Paris, 16 July 2015 — European Parliament’s ITRE commission endorses the compromise adopted during the trialogue on 30 June regarding the regulation on telecommunications. Despite the improvements brought to the text compared to the…

Paris, 15 July 2015 — La Quadrature du Net strongly condemns the attempts to intimidate the German website Netzpolitik, accused of treason by the German court for publishing documents revealing the extension of Internet surveillance by…

Paris, 8 July 2015 — On Thursday 9 July, the European Parliament will vote on its own-initiative report on copyright reform, proposed by MEP Julia Reda. The report has been widely picked apart due to…

EU lawmakers sat down for their first meeting yesterday (24 June) to work out details on the EU’s data protection reform. Facing bumps ahead, negotiators said they were still committed to wrapping up the legislation…

Trade chief acknowledges more controversial TTIP will not happen this year. […]

Malmström said the legal experts from Brussels and Ottawa are “basically done” with the so-called “legal scrubbing,” the final stage for the Comprehensive Economic…

Initial interceptions lawful but retention and examination of communications illegal, rules IPT in case brought following Edward Snowden revelations
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PARIS — On Wednesday, France woke up to find that the National Security Agency had been snooping on the phones of its last three presidents. […]

UPDATE 20 JULY 2015 : Final version of the regulation (including recitals)

Paris, 30 June 2015 – After months of negotiations behind closed doors between the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the…

Paris, 29 June 2015 — The Council of the European Union is looking to remove all reference to Net Neutrality in the regulation of telecommunications. While the Council has always refused to take a step…

Paris, 25 June, 2015 — This morning, La Quadrature du Net, French Data Network and the FDN Federation filed an amicus brief to the French Constitutional Court against the Surveillance Act that was just adopted…