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5 January 2012

Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress

Written by Becky Hogge · Advocacy, activism

The Chaos Communications Congress is the annual meetup of Germany's Chaos Computer Club, one of the oldest hacker collectives in the world. The programme mixes technical talks from the security and free software worlds with talks about online rights and hacktivism.

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10 March 2011

Spanish intellectual property law and global netfreedom

Written by Leila Nachawati · law, regulation

Many of the challenges and threats that Egyptians, Tunisians or Libyans are facing are global and affect civil societies as a whole. Among these is the threat against the Internet...

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3 February 2011

As International Privacy Day is Celebrated, Governments Continue to Chip Away at Privacy Rights

Written by Katitza Rodriguez · regulation

“Effective data protection is vital for our democracies and underpins other fundamental rights and freedoms.” - Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and...

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30 December 2010

Hungary introduces press censorship

Written by Bhumika Ghimire · regulation

Press censorship is a common occurrence in many parts of the world, but one does not associate a democratic nation in middle of Europe to go this route. Well, Hungary...

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13 September 2010

Telefónica Spain and Net Neutrality

Written by Juan Arellano · regulation

Spanish Bloggers are once again discussing net neutrality, but this time the focus is not on the Google-Verizon´s agreement and their policy offer in the U.S, but on something much...

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17 August 2010

Spaniard bloggers react to the Google-Verizon proposed policy

Written by Juan Arellano · Advocacy, regulation

Spaniard bloggers have been very busy discussing and arguing about the recent Google-Verizon proposed policy for an open Internet. Most of them are against it because they consider it a...

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21 July 2009

Azerbaijan: Appeal of bloggers rejected ahead of National Media Day

Written by Ali S. Novruzov · activism, Arrest and Harassment

On 20th of July, Baku Court of Appeals was going to consider the cases of Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, two youth activists and bloggers recently beaten and detained in...

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