the entire life cycle of technologies and procedures." The Digital Single Market should also be a cyber crime-safe environment. And for this purpose the Commission will propose criminal sanctions against people responsible for cyber attacks. Press Release - Viviane Reding Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship - Doing the Single Market justice - Unleashing the digital single market Conference, organised by the Lisbon Council Brussels (16.09.2010) http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/441&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en EDRi-gram: Reding: EU policy for information society for the next years (7.10.2010) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number7.19/reding-eu-policy-infosoc ============================================================ 4. Blocking websites approved by the French Senate ============================================================ The French Senate adopted on 10 September 2010 the law on known as Loppsi 2 (Original title: loi d'orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sicuriti intirieure). This legislation would give the police the power to upload malware on PCs without the users' knowledge and without any need to explain the action. Another extremely worrying aspect is that the Senate modified the deputies' version in the sense that article 4 of the text stipulates that the blocking of Internet sites with child pornographic content will is no longer be decided by the court but by an administrative authority without the intervention of a judge. If the child pornographic content is manifest, the administrative authority will be able to ask ISPs to block the site address without delay. If that character is not manifest, the administrative authority may notify the legal authority in charge with the interdiction of the access to the mentioned electronic addresses, but is not bound to do so. One partial victory was obtained in relation to video-surveillance by CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) which had asked that the control over the images be given to an independent body and not to an Internal Affairs Ministerial commission. Still, CNIL will have no autonomy in the matter as it will be able to intervene only at the request of the commissions that validates the installation of the video-cameras in public spaces. The text also includes another article that stipulates a punishment of one year imprisonment and 15 000 euro fine for identity theft offences, a very large provision which may lead to punishing the use of pseudonyms or the use of profiles meant to caricature well known characters. The text will still have to go through the National Assembly again in order to be finally adopted by the French Parliament. Loppsi: filtering sites will be decided by the administration (only in French, 13.09.2010) http://www.01net.com/editorial/520854/loppsi-le-filtrage-des-sites-incombera... Freedom on the Net victims of the security debate (only in French, 16.09.2010) http://fr.rsf.org/france-la-liberte-sur-le-net-victime-du-16-09-2010,38373.h... RWF criticises the filtering of the Net stipulated by Loppsi 2 (only in French, 16.09.2010) http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2010/09/16/rsf-critique-le-filtra... The senators vote Loppsi 2 and say yes to filtering and police spyware (only in French, 13.09.2010) http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/les-senateurs-votent-la-loppsi-2-et-disent-ou... EDRi-gram: France's Parliament pursues its goal to censor the Internet (24.02.2010) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.4/loppsi-2-adopted-asamblee-nationale ============================================================ 5. Commissioner Malmstrvm sets out her agenda to the European Parliament ============================================================ In a Committee meeting last week and in the Parliament's plenary session this week, Commissioner Malmstrvm has set out her vision on various upcoming issues in her portfolio. In the Committee, Malmstrvm drew attention to the Communications on information sharing instruments and legislative instruments on terrorism and said that the analysis contained therein can be used for the development of future policy. On the exchange of airline passenger name records, she said that a new Communication would be proposed in the plenary session of the Parliament. The internal security strategy will be launched in November and will build on the Stockholm Programme. It will look at cybercrime, organised crime, terrorism etc. and specify some strategic objectives. Also, a proposal on attacks against computer systems ("Lisbonising" and updating an existing Framework Directive) will be proposed this month. Oddly enough, the Commissioner chose not to mention the problematic review of the data retention directive in her speech to the Committee. In the Committee discussion, several insightful interventions were made by parliamentarians about web blocking, data retention and the implementation of the TFTP (SWIFT) agreement. At the plenary session of the Parliament, the Commissioner presented her Communication on transfer of PNR data to third countries. This consists of two parts, one on the general principles that must always be followed in negotiations on this