Topic
Digital freedoms
09/08/2020
Published by Sofia Ciuffoletti at 09/08/2020
What is the internet? A means or an end? How do we define the right to access the internet? Is it an autonomous human right, or does it augment other rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights?
05/04/2019
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 05/04/2019
The Council of Europe and the European Union have been trying to curb hate speech on the internet, but social networks are at loggerheads with the human rights paradigm.
03/07/2018
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 03/07/2018
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation is an attempt to shift the paradigm and revise the 'social contract' of private companies and individuals defined as 'privacy in exchange for comfort and free services.'
01/03/2018
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 01/03/2018
All over Europe, digital rights are under attack, and numerous organizations are already advocating and going to court to protect human rights in the digital sphere. To facilitate collaboration between digital rights actors and provide funds for strategic litigation for that cause, Digital Freedom Fund was established in Berlin.
05/02/2018
Published by Damir Gainutdinov at 05/02/2018
A case initiated by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) against Telegram messenger last summer was the Russian authorities’ first demonstrative attack on digital […]
14/11/2017
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 14/11/2017
Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Society for Civil Rights) is one of the first European NGOs to use strategic litigation in the area of human and […]
29/06/2017
Published by Matvey Trutnev at 29/06/2017
A local court in Perm, Russia found Vladimir Luzgin guilty of “publicly denying the facts established by the International Military Tribunal for trial and […]
28/04/2017
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 28/04/2017
On the threshold of parliamentary elections Germany is pushing the legislation against hate speech and fake news on social media. According to the proposed […]
07/04/2017
Published by Daria Litvinova at 07/04/2017
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a law on March 28 restricting video, audio and online broadcasts of trials in the media – from now […]
27/11/2016
Published by Evgeny Berg at 27/11/2016
The so-called ‘Yarovaya package’, containing a series of legislative amendments ostensibly designed to combat terrorism, is perhaps the most dramatic development in Russian legislation […]