Press review
The press review catalogues press articles related to la Quadrature's issues, compiled by its volunteers.
See also our French press review.
[RFI] La Quadrature's reaction to the recommendations of the Lescure Report
Interview of Jérémie Zimmerman, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, released on 19 May 2013 on RFI about the recommendations of the Lescure Report.
[Techdirt] EU Commission Sued For Refusing To Reveal Trade Agreement Documents They Shared With Lobbyists
A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the lack of transparency when international agreements and treaties are being drawn up. That's increasingly recognized not just as problematic, but simply unacceptable in an age when the Internet makes it easy to provide both access to draft documents and a way for the public to offer comments on them. […]
The European court will be handing down its verdict on 7 June. If the judges side with transparency, it could have a major impact on how the imminent TAFTA/TTIP negotiations between the EU and US are conducted. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/09430123119/eu-commission-sue...
[Wired] Australia's unannounced 'totalitarian' web filter causes alarm
Australia's government is under fire after it appears to have introduced web censorship without warning, expanding already-controversial powers to block access to child pornography into a wider web filtering system. [...]
The fact that government ministries are now able to ask ISPs to take down sites without any kind of legal or regulatory oversight has, unsurprisingly, angered a lot of opposition politicians. Australian Greens senator Scott Ludlam told the Australian Financial Review: "It's extraordinarily difficult to find who has issued these notices and on behalf of whom, for what categories of content, or what you do if you find yourself on a block list. We've got a very serious problem and it's not at all clear whether the government knows what it's actually doing." [...]
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/australia-internet-block
[Guardian] Will giving the internet eyes and ears mean the end of privacy?
The internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We're constantly monitored on the internet by hundreds of companies -- both familiar and unfamiliar. Everything we do there is recorded, collected, and collated – sometimes by corporations wanting to sell us stuff and sometimes by governments wanting to keep an eye on us. [...]
You'd think that your privacy settings would keep random strangers from learning everything about you, but it only keeps random strangers who don't pay for the privilege – or don't work for the government and have the ability to demand the data. Power is what matters here: you'll be able to keep the powerless from invading your privacy, but you'll have no ability to prevent the powerful from doing it again and again. [...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/16/internet-of-things-priv...
[Delimiter] Interpol filter scope creep: ASIC ordering unilateral website blocks
The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for other government agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable in their own portfolios. [...]
The Australian public overwhelmingly rejected the Labor Federal Government’s previous attempt at a universal Internet filter. Now that filter is back: But it’s on questionable legal ground, it’s being done behind closed doors by anonymous public servants (remind you of the data retention process?), it’s already resulting in massive false positives and there’s no notification or appeals mechanism. Wonderful. But then again, don’t we trust the Government? Don’t we?
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/15/interpol-filter-scope-creep-asic-orde...
[ZDNet] No piracy watchdog, a tablet tax and free software: France's vision of culture in the digital age
A study commissioned last summer to find how to protect France's "exception culturelle" in the online era has delivered its verdict - and it's generating its fair share of criticism already. [...]
In a statement, the French internet advocacy group La Quadrature du Net also acknowledged that the mission Lescure had a few interesting ideas ,but added that: "When it comes to concrete proposals regarding sharing of cultural works on the internet, [the report] quickly gives in to the arguments of the content distribution industry. The proposals are carbon copies of the policies suggested by the corresponding industry lobbies." [...]
http://www.zdnet.com/no-piracy-watchdog-a-tablet-tax-and-free-software-f...
[PCWorld] Specter of ACTA hangs over TTIP negotiations
Intellectual property (IP) should be left out of current trade negotiations with the U.S. and a deal should not be reached in secret, European civil liberties representatives advised the European Commission's trade department Wednesday. [...]
Meanwhile, Joe McNamee of EDRi argued that the Commission would be shooting itself in the foot by resisting transparency, as much of the public would then automatically assume it had something to hide, even if 70 percent of the proposals were good. "I don't see the value of non-transparency. In fact it could kill TTIP just as effectively as it killed ACTA," said McNamee. [...]
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2038802/specter-of-acta-hangs-over-ttip-n...
[Netzpolitik] [DE] Three-Strikes in Frankreich: Hadopi ist tot, lang lebe der CSA!
Am Montag wurde der langerwartete Bericht Lescure (fr) veröffentlicht, über den wir bereits hier berichteten. Der ehemalige Chef von Canal+ macht nun in über 700 Seiten 80 Vorschläge, um Frankreich’s Kampf gegen Urheberrechtsverletzungen effektiver zu gestalten. [...]
“Ziel ist es, eine privatisierte Zensur im Namen des Kampfes gegen Urheberrechtsverletzungen einzuführen, wie zum Beispiel Filter und Sperr-Mechanismen. Da es jedoch nach europäischem Recht illegal wäre, solche Maßnahmen rechtsverbindlich zu machen, möchte Pierre Lescure sie jetzt durch Softlaw, Vertragsrecht oder Drohungen an Unternehmen durchsetzen” erklärt Jérémie Zimmermann, Sprecher der Quadrature du Net. [...]
https://netzpolitik.org/2013/three-strikes-in-frankreich-hadopi-ist-tot-...
[TheInquirer] France could drop three strikes copyright law
France's controversial three strikes copyright rules could be going the way of its aristocracy's heads. [...]
Protest group La Quadrature du Net called the announcement of the death of Hadopi "misleading".
"The announcement of the suppression of the Hadopi is misleading: its missions are redistributed to other entities (CSA), with the exception of the never-applied internet cut-off, and even completed by new monitoring or repressive competence. It hides the pursuit of Nicolas Sarkozy's anti-sharing policies," said Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net. [...]
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2267879/france-could-drop-three...
[BBC] Should Google pay for the internet?
Governments should treat all data on the internet the same according to the principle of net neutrality. But in reality that is not the case - not just in North Korea or China but even in the US and the UK.
David Reid looks at the how the debate is shaping up in France, where one provider cut off users from some Google content, and what neutrality means in a world wide web filled with worldwide corporations.