topic. The second part is on procedures in relation to the three countries that the EU already has agreements with, namely the USA, Australia and Canada. EU PNR data will be the subject of a legislative proposal, for which an impact assessment will need to be prepared. One interesting aspect of this is that the Commission is quite clear that the data should only be used for "serious international crime" and proposes that this term should be defined. This, at least, indicates a small step forward in the coherence of the Commission's approach to such issues. The data retention Directive is also theoretically limited to "serious crime", but with no harmonised standard, with some countries having no definition at all, rendering the "limitation" entirely meaningless. On the other hand, the headlong rush of the Commission to develop more and more ways of exporting personal data to third countries remains worrying. Commissioner Malmstrvm's reference to the need for coherence between the "usefulness" of keeping the data and legal certainty is particularly worrying. There is vast potential for exported data to be "useful" for one reason or another. Whether it is necessary and proportionate and, therefore, legal, appears to be less of an immediate concern. Finally, in the press conference, she was asked (see the video linked below - minute 7.00) about the Amadeus server, where the US Department of Homeland Security has (according to the FT Deutschland journalist asking the question) almost unlimited access to EU PNR data. After initially appearing to be unaware of this issue, Commissioner Malmstrvm said that this would fall under the new agreement with the USA. Communication on information sharing: EU information management instruments (20.07.2010) http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/349&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Communication on legislative instruments on terrorism (20.07.2010) http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/Communication%20C... PNR Principles (21.09.2010) http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/COMM_NATIVE_COM_2... Recording of Commissioner Malmstrvm's press conference (21.09.2010) http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/player/streaming.cfm?type=ebsvod&sid=165981 (contrubution by Joe McNamee - EDRi) ============================================================ 6. Swiss court rules that IP address collecting software is illegal ============================================================ The Swiss Federal Court overturned on 8 September 2010 a previous court decision and ruled that the software identifying IP addresses of alleged unauthorised music uploaders was infringing the data protection law. Switzerland-based anti-piracy company Logistep has used software to collect IP addresses from P2P users, seeking for alleged copyright infringers and passing on the addresses to rights holders. The company has thus provided, in the last years, evidence used in lawsuits against individuals accused of copyright infringement. Most of these lawsuits took place is Germany and the UK, but similar techniques have been recently used by rights holders against BitTorrent downloaders in the US. Although Switzerland is not part of the EU and therefore not bound to observe the Data Protection Directive, the Swiss Federal Court considered IP addresses as personal data. The court backed up the country's data commissioner who, in 2008, said that Logistep violated Switzerland's Data Protection Act when it used the software and asked the company to cease probing peer-to-peer networks without a legal basis. In its decision, the Federal Supreme Court has established a clear boundary against the arbitrary probing of personal privacy on the Internet. Logistep will therefore no longer be able to collect IP addresses without the authorization of the persons affected by the action and therefore will be unable to pass on allegedly copyright infringing addresses to rights holders to sue file sharers. Richard Schneider of Logistep stated that his company's work was legal in other European countries and that the company might leave Switzerland. In his opinion, the Swiss court's decision could lead to "a massive and uncontrolled illegal distribution of copyright-protected content in Switzerland, a sort of legal limbo". In France, CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertis- French Data Protection Authority) has authorised four collective societies to collect IP data, that will later be used in the application of the three strikes (HADOPI) law. However CNIL's report notes that there is no control on the software produced by the French company that collects IP addresses, which leads to an almost automatic and blind sanction from Hadopi authority. Swiss court rules IP address-tracing software breached data protection law (10.09.2010) http://www.out-law.com:80//default.aspx?page=11364 Court: Logistep Can't Collect P2P Users' IP Addresses (8.09.2010) http://newteevee.com/2010/09/08/court-logistep-cant-collect-p2p-users-ip-add... Federal Supreme Court decision regarding Logistep AG (9.09.2010) http://www.edoeb.admin.ch/aktuell/01688/index.html?lang=en HADOPI : CNIL denounced the absence of TMG control! (only in French, 20.09.2010) http://www.numerama.com/magazine/16826-hadopi-la-cnil-avait-denonce-l-absenc... CNIL