EDRi is an organisation in Brussels that represents a number of European digital rights organisations. They publish a regular news-letter. It can be worthwhile subscribing if you are interested in what governments are doing in this area. Some of it can be quite surprising!
The web-version of the latest edition of their news-letter is here.
https://edri.org/edri-gram/12-21/
The contents include:
• Hungary's Internet tax postponed but not yet abolished
• CJEU: Embedding not a copyright infringement
• Poland: New project on public institutions' surveillance practices
• Finland: Web service to request verifying of secret registry data
• The “Google tax” that is not a Google tax
• Samaritans RADAR monitor tweets
• FTDI: Is the law criminal?
:-)
Gordon
I have been talking to various people about an event last week in Brussels. It was called DemoSec and was the joint final event for three EU-funded projects.
Details of the event can be found here:
DemoSec: Democracy and Security
http://www.jointfinalevent2014.eu
Details of each of the three projects can be found here:
IRISS: Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies
http://irissproject.eu
RESPECT: Rules, Expectations & Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies
http://respectproject.eu
SURVEILLE: Surveillance: Ethical Issues, Legal Limitation, and Efficiency
http://www.surveille.eu
The information available is very variable between the projects. But RESPECT alone received €3492687 funding. So a significant amount of work.
SURVEILLE has though made available a number of reports. Their paper on a "Terrorism Prevention Scenario" and the related paper on NSA may be of particular interest. See: http://www.surveille.eu/index.php/research/publications/
:-)
Gordon
