============================================================ EDRi-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 8.14, 14 July 2010 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. SWIFT agreement adopted by the European Parliament 2. European Parliament invents Google Nanny 3. Increased Internet censorship in Belarus 4. The Digital Economy Act brought to court by two UK ISPs 5. Belgium ISPs are not obliged to block The Pirate Bay 6. Blocking of innocent websites by O2 Ireland 7. Facebook faces serious fines in Germany 8. Yahoo is not bound to give personal data to Belgian authorities 9. ENDitorial: French biometric passport: case still pending after 2 years 10. Recommended Action 11. Recommended Reading 12. Agenda 13. About ============================================================ 1. SWIFT agreement adopted by the European Parliament ============================================================ The European Parliament has adopted the so-called SWIFT agreement on 8 July 2010 allowing sharing EU citizens' bank data with the US authorities, but failing to stick to its initial position on privacy safeguards from February 2010. The text was adopted with 484 votes in favour and 109 against. The supporters of the current version claim that the new text was significantly improved by gaining a number of important concessions from the US. These include the limitation of bulk data being transfer to the US or the role of Europol in overseeing the transfer process. However, even the data protection European bodies - EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party - have underlined that the current agreement does not meet the European privacy standards. As EDRi has explained in a FAQ made public shortly before the vote, there is no prior judicial ruling required for transfer of data, the definition of "terrorism" is very broad and there is still no legal redress available for EU citizens in the US against data transfers or the possibly serious consequences thereof. Also, in practice, SWIFT can't currently limit data searches to specific individuals or single transactions. Actually, it will have to (and has in the past) transfer data about all transactions from a certain country or a certain bank on a certain date. There have been reports that the US Treasury has received up to 25% of all SWIFT transactions, which number in the billions each year. As regards the Europol's position, the EU body is far from a judicial authority and it is now authorized to request information from the US searches in the transferred data, which drastically reduces any incentive to limit the transferred amount of data in the first place. This agreement will enter into force on 1 August 2010. The current text will be valid for 5 years and then automatically extends for one year at a time. In order to terminate the agreement, one of the parties has to take an initiative. Even if it is terminated, all transferred data will remain at the disposal of US authorities. The data provided to the American authorities will be subject to a retention period of 5 years. Agreement between the EU and the USA on the processing and transfer of financial messaging data from the EU to the USA for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (8.07.2010) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2010-0279+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN The Parliament shows the green light for the SWIFT II agreement (only in French, 8.07.2010) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/focus_page/008-76988-176-06-26-901... US to access Europeans' bank data in new deal (8.07.2010) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10552630.stm Frequently Asked Questions on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program / "SWIFT" Agreement (7.07.2010) http://www.edri.org/faq-2-swift-agreement-edri EDRi-gram: Same privacy concerns for the new SWIFT treaty (30.06.2010) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.13/new-swift-treaty-privacy-concerns ============================================================ 2. European Parliament invents Google Nanny ============================================================ The Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection of the European Parliament has found another use for Google. From now on, Google should read what we are searching for and, if the search implies any risky behaviour, Google should tell us to be careful. Of course, it would not be just Google but any "search engine" and nobody felt to that it was necessary define what exactly a "search engine" would be in this context. The first such "risky" behaviour would be looking for information about medication. In a report about falsified medicine, the Committee agreed to a proposal to insert warnings in search engines in the event of a search for medicinal products on the internet. Whether or not people exist who would both be foolish enough to search for (and buy?) dangerous medicines from uncertified sources online, but yet clever enough to accept Google's wise counsel, is not yet clear. A further question is how one could implement such a policy without scaring people away from using entirely legitimate and verified online pharmacies. One can, however, see lots of useful ways in which this measure can be spread into other areas where people may be searching for things which could, in some circumstances, be dangerous. There are vast numbers of things which are at least as dangerous as searching for information about medication online, although the biggest danger of all seems to be the creation of a society whose common sense has atrophied