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| 30.07.2024 | Surveillance in the City of Light: The AI Watchdogs of Paris 2024 | As the world turns its gaze to Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games, the city is not just a stage for athletic prowess. It has transformed into a fortress, fortified by a digital army of surveillance technology. The streets are lined with barri... |
| 26.07.2024 | At the Olympics, AI is watching you | Enlarge / Police observe the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 22, 2024.
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On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony, Paris is a city swamped in security. ... |
| 26.07.2024 | Paris 2024: IA vê câmeras ao vivo e detecta atitudes suspeitas | Empresa garante que uso de IA na análise de câmeras de segurança só avaliará ações, não dados biométricos ou pessoais (Imagem: Vitor Pádua / Tecnoblog)
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| 07.06.2024 | Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important | A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about an extremely important case that was being considered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s top court. The central question was whether the judges considered that copyright was... |
| 30.04.2024 | CJEU Gives File-Sharer Surveillance & Data Retention a Green Light | As part of anti-piracy scheme featuring warning letters, fines, and ISP disconnections, France has monitored and stored data on millions of internet users since 2010.
Digital rights groups insist that as a general surveillance and data rete... |
| 06.09.2023 | France’s Surveillance Plans For 2024 Olympics Raise Privacy Concerns | PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 13: The unveiling of the Olympic rings on the esplanade of Trocadero in ... [+] front of the Eiffel tower after the official announcement of the attribution of the Olympic Games 2024 to the city of Paris. (Photo by... |
| 19.05.2023 | Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens’ Fundamental Rights | When the French government formed a new anti-piracy agency called Hadopi, the mission was to significantly disrupt BitTorrent and similar peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
Hadopi was a pioneer of the so-called “graduated response” scheme ... |
| 03.08.2021 | Amazon fined heavily for violating GDPR by using unconsented data for ad targeting | The news: Amazon has been fined €746 million ($850.6 million) for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules on using personal data to target ads, according to a disclosure statement from an Amazon SEC filing.
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| 30.07.2021 | EU hits Amazon with record-breaking $887M GDPR fine over data misuse | Luxembourg’s National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) has hit Amazon with a record-breaking €746 million ($887 million) GDPR fine over the way it uses customer data for targeted advertising purposes.
Amazon disclosed the ruling in an ... |
| 26.06.2020 | Privacy Questions Raised By Distance Learning | A Case Study in an edTech app |
| 10.06.2020 | Interoperability And Privacy: Squaring The Circle | Not long ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its data so that users could control their experience on the service, making it easier for competing services... |
| 19.05.2020 | French Government Passes Hate Speech Law, Will Allow Law Enforcement To Run The Internet | Whatever ills there are in the world, the French government is pretty sure American tech companies should solve them. Or, at the very least, agree to be punished for failing to prevent the unpreventable. |
| 14.05.2020 | France Has a New Law That Mandates Social Media Giants to Delete Extremist Contents or Pay a Fine | Nhx Tingson, Tech Times 14 May 2020, 07:05 am
Social media are often used to connect to friends and families, but these platforms are filled with extremist contents these days that promote terrorism, pedophilia, hate, aggravated insults, an... |
| 10.10.2019 | New French Mandate Will Use Facial Recognition App To Create 'Secure Digital IDs' | Facial recognition tech is considered at least mildly controversial in the United States. Certain federal agencies (like the DHS) are pushing for widespread deployment even as Congress members are raising questions about the tech’s accuracy... |
| 10.10.2019 | New French Mandate Will Use Facial Recognition App To Create 'Secure Digital IDs' | Facial recognition tech is considered at least mildly controversial in the United States. Certain federal agencies (like the DHS) are pushing for widespread deployment even as Congress members are raising questions about the tech's accuracy... |
| 09.04.2019 | European Parliament Moves Forward With 'Terrorist Content' Regulation That Will Lead To Massive Internet Censorship | Last week we wrote (not for the first time) about the really dreadful Terrorist Content Regulation making its way through the EU regulatory process. As we noted, this is Article 13 on steroids. Everything that’s bad about Article 13 is wors... |
| 14.12.2018 | EU Members Approve Upload Filters for “Terrorist Content” | The ‘upload filters’ topic has been widely debated in the European Parliament this year.