Report related to Hadopi law (10.06.2010) http://www.pcinpact.com/media/rapport-sprd-hadopi-pour-transmission.doc ============================================================ 7. Google's Street View will not resume its activities in the Czech Republic ============================================================ For the second time, the Czech data protection authority (UOOU) rejected Google's application to resume its data collection through its Street View system. The Czech data agency had already rejected a similar request from Google in December 2009. However, Street View photographs taken prior to October 2009 will remain online. Hana Stepankova, a spokesman for UOOU said they had concerns over the legality of Google's service. "We do not have complete certainty the information (collected) is being processed according to law," she said. Google representatives have expressed their disappointment and their belief that Street View is legal in the Czech Republic. "We have in place robust procedures to protect privacy, such as face and number plate blurring and a removals tool. We'll continue to engage in dialogue with the (data protection authority) to answer any other questions they have," wrote Lena Wagner, Google spokesperson, in an e-mail to Deutsche Welle. She expressed Google's confidence that the agency would grant the company permission to resume data collection, provided the process could be done legally. Stepankova also confirmed the intention of the Czech authorities to continue the dialogue with Google in this matter. In Germany, several hundred thousand people have chosen to opt-out from Google StreetView's service; the Germans have been given the possibility to opt-out by 15 October 2010 in case they did not want their homes or businesses to be included in the service. In the light of the debate over Google Street View service, the German government has decided to consider new laws on online data protection. On 20 September, a high-level meeting took place in Berlin, chaired by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, with representatives of the IT industry to discuss the chances, risks and restrictions of publishing private data on the Internet. In an e-mail sent to Deutsche Welle, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, an Austrian professor and the director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore expressed his opinion that Google will continue to face problems in several European countries having in view the different approaches in the implementation and interpretation of the data protection directive. "It is conceivable that capturing license plates and building facades through Street View is legal in the UK, but illegal in the Czech Republic. Especially nations with a surveillance past (like Eastern and Central Europe) often have tough privacy laws. It will take a long time and much effort for Google to navigate this thicket of information privacy laws," said the expert. However, Google has recently been cleared in the UK by the Information Commissioner, as it has been found that Street View vehicles had not collected "significant" personal details but the company it is still under investigation by the Metropolitan police. In the meantime, the company continues to extend its Street View service into Europe and stated in August they would send their Street View cars to Latvia. Czech Republic stops Google from further Street View photography (15.09.2010) http://www.dw-world.de:80/dw/article/0,,6006085,00.html Czechs halt Google Street View (15.09.2010) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11312390 Strong German opposition to Google Street View: report (19.09.2010) http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h5h55tBTr1LFxFWc6gkE_2E6t... EDRi-gram: Google Street View faces citizens' reservation in EU (25.08.2010) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.16/google-streetview-rejected-germany-f... ============================================================ 8. FSFE insists on promoting free PDF readers ============================================================ The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) calls on all Europeans to seek out advertisements for proprietary PDF readers on their government's websites, and report them. In addition, FSFE has prepared a petition demanding an end to such advertising practices, and encourages the public to sign it. "Every time that state websites link to non-free applications and encourage visitors to use them, they needlessly encourage citizens to throw away their freedom", says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President. As websites such as pdfreaders.org demonstrate, Free Software PDF readers exist for all major operating systems. Fellows of FSFE launched the project in 2009 in response to public bodies' habit of advertising a particular non-free product on their sites. FSFE's Fellowship Coordinator Matthias Kirschner comments: "What would you think about a sign on the highway saying 'You need a Volkswagen to drive on this road. Contact your Volkswagen dealer for a gratis test drive'? When it comes to PDF readers, governments seem to think that this is acceptable." Such endorsements give unfair advantage to whichever proprietary