through living in a nanny state where people are no longer expected to think for themselves. Undemocratic countries will also be looking with interest on what can be done using such a system. Belarus claims that its new laws restricting the Internet are based on legislation introduced in France and the United Kingdom. The prospect of search engines giving a warning of the consequences of accessing certain online resources would be an interesting new addition to an armoury of internet restrictions. The Committee report (adopted by 46 votes to zero, with two abstentions) will be probably voted in a plenary session of the European Parliament in September. It is unclear if alternative proposals will be tabled or whether the European Commission will support the measure. Draft report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2001/83/EC as regards the prevention of the entry into the legal supply chain of medicinal products which are falsified in relation to their identity, history or source (7.05.2010) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A7-2010-0148+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN (Contribution by Joe McNamee - EDRi) ============================================================ 3. Increased Internet censorship in Belarus ============================================================ The Belarus government has adopted new measures increasing the control of the Internet and restrictions on online freedom of expression. Following Decree no.60 (On measures for improving use of the national Internet network) issued on 1 February 2010 by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Belarus Council of Ministers adopted five resolutions with new Internet regulations introducing the compulsory registration of all web sites and the collection of personal data of Internet cafe users. The decree will enter fully into force on 1 September but the police has already started interrogations and equipment seizures in a campaign meant to intimidate Internet users and online journalists. According to the new regulations, all ISPs on the territory of Belarus, irrespective of their commercial or non-commercial nature, must register with the Communication and Information Ministry and provide technical details about online information resources, networks and systems used to connect to the Internet, including computers and mobile phones. The Council of Ministers issued on 29 April 2010 a decree "On some questions of improving usage of the national segment of global Internet computer network" according to which the information on registered Internet resources gathered by a registering organisation is to be further on passed to the Operative-Analytical Center. The body created by the same Decree no.60 will be subordinated to the President's office and will have the task to monitor the content before it is put online, meaning it will actually be a censorship organism. At the request of the Center, ISPs are to close down any website within 24 hours. The Belarusian State Telecommunication Inspection will make a list of forbidden websites on the ground of proposals of appropriate governmental bodies. If a Belarusian site is included on the blacklist, the owner will receive a notice about that. The blacklist will further on be published on the Telecommunication Inspection website, but the national ISPs may extend that if they want. Also any person accessing the Internet in an Internet cafi or using a shared connection with one, must provide an identification document and a record of all his (her) online connections will be kept for a year. Based on the new legislation, Beltelecom, the state-own ISP has recently blocked access to kurier.vitebsk.by, Vitebsky Kuryer's newspaper's website which had not registered with the authorities for ideological reasons. The reasons are actually political ones as the site criticized local and national policies. The decree appears to be in fact aimed at blocking opposition's Internet resources in view of the upcoming presidential elections. The decree has been strongly opposed and criticized by the media community and international human rights organizations, including OSCE. Nine members of the National Bolshevik Party who made an unauthorised demonstration on the Freedom Square in Minsk on 23 June 2010, waving placards and wearing T-shirts with the words "Internet Freedom", were arrested, convicted and fined for the infringement of the procedures for holding demonstrations. Authorities step up Internet restrictions, harassment of online journalists (6.07.2010) http://en.rsf.org:80/belarus-authorities-step-up-internet-06-07-2010,37867.h... All legal sites placed in .by domain will be obliged to move to Belarusian hosting (27.05.2010) http://e-belarus.org/news/201005271.html Full text of Internet censorship regulation released in Belarus (6.07.2010) http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2010/7/6/30382/ No Entry to Belarusian Internet Cafes without Passport (2.07.2010) http://telegraf.by/2010/07/no-entry-to-belarusian-internet-cafes-without-pas... EDRi-gram: New Belarus Internet regulations require compulsory web registration (19.05.2010) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.10/censorship-belarus-registration-webs... ============================================================ 4. The Digital Economy Act brought to court by two UK ISPs ============================================================ The two big UK ISPs, BT and TalkTalk, have asked the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the most controversial aspects of the Digital Economy Act, in order to establish