Who wants to control the internet ? How the Medina report and the Telecom package can affect the internet
http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/default/dok/270/270613.who_wants_to_control_the_internet@en.htm
Hearing
European Parliament – Brussels
Wednesday 18 February 2009 – 16:30-18:30
European Parliament – Room Petra Kelly ASP01G2
60, Rue Wiertz…
Paris, Feb.16th – Amendments in the European Parliament to the “Telecoms Package” Revision of five directives regulating electronic communication networks in Europe. More infos : http://www.laquadrature.net/Telecoms_Package may allow operators to take control of their customer’s…
Civil liberties groups La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi) and AK Vorrat are urging the European Parliament to heed advice given by the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx and scrap plans dubbed…
Paris, Jan 26th – The European Parliament’s committee for legal affairs (JURI) voted the Medina report on Copyright last week. This report goes against its initial objective of responding to the Green Paper on Copyright…
Jeremie Zimmermann, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net was interviewed by Netzpolitik. This 40-minute interview talks about the French initiative about “graduated response”, about the Telecom Package, and what can be done about it, especially…
Paris, January 19th. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released his opinion on the current state of the Telecoms Package. His views on the ePrivacy directive confirms La Quadrature’s analysis: If nothing is done, article…
La Quadrature just sent a letter to the Members of European Parliament, rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs on the “Telecoms Package”, who are meeting these days for preparing the second reading.
Some provisions of the text agreed…
Paris, November 27th 2008 − The EU Council reached a political agreement on the telecommunication reform (“Telecoms Package”) on Thursday, Nov. 27th. On one hand, crucial modifications to the text finally doom Nicolas Sarkozy’s project…
La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) has submitted on 26 November 2008 its comments on the Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy published by the European Commission.
Paris, November 20th 2008 − Essential rights and freedoms for Internet users are at stake. On November 27th, The Council of EU may open the door to an pan-european “graduated response” by removing Amendment 138,…