Showing posts with label european parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label european parliament. Show all posts
03 March 2019

This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP

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As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...
24 April 2016

TTIP Is Dying; Here's How to Help Finish It Off

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TTIP is dying : According to the research, "In the United States [today], opinion is split, with 15 percent in favour [of TTIP] and...
23 November 2013

European Privacy Lost - and How to Get it Back

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At the beginning of this year, I discussed a report written for the European Parliament, which warned that the US legal framework allow...
26 October 2013

Urgent: Please Contact MEPs Now for Spying/TAFTA Vote

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As you will have noticed, European politicians have suddenly become rather interested in the revelations about NSA spying now that it seem...

Controversial EU Data Protection Regulation May Be Negotiated In Secret In Breach Of Parliamentary Process

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Today, the European Parliament held a three-hour long debate on PRISM, Tempora and what the EU response should be. Many wanted TAFTA/TTI...
20 July 2013

Software Patents Storming Up the Agenda Again

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As regular readers of this column will know, software patents have never really gone away, even though the European Patent Convention fo...
31 March 2013

Why the Unitary Patent Will Harm European Innovation

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Regular readers of this column will know that I am not overly enamoured of the European Patent Office, since it has effectively introduc...

Is This What Google Really Thinks About Privacy?

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I've been writing quite a lot about the current Data Protection regulation that is being considered in the European Parliament. As I...

What the EU Pornography Ban is Really About

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It began last week, with an article by the Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström, who wrote about a vote that will take place in the Europ...

European Parliament Considers Banning All Pornography, Blocks Emails From EU Citizens Protesting Against Censorship

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A few weeks ago we wrote about Iceland's thoroughly daft idea of trying to block porn there. Bad proposals for the Internet always ...
10 March 2013

EU Data Protection: Please Write to MEPs Now

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Last week I wrote about the revelation (to me, at least - maybe other people knew this was going on) that MEP s were simply cutting and ...
09 March 2013

How Lobbyists' Changes To EU Data Protection Regulation Were Copied Word-For-Word Into Proposed Amendments

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Everyone knows that politicians are lobbied, sometimes massively. But it's rare to be able to track directly the detailed effects of...
06 January 2013

Still Time to Avert the EU Unitary Patent Disaster

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Today, the European Parliament votes on the Unitary Patent. As I explained yesterday, what is being presented is something of a botch, ...

Help Avoid the EU Unitary Patent Disaster

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I've been writing about the attempt to craft a Unitary Patent in Europe for some years. The idea in itself is not bad: a patent that...
03 September 2012

EU Wants to Sneak in a Mini-ACTA by the Backdoor

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Even after ACTA was rejected by the European Parliament on 4 July this year, the European Commission was still refusing to admit that th...
15 July 2012

Help Stop Software Patents in Europe (Again)

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the danger that the Unitary Patent would usher in software patents to Europe. The proposal was supp...

EU Directive On Orphan Works So Bad It Makes Things Worse

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Orphan works (or maybe that should be " hostage works ") have become a really hot area in the copyright debate. That's beca...

So We Won on ACTA Yesterday: Now What?

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Well, we did it: ACTA was resoundingly defeated in the European Parliament yesterday by 478 votes to 39, with 165 abstentions. That...

European Parliament Declares Its Independence From The European Commission With A Massive Rejection Of ACTA. Now What?

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In a plenary vote today, the European Parliament has rejected ACTA by 478 votes to 39 , with 165 abstentions. That followed a failed attem...

ACTA: Last-Minute Appeal to EPP Group

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If you watched the stream of the plenary session in the European Parliament yesterday, you will know that what we saw was an incredible p...