Paris, 4 July 2016 — This evening the committee of the European Parliament on Civil Liberties (LIBE) will vote on the draft directive on combating terrorism. La Quadrature du Net already warned about the dangerous…

UPDATE 30 JUNE 2016: The vote of the draft in LIBE committee is postponed to the 4 July 2016.
UPDATE 21 JUNE 2016: The vote of the draft in LIBE committee is postponed to the 27…

Paris, 20 June 2016 — The undersigned civil society organisations are deeply concerned about the Directive on combating terrorism and the European Commission’s initiatives that could enable and encourage needless or even counter-productive censorship, both…

Paris, 14 June 2016 — La Quadrature du Net is participating at the panel “Encryption and Human Rights” organised at the United Nations by the Committee Justice and Peace of the Dominican Order. This conference…

Paris, 7 June 2016 — BERECEuropean Regulators for Electronic Communications just published its draft guidelines that aims at clarifying the telecoms regulationThe regulation was adopted on 25 November 2015 and entered into force in April…

Personal Data

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Currently, the Data Protection Directive (EU) from 1995 regulates the protection of personal data on the Internet. It regulates the processing of personal data, which covers data collection, processing…

Lanceurs d’alerte et protection des sources

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Surveillance

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Paris, 1st June 2016 — Far from the French and European media spotlights, a draft directive on terrorism is being discussed at the European Parliament and will be voted on 15 June. This directive, aiming…

Paris, 13 April 2016 — On 23 March, the European Commission launched a consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain and on the ‘panorama exception’. While this consultation reflects the will…