[Ecommerce] European Digital Rights launches

[Manon Ress]

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25712.html

European Digital Rights launches 
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 13/06/2002 at 14:09 GMT

Ten European Net privacy and freedom groups have banded together to form
an international civil rights group. 

Called European Digital Rights (EDRi), the new organisation will be
based in Brussels, where it will "focus its activities towards
developments in the European Union and the Council of Europe". This is
necessary, because rulings on privacy and interception are coming more
and at an EU, and the introduction of new civil rights-threatening
regulation is coming at an increasing pace, the group says. 

EDRi will also act as an umbrella under which "existing European privacy
and freedoms organisations work together in raising awareness of policy
makers and the public about the upcoming threats to our privacy and
freedoms". 

Its remit includes: data retention requirements, telecommunications
interception, the cyber-crime treaty, initiatives for rating and
filtering of internet content, notice and takedown procedures of
websites and fair use restrictions. 

European Digital Rights founding members 
Bits of Freedom (Netherlands) 
Chaos Computer Club (CCC, Germany) 
Digital Rights (Denmark) 
Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFi, Finland), 
Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR, UK) 
Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG, Germany) 
Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire (IRIS, France) 
Privacy International (UK) 
Quintessenz (Austria) 
Verein für Internet-Benutzer (VIBE!AT, Austria) ®

See: http://www.edri.org/cgi-bin/index?funktion=home
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