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EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 2.21, 3 November 2004 (EDRI-gram newsletter) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:00:52 +0100 (CET) From: "EDRI-gram newsletter" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 2.21, 3 November 2004 To: [log in to unmask] Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 ============================================================ EDRI-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 2.21, 3 November 2004 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. EDRI response to EU copyright consultation 2. EU governments want 2 biometric identifiers for every citizen 3. Big Brother Awards presented in Austria, Germany and Spain 4. Secret code added to most colour prints 5. Controversy over Czech wiretaps 6. EU Commission line-up before reshuffle 7. Source code review of Irish voting machines 8. NGOs criticise corporate influence in the EU 9. Privacy International condemns compulsory ID in NL 10. Armenian group demands take down website Turkish consulate 11. Call for participation: consultation on fundamental rights 12. Recommended reading 13. Agenda 14. About ============================================================ 1. EDRI response to EU copyright consultation ============================================================ In answer to a consultation from the European Commission on the review of copyright law EDRI, EDRI-member FIPR and the Vereniging Open-source Nederland have argued for higher standards of user rights. The response was endorsed by twenty organisations. In stead of deleting such provisions from older Directives such as 91/250 on Software, 92/100 on Rental and Lending Rights, 93/83 on Satellites and Cable, 93/98 on Terms of Protection, and 96/09 on Databases, the Commission should broaden the protection of user rights in the most recent Directive, 2001/29/EC, known as EUCD. This Directive is regarded by the EU Commission as the gold standard in the field of copyright and related rights. But this Directive is not as unproblematic as the EU Commission says, according to the response. There is a serious risk this Directive will be used to level down user rights that were granted in previous directives. For example the Software Directive contains a back-up copy provision. Industry has been lobbying to delete this right from this directive, in stead of importing it into the EUCD. In a likewise manner, EDRI would like to see the non-waivable right to an equitable remuneration exported from the Rental Right Directive to the EUCD. Most importantly perhaps, all the voluntary exceptions and limitations in Article 5 of the EUCD should become mandatory and further exceptions must be created to legitimise existing useful activities, such as using anti-virus software. The Software Directive must be extended so that companies seeking to build compatible products not just have the right to try to reverse-engineer interfaces, but also the right to sue platform vendors in national courts for the necessary interface data. In their joint response EDRI, FIPR and VOSN ask for a broader review of copyright law. The Commission should examine in depth all the current conflicts with competition, employment, environmental and consumer law. According to the statement, an important failure of the current copyright regime is that many copyrighted works are not available to the public, but locked in right holders' vaults. A possible solution for this problem is giving the creator the right to reclaim the copyright from the publisher when a work has been unavailable to the public for three years. The work should automatically become public domain after a further two years if the creator has not exercised this right. Another issue discussed in the statement is the EUCD's anti-circumvention provision. EDRI recommends that the abuse of a rights-management mechanism must void its legal protection, and should render copyrights protected by it unenforceable ("Abuse it and lose it"). The response comes to the conclusion that a Digital Rights Directive is needed to define the rights of consumers, and not just of copyright owners. On a global level something similar might be achieved by a WIPO treaty on access to technology and culture. As a first concrete step EDRI proposes a Digital Preservation Directive to enable Europe's libraries to protect our cultural heritage for the benefit of future generations. EU Commission consultation on the review of the EU acquis communautaire in the field of copyright and related rights (19.07.2004) http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/copyright/review/review_en.htm EDRI/FiPR/VOSN response to the consultation (31.10.2004) http://www.edri.org/campaigns/copyright (Contribution by Andreas Dietl, EDRI EU Affairs Director) ============================================================ 2. EU governments want 2 biometric identifiers for every citizen ============================================================ On 25 October 2004 Members of the Europarliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted on a proposal from the Council of Ministers to include a biometric identifier in EU passports and visas of travellers with EU destinations. While the MEPs were discussing the technical implications and privacy guarantees, behind their back the Council replaced the proposal by a more extreme proposal to include 2 biometric identifiers, instead of just one. According to the new Council proposal, member states have to