While most attention has been focused on copyright-infringing material and Article 13, another filtering discussion has been going on at the same time.... |
| 25.09.2018 | France records big jump in privacy complaints since GDPR | Another European data protection agency has reported a sharp rise in the numbers of complaints since the EU updated its privacy framework four months ago, when GDPR came into force, updating regional data protection rules and introducing mu... |
| 10.03.2017 | Civil Liberties Groups Point Out More Reasons Why The 'Privacy Shield' Framework For Transatlantic Data Flows Is At Risk | Earlier this year, we wrote about growing concerns that President Trump’s executive order stripping those who are not US citizens of certain rights under the Privacy Act could have major consequences for transatlantic data flows. Now two le... |
| 22.11.2015 | France's Extended State of Emergency: What New Powers Did the Government Get? | Yesterday, French President François Hollande signed into law a bill that extends the state of emergency for three months and expands the government’s already broad police powers. Passed in haste, the law avoided a preliminary constitutiona... |
| 20.11.2015 | France Responds To Paris Attacks By Rushing Through Internet Censorship Law | The attacks in Paris were a horrible and tragic event — and you can understand why people are angry and scared about it. But, as always, when politicians are angry and scared following a high-profile tragedy, they tend to legislate in dange... |
| 26.10.2015 | Why Europe’s net neutrality plan is more controversial than US rules | An EU flag at the European Parliament.
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| 19.03.2015 | France considers bill to force tech and telecom companies to report potential terrorism activity | France is about to become the epicenter of the debate between privacy and security thanks to a new terrorism bill scheduled to be introduced today.
The proposal, if it becomes law, would require technology and telecommunications companies t... |
| 24.02.2015 | Digital Rights Group And ISPs Bring Legal Challenge Against New French Surveillance Law | As we’ve been reporting, seemingly hopeless legal challenges to UK surveillance have already notched up two wins, and revealed previously secret details about what has been going on. Now the French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net ... |
| 10.02.2015 | How The Great Firewall Of China Caused A DDOS Attack In France | Many people outside China know about the country’s Great Firewall, but probably assume it will have little, if any, impact on their own online activities. However, a fascinating post on Benjamin Sonntag’s blog explains how one of the server... |
| 10.02.2015 | French Government Can Now Ask ISPs To Block Sites With Terrorist-Related, Child Pornography Contents | Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 10 February 2015, 06:02 am
The French government published in the country's Official Journal a decree that will require ISPs to block sites that contain or support acts of terrorism and child pornography.
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| 09.02.2015 | France issues new rules requiring ISPs to block child porn and terrorism websites | Under terms of a new decree adopted by the French government, Internet service providers must block any websites that promote terrorism or child pornography within 24 hours of receiving an official notification.