whether it is in contradiction with existing privacy and electronic communication laws. The law will force ISPs to disconnect their customers deemed by intellectual property rights holders to have allegedly infringed copyrights. "The companies share a concern that obligations imposed by the Act may not be compatible with important European rules that are designed to ensure that national laws are proportionate, protect users' privacy, restrict the role of ISPs in policing the Internet and maintain a single market," says a statement of the two ISPs. Regulator Ofcom, which is in charge of drawing up detailed plans on how the legislation will work, has recently publicly presented the draft policy to deal with illegal file-sharers, requiring ISPs to send warning letters to customers who allegdly illegally download films, music and TV programs. A provision was added at the last moment stipulating that several rounds of consultation would be required before the implementation of such measures. The two ISPs believe they are also disadvantaged by the Digital Economy Act as, presently, the code of practice applies only to ISPs with more than 400 000 subscribers and therefore they may see all lot of their customers move to smaller ISPs which are not subject to the legislation. Technology lawyer Struan Robertson of Pinsent Masons stated that the court could not do much about a law that has already been approved by the Parliament: "All the court can do is make a declaration that a law is in breach of other obligations. That declaration would put pressure on Parliament to revisit the act." Although, according to BBC, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said that the Digital Economy Act "badly needs to be repealed" the new coalition government has no plans to change it. "The Digital Economy Act sets out to protect our creative economy from the continued threat of online copyright infringement, which industry estimates costs the creative industries, including creators, #400m per year," read a statement from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills which also said: "We believe measures are consistent with EU legislation and that there are enough safeguards in place to protect the rights of consumers and ISPs and will continue to work on implementing them." ISPs take Digital Economy Act to the courts (8.07.2010) http://www.out-law.com:80//default.aspx?page=11211 BT and TalkTalk challenge Digital Economy Act (8.07.2010) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10542400.stm EDRi-gram: UK Digital Economy Bill voted by the Parliament (21.04.2010) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.8/digital-economy-bill-uk ============================================================ 5. Belgium ISPs are not obliged to block The Pirate Bay ============================================================ Two Belgian ISPs have won their court battle against an anti-piracy group which had demanded that they block the access to The Pirate Bay. On 9 July 2010, the Antwerp Commercial Court rejected the blocking demands made by the Belgium Anti-Piracy Federation against the two ISPs, considering that the measure would be "disproportionate". The entertainment industry has exerted pressures recently on ISPs to block the Pirate Bay but most of them are refusing to comply. The negotiations the Anti-Piracy Federation had with Belgacom and Telenet ended up in court but the court ruled in favour of the ISPs. The ISPs argued they were merely technical operators and did not have the capacity to judge which sites were illegal and should be blocked. "It is not the role of Telenet to decide which sites should be available or not to our users. As a service provider, this is not within our competence," said a spokesperson for one of the ISPs. Also in Norway, the main ISP has refused to block access to The Pirate Bay considering that "asking from an ISP to control and establish what its users can or not download is as bad as asking from a post office to open and read any letter and to decide which should or not be delivered" as explained Ragnar Kerus, Telenor Director who added that it was not a question of being for or against copyright but of knowing whether it was "reasonable for ISPs to have the role of Internet censor in order to make certain rights observed". Another action follows the OpenBitTorrent that moved to the Spanish hosting company SoloGigabit. Spain is one of the countries where BitTorrent search trackers are not considered to infringe the law. Even so, IFPI has decided to go after the OpenBitTorrent's new Spanish host and has sent a letter to SoloGigabit stating that the hosting company could be "liable for aiding and abetting criminal copyright infringements and receiving payments from criminal activity." According to the Spanish legislation, BitTorrent search trackers are considered legal although some of their users may use it to download copyright infringing content. The OpenBitTorrent tracker is just a communication facilitator between torrent users. "According to all Spanish legal resolutions, a link does not communicate nor reproduces the work under intellectual property. So, linking is not a violation, hosting without the rights holders permission is," told copyright expert and lawyer Javier de la Cueva to TorrentFreak. It is not yet certain what position will SoloGigabit take, having in view that the company is a rather small one and might not be able to face a long and costly trial even if it does not infringe the Spanish law. ISPs Don't Have To Block The Pirate Bay, Court Rules (10.07.2010) http://torrentfreak.com/isps-dont-have-to-block-the-pirate-bay-court-rules-1... The