product they recommend, and are often accompanied by inaccurate statements presenting the application as the only available option. The hunt begins on 13 September 2010 and will continue until 17 October 2010. Prizes will be awarded at the end of October to the individuals and groups who report the greatest number of proprietary software advertisements on government websites. Free Software PDF Readers http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Government Websites http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.html Get a Free Software PDF reader! http://pdfreaders.org/ (Thanks to Free Software Foundation Europe) ============================================================ 9. ENDitorial: Internet blocking in ten weeks and counting ============================================================ Within the next ten weeks, the European Parliament will finish its crucial first reading of the Directive which, if the European Commission has its way, will impose an EU-wide blocking infrastructure - undermining child protection, fundamental rights and the EU's voice on freedom and democracy in the world. The measure proposed is quite interesting. The text reads as follows: "Member States shall take the necessary measures to obtain the blocking of access by Internet users in their territory to Internet pages containing or disseminating child pornography. The blocking of access shall be subject to adequate safeguards, in particular to ensure that the blocking is limited to what is necessary, that users are informed of the reason for the blocking and that content providers, as far as possible, are informed of the possibility of challenging it." The first point to note is that it proposes an undefined approach and not any form of minimum standard. Any technology that could possibly follow under the dictionary definition of blocking, no matter how technologically flawed, no matter how out of date, no matter how damaging to networks would be acceptable. The Commission simultaneously feels that the problem is so urgent that blocking must be proposed, yet the problem is so unimportant that any deficient or out of date technology is perfectly fine. The supporters of blocking have been very curiously and very completely silent on this point. The "safeguards" are also of limited value. Ensuring the blocking is limited to what a Member State considers "necessary" means little, with countries like France planning to block sites accused of intellectual property infringement and Denmark blocking (and thereby boosting traffic by 12%) the Pirate Bay website. Informing the users about the reasons for the block is not a safeguard, it is a very limited exercise in transparency. Finally, a provision whereby the owners of websites depicting serious crimes against children are politely informed that their website is the subject of a weak, inadequate blocking system is not a safeguard - unless you are the grateful criminal being given this valuable information. So far, many Members of the European Parliament have been convinced that blocking is an undesirable option. Unfortunately, however mantras being repeated by a powerful alliance of businesses, Commission-funded NGOs and the Commission itself are having an effect on parliamentarians. As a result, the most likely outcome at the moment is a "compromise" that would say blocking should be a last resort, once everything else has been tried. So, an obligation would be imposed on Member States to build a blocking infrastructure, with the request that they not use it, if possible. Three messages are being pushed particularly hard: 1. This proposal is only about child abuse images, it will not spread into other policy areas. This message is being pushed even though the Commission itself is offering funding for blocking of other material, even though the Council of Ministers has adopted a text supporting blocking to protect national gambling monopolies and even though blocking is spreading into other fields in countries such as Belgium (gambling), Bulgaria (gambling), France (gambling and intellectual property), Italy (gambling, intellectual property, free online advertising, defamation, cigarette import, steroid advice) and Lithuania (gambling). 2. Blocking "works in some cases". In no case can leaving a child abuse website online be considered "working". In no case can leaving criminals unpunished and victims unprotected be considered working. Yet, somehow, the impression is being created that the abuse websites are somehow just a nuisance that will disappear if we can only persuade the whole continent to look away. 3. Blocking "stops accidental access," yet it has proven completely impossible for the European Commission to produce evidence from the Internet hotlines that it funds (on condition that statistics are produced!) showing that there are any fewer complaints about illegal content being found online in countries with blocking compared with those without blocking. In any event, with only approximately one person in every three thousand reporting illegal content, the numbers involved are miniscule. Unless something is done now, in a few short years, blocking will have sapped the political motivation to take real measures to fight online child abuse. The powerful intellectual property lobby and