The new rules have been unde... |
| 06.01.2015 | Global Moves To Give Corporations Yet More Legal Weapons By Strengthening Laws Protecting Trade Secrets | Techdirt often discusses the problems with intellectual monopolies such as copyrights, patents and trademarks. These grant powers to exclude others from using something — creative works, inventions, words and phrases. Increasingly, they cre... |
| 06.01.2014 | Study: File Sharing Leads To More, Not Fewer, Musical Hits Being Written | As Techdirt has noted many times, much of the debate around filesharing is driven by dogma rather than data. That’s beginning to change, although there has been a natural tendency to concentrate on economic issues: that is, whether fileshar... |
| 23.10.2013 | EU Data Protection Proposal Gets Stronger, But With Big Loopholes | One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection. Because of its potential impact on major US companies like Google and Facebook, this has become one of the most fought... |
| 12.02.2013 | How Lobbyists' Changes To EU Data Protection Regulation Were Copied Word-For-Word Into Proposed Amendments | Everyone knows that politicians are lobbied, sometimes massively. But it’s rare to be able to track directly the detailed effects of that lobbying. That’s why a new site called LobbyPlag is so interesting: it allows people to do precisely t... |
| 05.02.2013 | EU Commission Wants More Copyright Licensing, But Not Creative Commons Or Fair Use | While there’s no doubt that copyright licensing is a mess that is often holding back key innovations online, it’s a bit worrisome to hear about how the EU Commission is exploring the issue. It has set up a “Licenses for Europe” campaign, bu... |
| 23.01.2013 | France, Cradle Of 'Three Strikes' Punishment, Explores Another Bad Idea: Killing Net Neutrality | Not content with giving the world the “three strikes” approach to copyright enforcement, France has recently shown signs of wanting to undermine one of the Internet’s foundations: net neutrality. This has come about as a consequence of the ... |
| 29.11.2012 | Outdated European Copyright Levy System Descends Further Into Disarray | A couple of months ago, Ben Zevenbergen explained how the Dutch Supreme Court was finding it difficult to reconcile different aspects of Europe’s copyright rules. At the heart of the problem is the copyright levy system, effectively a tax o... |
| 15.11.2012 | RIAA Prefers Customers Who Buy A Little To Pirates Who Buy A Lot | Some weeks ago, we published a lengthy blog post called Where do Music Collections Come From? which discussed findings from our Copy Culture survey of 1000 Germans and 2300 Americans. |
| 16.10.2012 | Shocker! P2P services lead people to buy more music | People with more downloaded music also the ones most likely to buy it legally
Remember back in the Napster days, when there were reports of the music industry actually suing people for downloading music illegally? There was a cartoon in a m... |
| 12.10.2012 | But Of Course: Ridiculous ACTA Provisions Magically Appear In CETA | There were plenty of rumors (and leaks) earlier this year about how, even after European protests effectively killed ACTA in the EU, it was clear that some of the worst, most outrageous parts of ACTA had been written into CETA, a similar ag... |
| 26.06.2012 | EU Parlamentarian Gallo: ACTA Dissent 'A Soft Form Of Terrorism' | Marielle Gallo is probably best known for the Gallo Report, which Techdirt described back in 2010 as a “similarly draconian intellectual property enforcement” to ACTA, with which it has much in common. So it’s no surprise that Gallo has bee... |
| 30.03.2012 | If ACTA Is So Great, Where Are All The Supporters Extolling Its Virtues? | One of the striking features of the ACTA debate is the deafening silence from those who are in favor of it. Maybe that’s down to the SOPA effect: companies and organizations are frightened of being associated with such an unpopular idea. Of... |
| 28.03.2012 | EU Parliament Won't Wait For EU Court Of Justice To Vote On ACTA | With the clear momentum in the EU moving against ACTA, the supporters of the treaty in the EU Commission (who negotiated the deal) began to worry that the EU Parliament might move to reject ACTA completely at the vote planned for June. So t... |
| 13.03.2012 | European Commission Blames Social Networks For ACTA Failure; Worried About Its Imminent Directive On Copyright Enforcement | Now that the EU’s ratification of ACTA has departed from the original script of everyone just waving it through, the European Commission is clearly trying to come up with Plan B. Some insights into its thinking can be gained from the minute... |
| 16.02.2012 | EU Court Of Justice Says Social Networks Can't Be Forced To Be Copyright Cops | A few months back we noted that the European Court of Justice had ruled that ISPs couldn’t be required to set up a filtering system designed to catch copyright infringement. The case involved Belgian anti-piracy organization/collection agen... |
| 14.02.2012 | EU Official Who Resigned Over ACTA Details Why ACTA Is Dangerous; While His Replacement Seems Unlikely To Care | Last month, we noted that, Kader Arif, the ACTA rapporteur — or the guy in charge of “investigating” ACTA for the EU Parliament — had resigned in disgust over the fact that the EU was moving forward with ACTA. He noted that he was denouncin... |
| 26.01.2012 | European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA | This is interesting. Kader Arif, the “rapporteur” for ACTA, has quit that role in disgust over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA. A rapporteur is a person “appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue.” However... |
| 18.01.2012 | SOPA blackout spreads across the Internet | reader comments 80 with 67 posters participating
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| 11.07.2011 | ISPs, Academics and Citizens Oppose EU Anti-Piracy Legislation | Over the past several years many stringent anti-piracy treaties and directives have been proposed in the European Union and abroad, usually as a result of pro-copyright lobbying efforts.