Belgium justice refuses to impose the blocking of The Pirate Bay (only in French, 10.07.2010) http://www.numerama.com/magazine/16222-la-justice-belge-refuse-d-imposer-le-... IFPI threatens OpenBitTorrent's host, despite the Spanish jurisprudence (only in French, 12.07.2010) http://www.numerama.com/magazine/16224-l-ifpi-menace-l-hebergeur-d-openbitto... Music Industry Threatens OpenBitTorrent's New Hosting Provider (11.07.2010) http://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-threaten-openbittorrents-new-hosting-... ============================================================ 6. Blocking of innocent websites by O2 Ireland ============================================================ The Irish mobile operator O2 has acknowledged accidentally blocking the image hosting website IMGUR through its system for blocking alleged child abuse material. There appears to have been no indication that there was, in fact, any illegal material hosted on that site. Furthermore, it is not obvious on what basis O2 could have made the decision to undertake the blocking. In a statement provided to the Irish hotline, which was not published but simply made available to people who enquired about the problem, O2 explained that "the technology behind the service (to block child abuse images) is more far reaching than anticipated and on occasion a site which should not be blocked may be." It is impossible to tell how many other innocent, but smaller and therefore less noticeable, websites are similarly blocked by accident, due to this "far reaching technology." O2 undertakes its blocking system on a voluntary basis, despite the fact that, according to the European Commission, "such measures must indeed be subject to law, or they are illegal"(according to the Commission's impact assessment on the draft Directive on child exploitation). Nonetheless, the European Commission is also now supporting such extra-judicial measures and it is now also proposing to use taxpayers' money to fund them. A six million euro call for proposals launched in June 2010 refers to funding for "blocking access to child pornography OR blocking the access to illegal Internet content through public-private cooperation". This call, by the Commission, for "self-regulatory" blocking of allegedly illegal content in general was made just a few weeks after Commissioner Malmstrvm explained at a conference that "the Commission has absolutely no plans to propose blocking of other types of content - and I would personally very strongly oppose any such idea". It is likely that further deliberate and accidental blocking of websites will now spread in Ireland, due to the fact that the Irish former monopoly Eircom agreed to block sites accused of containing unauthorised material, while mobile operator Vodafone has reportedly also indicated that it will introduce extra-judicial measures against any of its customers repeatedly accused of infringements. Many blogs and online message boards accused the Irish Internet hotline of having prepared a faulty blocking list and this was what led to IMGUR being blocked. As the Irish internet hotline does not prepare a blocking list, but simply acts in its capacity as a hotline, these allegations were incorrect. Commission 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 (25.03.2010) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52009SC0355:EN:N... Irish Internet hotline http://www.hotline.ie Vodafone in line to join file-sharing clampdown (16.06.2010) http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0616/1224272615990.html European Commission call for proposals: "Prevention of and fight against crime" http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/isec/doc/tc2_call_2010_en.pdf Commissioner Malmstrvm speech: "Combating sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography: the Commission's proposed Directive" (6.05.2010) http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/Speech%20%20Malms... FOI shows Department of Justice planning internet blocking for Ireland (16.04.2010) http://www.digitalrights.ie/2010/04/16/foi-shows-department-of-justice-plann... Internet Filtering in Ireland: More Information from the Seanad (1.06.2010) http://www.digitalrights.ie/2010/06/01/internet-filtering-in-ireland-more-in... (Contribution by Joe McNamee - EDRi) ============================================================ 7. Facebook faces serious fines in Germany ============================================================ The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information John Caspar has launched legal proceedings against the operator of the social network Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the respective social networking site. "We consider the saving of data from third parties, in this context, to be against personal data laws," said Caspar. Germany benefits of one of the strictest privacy laws in the world that includes precise limits to the access to personal data and has already launched an investigation on Google, as well as in relation to its Street View mapping system. Facebook was given until 11 August 2010 to give a formal response to the legal complaint which may lead to its being fined tens of thousands of euro, if the response is not acceptable. Although Facebook has changed its privacy settings in order to allow its users to block access to their e-mail address contacts, the Commissioner argues that the already saved contacts have not been erased and are used for marketing purposes. Facebook collects data also on non-members, by using, for instance, the Facebook application for iPhones which