As we feared last Monday, European Parliament has just adopted a Report pushing for the outsourcing of Web censorship to Facebook and Google, using the pretext of the fight against terrorism.
On the 12 December, the European Parliament will vote on the “Report on findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on Terrorism”. If adopted, this text would not be legally binding but would recommend the…
We have never seen an European Regulation adopted this quickly by European governments. As European elections are getting closer, Macron has convinced them to use the everlasting terrorism pretext. Censorship and mass surveillance of the…
61 NGOs, professionals, hosting services and non profit Internet access providers ask Emmanuel Macron to renounce to its European Regulation project to censor the whole Web for dubious security reasons.
The analysis of the future Regulation makes us fear that it will impose mass surveillance and automated censorship to messaging services. Those offering end-to-end encryption would be forced to renounce or to close down.
Two months ago, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on terrorist censorship. We denounced it, explaining that this project would destroy the entire decentralized Web. Since then, we have met the French…
12 September 2018 – This morning, as everybody was looking at the Copyright Directive adoption, the EU Commission released a proposal for a Regulation on the censorship of terrorist propaganda.
This proposal would impose new…
Op-ed by Lunar, member of La Quadrature du Net
Op-ed by Taziden, member of La Quadrature du Net
On 20 June, searches were carried outPolice searches homes of “Zwiebelfreunde“ board members as well as „OpenLab“ in Augsburg, ccc.de, 04/07/2018 ; Coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde at…
4 July 2018 – Tomorrow, the whole European Parliament will vote on the new Copyright Directive. Two weeks ago, Parliament’s “Legal Affairs” Committee has adopted a first text, forcing commercial platforms to actively block copyright-protected…