The “IPR Enforcement Directive” (IPRED) falls into th... |
| 30.06.2011 | OECD Supports Making ISPs Copyright Cops | On the whole, the OECD has been pretty good about recognizing both the importance of freedom and openness of communications online and how certain industries have sought to use questionable claims and stats to push for protectionism. So, ea... |
| 16.06.2011 | French Government Looks To Create Great Firewall Of France | It was just a few weeks ago that Nicolas Sarkozy brought together a bunch of techies at the e-G8 to tell them that he wanted to start regulating the internet much more seriously. Apparently, he’s not wasting much time. There’s a draft execu... |
| 27.05.2011 | Defending Innovation and Net Neutrality at eG8 [Video] | At the eG8, 20th century ideas clashed with the 21st century economy. The inaugural eG8 forum, held in Paris before the G-8 summit of global leaders, showed that online innovation and freedom of expression still need strong defenders. As Na... |
| 25.05.2011 | Sarkozy's Attempt To Woo The Digerati Foreshadows The Coming Conflict Between Technology & Regulations | There’s been a lot of talk about the e-G8 Conference this week, which was an attempt to bring together technology and internet leaders with government officials. The idea, apparently, was for government officials to convince the digerati th... |
| 14.02.2011 | France The Latest Country To Approve Internet Censorship | It appears that France is the latest country to approve plans to censor the internet. The excuse is pretty much the same as Russia’s: focus on child pornography first, but leave out the fact that the same rules can be used to censor any con... |
| 04.02.2011 | Leaked State Department Cables Confirm That ACTA Was Designed To Pressure Developing Nations | The site La Quadrature Du Net has a rather comprehensive look at a series of leaked State Department cables that confirm what many people said from the beginning about ACTA: that it was designed by US special interests as an “end run” aroun... |
| 17.01.2011 | European Commission Planning New, More Draconian 'Anti-Piracy' Laws | This is hardly surprising, but the European Commission is currently discussing “IPRED 2,” its latest attempt to craft pro-Hollywood laws concerning copyright infringement. As in the past, these are incredibly broad and conflate a variety of... |
| 22.10.2010 | Leaked Letter Exposes Sarkozy’s Repressive Anti-Piracy Agenda | For years, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been at the forefront of the war against Internet piracy. Earlier this year he booked a major victory when he got Hadopi, his three-strikes anti-piracy bill, signed into law.
