Archive for 2009/10 :

Romanian Constitutional Court says no to data retention

Posted by Bogdan on 22/10/09

Article published in EDRi-gram 7.20
The Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) announced on 7 October 2009 that it took the decision to consider unconstitutional the Romanian implementation of the data retention directive.
The Romanian data retention law has been in force since the beginning of 2009, but it received a lot of bad press reviews, as reported by [...]

Open letter from EDRi to the Members of the European Parliament - on the Telecoms Package and Amendment 138

Posted by Bogdan on 21/10/09

(published also in EDRi-gram 7.20)
To the Members of the European Parliament,
European Digital Rights is an association of 29 privacy and civil rights organisations based in 18 European countries and active across the European Union. As an association whose focus is on protecting the civil rights of online citizens, we have serious concerns about the possible [...]

Actions in the “Freedom not Fear” 2009

Posted by Bogdan on 02/10/09

Article published in EDRi-gram 7.18 (available also in German)
On Saturday, 12 September 2009, civil liberties activists in many countries again took it to the streets under the motto “Freedom not Fear - Stop the Surveillance Mania”. It was the second time these activities took place after the first international action day on [...]

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