include digitalised fingerprints and a face scan on the RFID chip embedded in the travel documents. Face scans will have to be included in travel documents 18 months after the Council regulations enter into force (Germany will already start issuing biometric passports at the end of 2005), fingerprints will follow 18 months later. Fingerprints as an additional identifier will subject 450 million EU citizens to a procedure presently reserved for crime suspects. The initiative for the proposal was taken by Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. It was opposed only by Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Sweden, while Germany and the United Kingdom are said to back an even more extreme proposal that would require iris scans as a third biometric identifier in travel documents. The new proposal is likely to be voted in the European Parliament early next year, but it is in the so-called consultation procedure, which means the Council can almost ignore the Parliament's vote. In the 25 October vote, the LIBE Committee has taken a 'moderate' position, voting in favour of all the amendments by Rapporteur Carlos Coelho, a Portuguese Conservative specialising in the EU's border regime. Coelho calls for a proportionate approach to biometrics, without calling for a moratorium on the technology. In an expert meeting on 6 October, the LIBE MEPs were advised to do so, because of the many privacy threats and unforeseeable social consequences of a large-scale introduction. Draft Council Regulation on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States (19.10.04) http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/oct/bio-13490.df.pdf Draft report by Carlos Coelho on the proposal for a Council Regulation on standards for security features and biometrics in EU citizens' passports (30.09.2004) http://www.europarl.eu.int/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/PR/543/543312/54 3312en.pdf Statewatch report, 'EU: Compulsory fingerprinting for all passports' (26.10.2004) http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/oct/10eu-biometrics-fp.htm EDRI-gram 2.19 'Biometrics experts sceptical about quick introduction' (06.10.2004) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number2.19/biometrics (Contribution by Andreas Dietl, EDRI EU Affairs Director) ============================================================ 3. Big Brother Awards presented in Austria, Germany and Spain ============================================================ Last week Big Brother Awards were presented in 3 different countries to a wide range of government officials, companies and institutions for violating privacy and promoting extensive control over citizens lives. Seville in Spain hosted the 50st BBA event held worldwide on 30 October 2004, 6 years since Privacy International invented the ceremony in London. The Spanish jury awarded Zara, a fashion clothing store chain belonging to giant Inditex, for using RFID chips in some of their products. The Spanish jury also awarded a price to the shadow-government ordering the confiscation of servers of Indymedia in London. Shadow-government because "unfortunately, we are still to be told who that government is." In Austria, a remarkable peoples price was awarded to the electric company of the city of Linz, for trying to stifle critics. Radio technicians discovered the powerline-technology could produce radio-interference. The technicians were not invited to discuss and help solve the issue, but sued for 'damage of credit', with a very intimidating demand for compensation of financial damages. On top of that a lawyer of the Linz Strom GmbH intervened in his role as member of the supervisory board of an Austrian media company to prevent the criticism from being spread. Another price winner in Austria was the Austrian company Hutchison for developing the tool '3Friendfinder', that enables the localisation of other GSM-users. The lifetime achievement award was renamed the 'Lifetime-Annoyance-Elisabeth-Gehrer-Prize', rewarding the efforts of the Minister of Education, Science and Culture to create a 1984-worthy immense database about all schoolchildren/students and storing these data for a period of 60 years. The education register contains many sensitive data about ethnicity, religion and income of the parents and detailed reports about absence. During a lecture in Luzern, Switzerland on 16 October, Andreas Krisch from Austrian EDRI-member VIBE!AT gave a presentation about this legislation, introduced in 2003. In the category politics, Austria wanted to reflect the European dimension of policy-making. The Award went to the responsible Ministers from Sweden, France, Ireland and England for their proposal for a Framework Decision regarding retention of telecommunications data. In Germany the Minister of Justice, Mrs Brigitte Zypries, received the Big Brother Award for pushing for snoopers legislation that allows for the bugging and tapping of private homes with the help of directional microphones and laser equipment. She seemed to ignore an important verdict of the German Constitutional Court of 3 March 2004, that severely restricted the possibility of state interference in the private home, when she launched a legal proposal that initially even enabled snooping on the homes of doctors, journalists and religious officials. Similar to the Austrian price-winner, in Germany the company Armex GmbH from Gladbeck was given the award for developing a GSM-based tracking service, called 'Track your Kid'. According to the German