21st century technology needs 21st century laws
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act is the basis from which all US laws regarding civilrights in the use of electronic communications stem ...
Claim your rights to the EU
Citizenhouse.eu is your one stop shop to claim your rights in the EU. Designed for European citizens and civil society organizations, this website helps you ...
... with the cooperation of AT&T, was illegally sucking up American citizens’ internet usage and funneling it into a database. The documents became the heart of civil liberties lawsuits against the ...
4th Amendment Wear
In our last post we wrote about Iceland’s forward-thinking initiative to gather citizens’ input through social media to draft their next constitution. A brief moment of reflection ...
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First crucial stage successfully reached for the Botswana Speaks Parliamentary Initiative with the development of the Alpha version of the online platform and its presentation to the Members of Parliament ...
(Matching tags: political corruption,politics,social justice,Civil-Society,Civil Rights)
Many of my friends leading human rights and anti-corruption organizations from Bahrain to Zimbabwe face rising threats from national governments and their security forces. The vice is tightening in one ...
There are various issues (problems...) in societies that seem to persist through the years. One of these problems seems to be the corruption in the police force. In various countries around the globe, ...
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You have more European rights and more ways to claim them than you imagine.
When the EU Institutions take decisions and the 27 Member States apply them, they are bound by a Charter ...
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United for Change.
A couple of weeks ago, 3 million of us signed a petition urging US Congressmen to reject SOPA on the ground that it choked innovation and our freedom of expression. It ...
Hmmm.
Google has admitted complying with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws. ...
Torture
Spy tools sold and maintained by German communications and engineering giants Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks are being used by authorities in Bahrain to aid in their interrogation and ...