national gambling monopolies have had blocking installed for their interests. The "self-regulatory" blocking so enthusiastically supported by the Commission will be used by the tabloid media to pressure Internet Service Providers to block whatever takes their fancy (as can be seen in the USA from the Craigslist case and the case where T-Mobile allegedly blocked text messages for a legal medicinal marijuana supplier). One would almost feel sorry for the Commission in years to come when it tries to explain to China or Iran or Turkey they are placing too many restrictions on the use of the Internet. The reason why blocking is never the answer is that "blocking" leaves the website online - it doesn't block the website at all, it takes down the signpost, while leaving infinite numbers of roads to the blocked site open. It leaves the illegal site easily accessible for anyone who wants to see it. It does nothing to investigate the criminals or the users of the site, it does nothing to identify and rescue the victims. All it could conceivably do is stop accidental access and nobody has been able to show that this is a problem that would require a blocking infrastructure to be developed, which anyway can be (and already is in several countries) misused for less important issues, such as protecting national gambling monopolies. Only about one person in every three thousand , in any one year, reports illegal child abuse material to a national hotline - the argument that blocking is necessary as a short term solution to prevent accidental access while websites are being taken offline simply bears no relationship with reality. The time is now to protect the Open Internet in Europe. The time is now to contact parliamentarians and persuade them not to make possibly the biggest mistake in the history of the Internet in Europe and the world. EDRi's blocking booklet http://www.edri.org/files/blocking_booklet.pdf German Version http://www.edri.org/files/Booklet_dt_final.pdf T-Mobile sued for allegedly blocking pot-related texting (18.09.2010) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20016908-38.html Censoring Craigslist (8.09.2010) http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/2010/09/08/censorship-craigslist/ European Commission funding proposal http://bit.ly/ckWv9F Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, repealing Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2010&nu_doc=0094 "Impact assessment": Accompanying document to the Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, repealing Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA - Impact assessment {COM(2009) 135} {SEC(2009) 356 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52009SC0355:EN:N... Commission official explains the Commission's research: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFpoXIdRQc Cybercriminals thank Commissioner Malmstrvm: http://www.cybercriminalsociety.eu/index.php (Contribution by Joe McNamee - EDRi) ============================================================ 10. Recommended Reading ============================================================ Charter for the democratic use of video-surveillance Available in 9 EU languages http://www.fesu.org/index.php?id=31768&L=lumsppdylqqony OSCAR or the denial of European citizenship to Roma (only in French, 21.09.2010) http://www.iris.sgdg.org/info-debat/comm-oscar0910.html Fringe Special: Overview of all FOI laws: 80 national FOIAs - 184 sub-national FOIAs - & 2 international FOIA compiled by Roger Vleugel (20.09.2010) http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/sep/foia-fringe-special-overview-sep-20-... Internet Governance Forum a beacon of openness https://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/Internet%20Governance%20Forum%20a%20... ============================================================ 11. Agenda ============================================================ 8-9 October 2010, Berlin, Germany The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Home 25-26 October 2010, Jerusalem, Israel OECD Conference on "Privacy, Technology and Global Data Flows", celebrating the 30th anniversary of the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data http://www.oecd.org/sti/privacyanniversary 27-29 October 2010, Jerusalem, Israel The 32nd Annual International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners http://www.privacyconference2010.org/ 28-31 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain oXcars and Free Culture Forum 2010, the biggest free culture event of all time http://exgae.net/oxcars10 http://fcforum.net/10 3-5 November 2010, Barcelona, Spain The Fifth International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law. http://www.lspi.net/ 5-7 November 2010, Cologne, Germany Transparency, Work, Surveillance Joint Annual Meeting of FIfF and DVD http://fiff.de/veranstaltungen/fiff-jahrestagungen/JT2010/jt2010_uebersicht 5-7 November 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit http://www.fscons.org/ 17 November 2010, Gent, Belgium Big Brother Awards 2010 Belgium http://www.winuwprivacy.be/kandidaten 25-28 January 2011, Brussels, Belgium The annual Conference Computers, Privacy & Data Protection CPDP 2011 European Data Protection: In Good Health? 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