Europe
ONI Blog: Promoting Freedom of Expression, Council of Europe-Style
In a recent meeting, the Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee of Ministers adopted a set of recommendations for European states on digital content. "Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on promoting freedom of expression...
- Posted on 11/Oct/2007; tagged in Europe
ONI Blog: EU interior ministers discuss on proposals to sanction or block Web sites
EU is moving to build online barriers to Internet sites spreading “terrorist propaganda” and bomb-making recipes. The governments are pressing for adopting strong security measures against terrorism or activities that aim at facilitating crime, while critics caution that some of the...
- Posted on 09/Oct/2007; tagged in Europe
ONI Blog: EU interior ministers discuss on proposals to sanction or block Web sites
EU is moving to build online barriers to Internet sites spreading “terrorist propaganda” and bomb-making recipes. The governments are pressing for adopting strong security measures against terrorism or activities that aim at facilitating crime, while critics caution that some of the...
- Posted on 09/Oct/2007; tagged in Europe
ONI Blog: Filtering Proposed by EC Justice and Security Commissioner
It was recently reported that European Commission Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini is interested in finding ways to filter the Internet for terrorism-oriented activities, including searches for them.
In an interview with Reuters, Frattini stated, “I do intend to carry...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2007; tagged in Europe, Surveillance
ONI Blog: Belgian ISP appeals anti-piracy injunction mandating filtering
The ISP Scarlet (formerly Tiscali SA) has appealed a Belgian court’s order to implement a filtering mechanism as part of granting an injunction against music piracy. On June 29, 2007, the Brussels Court of First Instance (decision available here) ordered...
- Posted on 31/Jul/2007; tagged in Europe, Arrests and legal action
ONI Blog: Blogpost: The Great Firewall of Norway
Blogger Gunnar Helliesen has posted the following to his blog, luni.net.
The Great Firewall of Norway
Published February 13th, 2007 in Politics and Censorship.
My country is going off the deep end.
A Computer Crime Panel study group established by the Norwegian...
ONI Blog: Danish ISP Filters Child Porn
An ISP in Denmark, TDC, is using Internet filtering (developed with the national police and the non-governmental organization Save the Children) to block child pornography. This follows similar efforts in Britain (British Telecom's CleanFeed)....
- Posted on 01/Nov/2005; tagged in Europe
ONI Blog: Search Engines Agree to Filter Content in Germany
Urs Gasser, a fellow at the Berkman Center, reports that major search engines such as MSN, Google, and Yahoo! agreed to filter content considered "harmful to minors" in Germany. He points out that the search engines cannot reveal the list of...
- Posted on 10/Mar/2005; tagged in Europe