jury an important part of education is to teach children about the values of a free society. "Would such a society be able to understand and defend personal liberty rights if a large part of society is getting used to permanent surveillance from childhood onwards?" Another German Big Brother Award was presented to the supermarket chain Lidl, for exhaustive and sometimes barbaric control of their employees. The German BBA site quotes a large amount of incidents of firing employees without much reason, searching personal bags, clothes and cars, interrogating employees and secretly listening in on conversations in the lunchroom with the help of baby-phones. Lidl was also awarded the price for its operations abroad, not allowing employees in the Czech Republic to use the toilet during working time. Menstruating women were allowed to use the toilet in between, but to enjoy this privilege they were asked to wear a headband. On 10 December 2004 a black book on Lidl will be published, the international human rights day. At the German BBA ceremony a guest from the Czech Republic was represent, Filip Pospisil, who will be in the team organising Big Brother Awards in the Czech Republic for the first time next year. This will bring the number of BBA organising countries to 18. Spanish BBA Winners (30.10.2004) http://es.bigbrotherawards.org/en/ Austrian BBA Winners (26.10.2004) http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/2004/nominees/winners_en.php Lecture Andreas Krisch about the education register in Austria (16.10.2004) http://www.vibe.at/aktionen/200410/AKrisch_Datensammlung_at_20041016.pdf German BBA Winners (29.10.2004) http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/2004/ 'Black book' on Lidl (appears 10.12.2004) http://www.verdi.de/handel/einzelhandel/unternehmensinformationen/lidl ============================================================ 4. Secret code added to most colour prints ============================================================ While printer-manufacturer Canon was awarded a Big Brother Award in Germany for secretly adding a unique code to every print-out made on household printing equipment, the practice is very wide-spread. Many laser printers seem to print-out a unique number on every print-out, invisible to the bare eye, measuring only 0,1 millimetre. The Dutch police has admitted to e-zine Webwereld that they have used these marks to detect the sources of print-outs, tracing individual printers through the vendor chain. "We are familiar with this research method," said Ed Kraszewski of the Dutch national police agency KLPD. "We are using it in our research and it has proven to be successful in the past." Even though the spokesman would not give any further details on these successes, anonymous sources confirmed to Webwereld that the Dutch Railway Police, part of the KLPD, is investigating a gang that could be counterfeiting tickets on a large scale. Although modern printers are sold under many different brand names, the insides are very similar. Inside every machine is a print engine with a unique and traceable identity. These engines are produced by a handful companies, such as Toshiba Corp., Canon Inc. and Ricoh Co. Ltd. Members of the Dutch Parliament have raised the issue on 27 October with minister Brinkhorst of economical affairs, demanding he should publish a list of all the involved printer manufacturers, explain why this 'feature' is kept secret, and how he is encouraging the manufacturers to start a public awareness campaign. Dutch track counterfeits via printer serial numbers (25.10.2004) http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041025dutchprinter/ ============================================================ 5. Controversy over Czech wiretaps ============================================================ President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic has condemned a series of police telephone wiretaps as a 'scandalous' invasion of citizens' privacy after press reports stated that officers listened in on his telephone conversations with a businessman. Czech newspapers reported that police wiretapped entrepreneur Ranko Pecic, an old friend of Klaus, for four months until March 2004 and could overhear his talks with the president. President Klaus suggested that Jiri Kolar, president of the state police, should be sacked over his remarks on wiretapping. The police chief had said tapping into private conversations by the authorities should not bother people who are innocent. "I consider what is going on in this country to be really scandalous, and I believe that it is the task of us, all citizens ... who wish for freedom, to really fight against it," Klaus said. According to press reports police overheard Klaus' private talks with the head of one of the opposition parties. The party is under police scrutiny after claims that it tried to bribe a member of parliament to withhold backing for the Cabinet in a parliamentary vote of confidence in August. According to Czech media the country's police carries out the most wiretaps per capita in Europe. The figure of 100 wiretaps per 100.000 inhabitants is is said to be cited from a study by the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany. EDRI-gram reported previously about the report but it does not contain information about wiretaps in the Czech Republic. In the report Italy and the Netherlands top the chart with respectively 76 and 62 wiretaps per 100.000 inhabitants. The Prague Post: Police wiretaps infuriate president (28.10.2004) http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2004/Art/1028/news3.php BBC News: Czech leader in bugging 'scandal' (25.10.2004) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3951975.stm Italy and the Netherlands top wiretap chart (15.07.2004) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number214/wiretap ============================================================ 6. EU Commission line-up before reshuffle ============================================================ After the withdrawal of his first line-up on 26 October, the designated President of the European Commission, Josi Manuel Durrco Barroso, is expected to present a new team tomorrow (4 November), during the European Council meeting in Brussels. Two of the most controversial Commissioners-designate will not be part of the college Barroso is expected to present. Rocco Buttiglione, who was to become Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs, has withdrawn his candidature, while the Latvian government has withdrawn Ingrida Udre, whom Barroso had appointed to the taxation brief. While the government in Riga has already nominated Andris Piebalgs - a former Finance Minister and Ambassador to the EU - to replace Mrs. Udre, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi still keeps the replacement of Buttiglione secret. The odds are high that the new candidate will be the country's present Minister of Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini. Such a decision would however disturb the delicate balance within Italy's government coalition, where the right-wing regionalist Lega Nord is asking for more influence. A more elegant solution for Berlusconi would be to send his Education Minister Letizia Moratti, who has served him in many positions before and would have the additional advantage of keeping the Brussels Commission's woman quota at the same level as in Barroso's first line-up. In addition, Buttiglione would be qualified to take over Mrs. Moratti's Italian portfolio, which could help avoid major reshuffles of the Italian cabinet. It is uncertain that the new Italian Commissioner will keep the important Justice and Home Affairs brief. Barroso is said to consider the Greek Commissioner-designate for environment Stavros Dimas, who has come under criticism because of his country's poor transposition of EU environmental law, Mr. Dimas is a lawyer and has represented Greece's Conservative Nea Dimokratia party both in the Parliament, of which he has been a member since 1977, and in various ministerial posts, not involving Justice and Home Affairs (he was Minister of Trade in 1980 and 1981, Minister of Agriculture in 1989 and 1990 and Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology in 1990 and 1991). Other Commissioners criticised in the European Parliament hearings include the Netherland's Neelie Kroes, who was to take over Mario Monti's Competition portfolio but is said to have too many links to transnational companies; Hungary's Commissioner-designate for Energy Laszlo Kovacs, who's hearing was a disaster in which he almost admitted being incompetent for his brief; and Denmark's Mariann Fischer Boel, who was to take over Agriculture even though she is married to the owner of a big farming enterprise who receives large amounts of EU subsidies every year. Barroso speech to the European Parliament (26.10.2004) http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/04/47 4&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Commission Press Room http://europa.eu.int/comm/press_room/index_en.htm (Contribution by Andreas Dietl, EDRI EU Affairs Director) ============================================================ 7. Source code review of Irish voting machines ============================================================ Six months after cancelling the use of electronic voting machines for the European elections Ireland has reached a deal with the Dutch manufacturer of the machines. The Irish government will hire a private firm, acceptable to both sides, to review the complete source code of the voting machines. Nedap, the Dutch company that manufactured the machine, will provide the code under a non-disclosure agreement. The source code will not be made public. In March 2004 the Irish government set up the Independent Commission on Electronic Voting to review the secrecy and accuracy of the Nedap system. In its report the commission concludes "that it is not in a position to recommend with the requisite degree of confidence the use of the chosen system at elections in Ireland in June 2004". "(...) the Commission has not been able to satisfy itself as to the accuracy and secrecy of the system(...)". The report forced the government to cancel the use of the machines. The commission complained that it had never received the full source code of the Nedap machines. Nedap only agreed at that time to disclose the part of the code the was specifically written for the Irish electoral system. It is unknown if the review and possible problems found in the code will be made public. The expert Joe McCarthy has warned that Irish government will still be under pressure to introduce a paper trail element to the system. Nedap has argued that the system does not need a paper trail and that it is trustworthy without one. Nedap e-voting equipment to be audited in Ireland (31.10.2004) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1337963,00.html EDRI-gram 2.9, 'Ireland cancels e-voting' (05.05.2004) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number2.9/evote ============================================================ 8. NGOs criticise corporate influence in the EU ============================================================ More than 50 NGOs, brought together by the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), have urged the EU Commission to cut down the disproportionate corporate influence on Brussels policy making. In an open letter to designated Commission President Josi Manuel Barroso, the NGOs claim 15.000 Brussels lobbyists, "assisted by an army of public affairs consultants, today play a powerful and increasingly undemocratic role in the EU political process". The groups mostly come from environmental, anti-globalisation and Third World movements. They also criticise "revolving door' cases", naming the example of former Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan, "who less than a year after leaving the European Commission became not only consultant on WTO issues at the law firm Herbert Smith, but also Vice-Chairman of the investment bank UBS Warburg and Advisory Director at Unilever. Soon after, he also accepted the Chairmanship of the LOTIS Committee of International Financial Services London (IFSL), a lobby group representing the UK financial industry." They urge the upcoming President of the Commission to refrain from practices established by predecessors such as the 'Trans-Atlantic Business dialogue', co-founded by Sir Brittan and established with semi-official powers by the Prodi Commission. In addition they call for an obligation for transparency on the side of the lobbyists, following the U.S. example, as a step forward in re-establishing balance in Brussels decision making. "Without a radical improvement of the registration and reporting obligations for lobbyists working to influence the European institutions, there can be no effective democratic scrutiny of corporate influence over EU policy-making. Europe should learn from the lobbying disclosure legislation in place in the United States and Canada and oblige firms and organisations targeting the EU institutions (with a lobbying budget over a certain threshold) to submit regular reports giving details on the issues they are lobbying on, for which clients and with what budget. These lobbying disclosure reports should be fully accessible to the public in an online searchable database." European Commission Must Act to Curb Excessive Corporate Lobbying Power - Open Letter to Josi Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (25.10.2004) http://www.corporateeurope.org/barroso.html The lobbying labyrinth - interactive map of the EU quarter in Brussels http://www.corporateeurope.org/brussels_large.html EurActiv: Commission urged to curb corporate lobby influence in Brussels (03.11.2004) http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-131560-16&type=News (Contribution by Andreas Dietl, EDRI EU Affairs Director) ============================================================ 9. Privacy International condemns compulsory ID in NL ============================================================ Privacy International has expressed grave concerns about new Dutch legislation for extended compulsory identification. From 1 January 2005 every Dutchman (and tourist) 14 years and older will have to wear ID, and can be fined up to 2.250 euro for not immediately showing ID when asked to do so by any police official, or related officials, such as foresters and custom officials. A new government advertising campaign, launched this week, is targeted at children between 14 and 18, to make sure they buy an identity card in time. Officially the Netherlands only have an obligation to show ID when asked, but in the campaign children are told flat-out they have to always wear ID. Last year Privacy International already warned that the identity legislation would violate both the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child. Seeing the new campaign, PI warned that the campaign was an 'underhanded' attempt to convince innocent citizens to forego their legal rights. A legally enforced requirement to carry identification would invite a challenge in the European Court of Human Rights, says Simon Davies, the director of Privacy International. Davies says: "The indiscriminate identity requirement offends a core principle of the rule of law: that citizens should have notice of the circumstances in which the State may conduct surveillance, so that they can regulate their behaviour to avoid unwanted intrusions. Moreover, the requirement would be so extensive as to be out of all proportion to the law enforcement objectives served. Under the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, such a disproportionate interference in the private lives of individuals cannot be said to be necessary in a democratic society." Government ID campaign http://www.nederlandveilig.nl/bestand.asp?id=211 EDRI-gram 19, 'Dutch compulsory identification above 14 years' (08.10.2003) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number19/ID EDRI-gram 24, 'Dutch Lower House accepts compulsory identification' (18.12.2003) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number24/ID ============================================================ 10. Armenian group demands take down website Turkish consulate ============================================================ On 15 November 2004 a Paris court (Tribunal de Grand Instance) is scheduled to decide about a request from an Armenian group to take-down part of the website of the Turkish consulate in France. The Armenian group, the Comiti de difense