EFF Europe
EFF has hundreds of donors and thousands of active supporters throughout Europe. As part of our expanded international work, EFF has been increasing its participation in European issues, providing publicity and logistical support for combatting bad European tech policy in co-operation with the many digital rights groups across Europe to fight effectively for consumers' and technologists' interests.
Our workload currently includes combatting the growth of invasive European intellectual property law and policies, addressing free speech and innovation issues in Internet filtering and blocking, defending the privacy of Europeans from international threats to the rights protected by the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), and monitoring the effects of EU's introduction of data retention regime.
In The News
- PBS MEDIASHIFT | January 15, 2009 Vodafone's Child Porn Filter Blocks Innocent Czech Tech Blogs
- NEW YORK TIMES | December 29, 2007 Piracy and Privacy
- IP WATCH | April 10, 2008 European Parliament Rejects Proposal to Make ISPs Shut Off Suspected Pirates
Other Resources
- April 09, 2009 The Return of Line Noise: National Security Letters, Three Strikes Laws, and Warrantless Wiretapping
- February 04, 2009 Act on ACTA: Tell the New Congress to Open the Secret IP Pact
- Letter to MEPs Regarding Bono Fjellner/Rocard amendment
- Guy Bono Report on the Cultural Industries in Europe - CULT Amendments
- CopyCrime[copycrime.org]
- Dear WIPO[dearwipo.com]
Deeplinks Posts
- August 11, 2009 The UK's Surveillance Society: Half A Million Intercepts of Communications Data in 2008
- June 10, 2009 France Declares Three Strikes Unconstitutional
- May 13, 2009 3 Strikes for Print: A Modest Proposal From Ed Felten
Documents and Files
Internet Filtering and Blocking
- December 12, 2007
Network Filtering: Limiting Cultural Industries, Damaging the Internet[PDF, 238.67 KB] Memo to MEPs, giving EFF's experience that filtering by ISPs is an overbroad, ineffective measure that will do little to practically address the concerns of major rightsholders while imposing serious costs on the individual rights of European citizens in their roles as consumers, artists and educators.
- December 7, 2007
IFPI Letter to European Policy Makers [PDF, 212.13 KB] "ISPs - Technical Options for addressing online copyright infringement" - the recording industry's suggestions for filtering and blocking the European Internet.
- December 4, 2007
Letter to EU CULT Committee[PDF, 18.66 KB] Letter from EFF Europe to European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee (CULT), expressing concern at the introduction of content filtering amendments in the Guy Bono report on the cultural industries in Europe.
- December 12, 2007
Network Filtering: Limiting Cultural Industries, Damaging the Internet[PDF, 238.67 KB]
Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED)
- March 5, 2004
Comments on Proposed EU Directive on Copyright Enforcement[PDF, 75.18 KB] One pager on the predecessor to IPRED2, the original 2004 EU Directive on Copyright Enforcement.
- March 5, 2004
Comments on Proposed EU Directive on Copyright Enforcement[PDF, 75.18 KB]