allows the transfer of all the contacts from the mobile phone to the social network. This offers the option to transfer all available contacts in the mobile phone on Facebook. Also, when somebody creates a new account on Facebook, the system offers to search into the new member's e-mail accounts to find friends on the network. Caspar stated that many citizens had recently "complained about the use of third party data" meaning that they had been contacted by Facebook after it had obtained their e-mail addresses from contacts of network members. The Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner announced in June that she was planning to give up her Facebook account considering the social network was not doing enough to protect users' data. Germany takes legal steps against Facebook (6.07.2010) http://www.google.com:80/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jipwYBDk87V1KRECUQ_C2a_... Hamburg data protection commissioner initiated penalty proceedings against Facebook (7.07.2010) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Hamburgs-Datenschuetzer-leitet-Bussge... Penalty proceedings against Facebook for storing the data of others (only in German, 7.07.2010) http://www.hamburg.de/pressearchiv-fhh/2365106/datenschutz-facebook.html ============================================================ 8. Yahoo is not bound to give personal data to Belgian authorities =========================================================== The Belgian Court of Appeal of Gand ruled on 30 June 2010 that Yahoo was not obliged to hand over personal data of its users to the Belgian authorities, in a case where the first instance had issued a contrary ruling. In 2009, following a cybercrime investigation by the Belgian police, it was discovered that a group was using Yahoo e-mail addresses to commit online fraud. The members of the group stole data from various companies and used the data to order goods without paying. Yahoo was requested by the Belgian Public Prosecutor to hand over the IDs related to the e-mail addresses used by the group but the company refused to comply and, on 2 March 2009, received a 55 000 euro fine from a Termonde judge who also imposed a daily penalty fee of 10 000 euro in case of non-compliance with the judgment. The court did not consider Yahoo's argument that it was not subject to the Belgian law as it had no legal entity in Belgium and did not store any customer data in Belgium. The appeal court has now decided that there was no legal basis for the 2009 ruling against the company. "There is not enough evidence that the providers of free of charge e-mail addresses are also electronic communication services. In other words, there is no proof that Yahoo deals directly with sending the signals. It has no control over the network as an e-mail provider" said the decision of the Appeal Court. It is reported that, throughout the whole process, no attempt was ever made by the Belgian authorities to use existing Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty to obtain the requested data via recognised legal channels. Gand: Yahoo! acquitted in appeal for not having transmitted data to justice (only in French, 30.06.2010) http://levif.rnews.be/fr/news/belga-generique/gand-yahoo-acquitte-en-appel-d... A Win for Yahoo! And for Privacy in Belgium (6.07.2010) http://www.yhumanrightsblog.com/blog/2010/07/06/a-win-for-yahoo-and-for-priv... EDRi-gram: Yahoo penalised in Belgium for not disclosing personal data (11.03.2009) http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.5/belgium-decision ============================================================ 9. ENDitorial: French biometric passport: case still pending after 2 years ============================================================ It took more than two years after the complaint against the French biometric passport was filed to have the conclusions of the "public rapporteur" publicly presented at the Conseil d'Etat (French highest administrative Court), on 30 June 2010. While the final court decision was expected some weeks later as it usually occurs, the plaintiffs received instead an official note that the conclusions presented on 30 June were dismissed, and that some more analysis was needed: the case will now be heard on October 2010. The French biometric passport entered into force after a decree was published on 4 May 2008. On 4 July 2008, a case was jointly filed before the Conseil d'Etat by two NGOs: French EDRI member IRIS and the French Human Rights League, to obtain the annulment of this decree. Other complaints were filed by a group of 10 citizens from Toulouse, and by photographers associations and companies, the latter complaint highlighting economic issues with the decree. The main provisions targeted by the two NGOs are: the establishment of a centralized national biometric database; the collection and storage in the database of 8 fingerprints (only 2 of them being also stored in the passport chip), instead of the 2 required by the European regulation on biometric passports; the collection of fingerprints of children starting from age 6. Legal substantive and procedural arguments against these provisions are provided in the complaint. In the French Conseil d'Etat judicial system, the "public rapporteur" is a member of the Council in charge of presenting to the court the claim put forward in the complaint, of analyzing the circumstances and the applicable law, and of proposing independent and impartial conclusions and recommendations regarding the final decision. Usually, the court follows these conclusions, or simply makes slight modifications before delivering its judgement. Two