international relations

  • Blog: Data protection: Reflections on the EU entering the digital age

    After almost 5 years, it’s finally happened. Today the European Parliament (EP) signed off without rejections on the EU’s new data protection package. Negotiated in countless sessions between Commission, Council and Parliament, it includes the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Directive for the police and criminal justice sector, replacing legislation written when

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  • Blog: Reflections on Joe Cannataci’s first report

    Joseph Cannataci recently submitted his first report as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy — a brand new position, created in July 2015 in the wake of the German-Brazilian initiative for a UN resolution on privacy in the digital age. The report includes a description of Cannataci’s working methods, a general overview of privacy-relevant topics,

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  • Article: Human rights aren’t enough any more — we need a new strategy

    We must recognise dissent as a bedrock of a healthy society, without which there can be no creativity, innovation, disruption, progress and — crucially — democracy. Read full piece on openDemocracy.

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  • Artikel: Gefangen im Netz von Mark Zuckerberg

    Große Internetunternehmen wie Facebook oder Google spinnen kontinuierlich ihr Netz, mit dem sie sich in immer mehr Bereiche unseres Lebens vortasten — Nachrichten, Bilder, soziale Netzwerke, mobile Anwendungen. Mehr und mehr nehmen sie auf diese Weise auch Einfluss auf die Informationen, die wir zu Gesicht bekommen, sie begrenzen unsere Wahlfreiheit und manipulieren fernab von demokratischer Kontrolle. Dem

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Cathleen Berger