Under France’s ne... |
| 22.10.2010 | Sarkozy Wants To Use Anti-Censorship Conference To Promote Censorship By Copyright | We’ve pointed out many times how copyright is, by its nature, a law for censorship. Now, you can argue that it’s necessary or useful censorship (though, I doubt I would agree), but it cannot be denied that the basic purpose of copyright law... |
| 23.09.2010 | Anti-Pirates List Dead and Pre-Teen Artists as Petition Signatories | In recent years pro-copyright lobbyists have pushed governments worldwide to adopt harsher anti-piracy legislation, and yesterday they booked another significant victory. With 328 votes in favor, 245 against and 81 abstentions, the controve... |
| 21.09.2010 | European Parliament Votes on Controversial Anti-Piracy Report | In recent years pro-copyright lobbyists have pushed governments worldwide to adopt harsher anti-piracy legislation. Thus far they’ve booked several successes, with the controversial trade agreement ACTA as the most important victory. But th... |
| 09.09.2010 | Europe says 'No' again to ACTA secrecy | This morning from Brussels, the European Parliament issued a
formal declaration - its second official legal statement of the
season - calling upon participants in negotiations for the global
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement to share the ... |
| 07.09.2010 | EU Parliament Rejects ACTA: Will It Matter? | A bunch of folks have been letting us know that a majority of European Members of Parliament have signed a declaration against ACTA, making it official EU policy. The document has them rejecting not just the anti-transparency involved in AC... |
| 19.08.2010 | French Net Neutrality is on Death Row | A recently leaked report [PDF] from France’s State Secretary of Digital Economy reveals the government’s efforts to deeply bury net neutrality for this country. This is the latest episode in an ongoing attempt to control the Internet. The f... |
| 14.07.2010 | If Negotiators Still Don't Want To Release ACTA, It'll Still Get Leaked | So, we now know for certain that the ACTA negotiators’ promise of “transparency” over negotiations was an outright lie. They fought it every step of the way, falsely claiming that if the draft were public, some members would leave the table... |
| 03.07.2010 | UK Rejects ACTA Calls To Criminalize Illicit File-Sharing | A leaked ACTA document published by citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net revealed the intention to introduce criminal sanctions into the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for file-sharing offenses.
The ACTA Chapter 2 Crimina... |
| 25.06.2010 | EU Pushing For Criminalizing Non-Commercial Infringement In ACTA | The latest news coming out of ACTA negotiations (latest round in Switzerland) is that the EU is apparently pushing to include criminal sanctions even for non-commercial infringement. Apparently, part of the language suggests “imprisonment a... |
| 24.03.2010 | Full ACTA Draft Leaked… EU Wants Injunctions Against The Possibility You Might Infringe | As a whole bunch of folks have been submitting, the text of a recent draft of ACTA has been leaked (pdf). It didn’t take long for some to convert the entire document to text, so that it can be analyzed and discussed more easily. Lots of fol... |
| 14.01.2010 | The Google Tax: Hiding The Real Threats to French Democracy | French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently announced the so-called Google tax, which would tax online advertising revenues and then use the money to help “legal music platforms.” The tax was, among a few other ideas, suggested by a committee... |
| 13.07.2009 | How many strikes will France's HADOPI 'three strikes' law get? | If only the French government had had this much determination against the Nazis. The French Senate last week once again passed a version of the HADOPI online copyright infringement bill, this time adding a step after the three accusations i... |
| 06.05.2009 | EU Rejects Three-Strikes Legislation, For Good | For the fifth time in a year the European Parliament has spoken out against tougher anti-piracy legislation that would allow alleged file-sharers to be disconnected from the Internet, based on evidence provided by anti-piracy lobby groups. ... |
| 27.04.2009 | Swedish ISPs Obstruct New Anti-Piracy Legislation | The controversial Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) has gathered opposition from various sides, most notably half of the Swedish public. The law, which gives rights holders the authority to request the personal deta... |
| 01.02.2009 | EU Plots Pirate Bay Ban and Piracy Clampdown | The proposals in the report, drafted by the 73 year old Spanish socialist Manuel Medina Ortega, show many similarities to the wish lists of the RIAA, IFPI and MPAA we published earlier. The report calls for more responsibility and liability... |
| 25.09.2008 | European Parliament Says No to Three-Strikes Law | The power of anti-piracy lobbyists has grown significantly across Europe this year. In the UK, six major ISPs are working together with the music industry to start mass warning file-sharers. France has gone even further, and proposed a law ... |
| - | Amazon fined heavily for violating GDPR by using unconsented data for ad targeting | The news: Amazon has been fined €746 million ($850.6 million) for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules on using personal data to target ads, according to a disclosure statement from an Amazon SEC filing.
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