years after the complaint was filed, the "public rapporteur" recommended the annulment of the provision requiring to collect and store in the centralized database the 6 additional fingerprints, on the basis that this was disproportionate with respect to the European regulation. While he didn't recommend the annulment of the provision creating a centralized database, the "public rapporteur" pointed out that this was not required by the European regulation, and that French and European data protection institutions, as well as the European Parliament, voiced strong concerns against this provision. However, the "public rapporteur" considered, following the opinions of the French Ministry of Interior, that this centralized database is necessary to avoid identity fraud and passport trafficking, including in the case of children starting from age of 6. Apparently, these timid conclusions were still too provocative for the Conseil d'Etat or were they, on the contrary, indeed too timid in the Court's view as well? No one knows yet why the Conseil d'Etat considered that they needed to be dismissed, and that four additional months of investigations and discussions were still needed to reach a decision. In the mean time, the deployment of the French biometric passport has been going on since the publication of the decree, given that such complaints do not have any suspensive effect. EDRi-gram: Complaint Against The French Govt To Annul The Biometric Passport Decree. The French Government goes against CNIL in biometric passports (16.07.2008) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.14/complaint-french-biometric-passport French biometric passport dossier (all available documents, only in French) http://www.ines.sgdg.org/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=passeport (Contribution by Meryem Marzouki - EDRi-member IRIS - France) ============================================================ 10. Recommended Action ============================================================ Over 300 MEPs have signed the Written Declaration on ACTA. Please continue to contact your MEPs and ask them to sign the Written Declaration at the next Strasbourg plenary session on 6-9 September. Less than 70 signatures needed by 9 September 2010 ! http://www.eff.org/action/eu-action-alert-urge-your-mep-take-stand-internet-... http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Written_declaration_ACTA_12/2010 http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Help_sign_the_Written_Declaration_12/2010_a... ============================================================ 11. Recommended Reading ============================================================ Joint Comments EDRi and EuroISPA to the Dialogue on Notice and Take Down of illegal content (07.2010) http://www.edri.org/files/090710_dialogue_NTD_illegal_content_EuroISPA-EDRI.... New Challenges to Data Protection study for DG Justice, Freedom and Security (8.07.2010) Executive summary http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638945 Final report http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1636706 In French http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638920 In German http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638917 Country-specific reports http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/studies/index_en.htm Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/docs/report-on-implementat... ============================================================ 12. Agenda ============================================================ 24 July 2010, London, UK ORGCon, first ever conference dedicated to digital rights in the UK. http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/book-now-first-ever-orgcon-24-july 25-31 July 2010, Meissen, Germany European Summer School on Internet Governance http://www.euro-ssig.eu 29-31 July 2010, Freiburg, Germany IADIS - International Conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2010 http://www.ict-conf.org/ 2-6 August 2010, Helsingborg, Sweden Privacy and Identity Management for Life (PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010) http://www.cs.kau.se/IFIP-summerschool/ 31 August - 3 September 2010, Budapest, Hungary OpenOffice 2010 Conference http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010 13-17 September 2010, Crete, Greece Privacy and Security in the Future Internet 3rd Network and Information Security (NIS'10) Summer School http://www.nis-summer-school.eu 14-16 September 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania Internet Governance Forum 2010 http://igf2010.lt/ 20-21 September 2010, Helsinki Finland Finnish Internet Forum http://internetforum.fi 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. Call for papers deadline: 10 September 2010 http://www.lspi.net/ 17 November 2010, Gent, Belgium Big Brother Awards 2010 Belgium http://www.winuwprivacy.be/kandidaten ============================================================ 13. About ============================================================ EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 27 members based or with offices in 17 different countries in Europe. European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments in the EU accession countries and wants to share knowledge and awareness through the EDRI-grams. All contributions, suggestions for content, corrections or agenda-tips are most welcome. Errors are corrected as soon as possible and visibly on the EDRI website. Except where otherwise noted, this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. 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