de la cause arminienne, CDCA, accuses the Turkish consul of spreading 'denial propaganda', denying the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman empire. The CDCA bases its complaint on a resolution adopted by the European Parliament in 1987, and on a law adopted in France in 2001 specifically condemning the denial of the Armenian genocide. According to the CDCA the judge should also punish the hosting provider, Wanadoo, for not controlling the content of websites of their customers and not responding adequately to the complaint. On 21 June 2004 France implemented the European e-Commerce directive that regulates the liability of providers for the content of their customers. The French LEN (Loi pour la confiance dans l'iconomie numirique) was criticised severely by human rights groups and even tested by the Constitutional Council for endangering freedom of expression, amongst others, by introducing a notice and take down procedure that turns providers into private judges (article 2bis). Meanwhile, the Turkish defence is arguing to declare the court incompetent, because of the diplomatic immunity of the office. Le ginocide arminien et la portie juridique de l'article 6 de la LCEN sur la responsabiliti des hibergeurs (13.10.2004) http://www.juriscom.net/actu/visu.php?ID=577 Press release Comiti de difense de la cause arminienne http://www.cdca.asso.fr/s/detail.php?r=0&id=178 (French and English, 12.10.2004) Website Turkish consulate (generates failure message) http://tcparbsk.com/ also available through a personal website of the Turkish Consul http://perso.wanadoo.fr/tcparbsk/ Full dossier on the LEN by EDRI-member IRIS http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/len ============================================================ 11. Call for participation: consultation on fundamental rights ============================================================ The European Commission has opened a consultation on the establishment of an EU Fundamental Rights Agency. This consultation follows the decision taken by the European Council in December 2003 to extend the mandate of the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, based in Vienna, to become a Fundamental Rights Agency. The consultation addresses all non-governmental organisations protecting human rights and all persons involved in the development of protecting fundamental rights in the EU. The deadline expires on 17 December 2004. A proposal for a regulation to establish a Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union will be presented by the Commission in the course of 2005. EU consultation on fundamental rights (deadline 17.12.2004) http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/news/consulting_public/fundamenta l_rights_agency/index_en.htm ============================================================ 12. Recommended reading ============================================================ The OpenNet Initiative has published a report on the diversity of filtering programs and their impact on international law, communications, and policy. The initiative is an ongoing research partnership by the Advanced Network Research Group of the University of Cambridge, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and the Berkman Center to monitor international Internet censorship A starting point: legal implications of internet filtering (24.10.2004) http://opennetinitiative.net/docs/Legal_Implications.pdf ============================================================ 13. Agenda ============================================================ 9-10 November 2004, Brussels, Belgium Regulating Knowledge: Costs, Risks, and Models of Innovation This two-day conference, sponsored by MERIT, CEA-PME, the Open Society Institute, the Greens|EFA in the EP, and FFII, will survey the state of the policy debate over software patents and its relation to broader issues of access, innovation, and control of knowledge in the knowledge-based economy. http://en.eu.ffii.org/sections/bxl0411 10-11 November 2004, Turin, Italy The future of memory: preservation of culture in the digital world Warning: content and navigation require Flash plug-in http://www.csi.it/italiano/memoria.htm 15 November 2004, Brussels, Belgium EU Commission open workshop on spam http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ecomm/useful_information /library/public_consult/index_en.htm 18-20 November 2004, Berlin, Germany UN ICT Task Force Meeting and Global Forum on Digital Development The UN ICT Task Force will have its seventh meeting in Berlin on 19 and 20 November 2004. The first one and a half days will consist of a Global Forum on 'Promoting an enabling environment for digital development' that is open to qualified civil society experts. Civil society groups are organising a series of open workshops and events around the Task Force meeting. Most of them will take place on 18 November. UN ICT Task Force website and registration info http://www.unicttaskforce.org Civil Society events http://www.worldsummit2005.org ============================================================ 14. About ============================================================ EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 17 members from 11 European countries. European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments in the EU accession countries and wants to share knowledge and awareness through the EDRI-grams. All contributions, suggestions for content or agenda-tips are most welcome. 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