EFF Europe
EFF Europe
EFF has hundreds of European donors and thousands of active supporters throughout Europe. In 2007, as part of our expanding international mission, we opened a new EFF Europe office, based in Brussels.
EFF Europe acts as a watchdog for the public interest in intellectual property and civil liberties policy initiatives that impact the European digital environment. We work to advise the central institutions of the EU on these issues, as well as co-operate with 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
- IP WATCH | April 10, 2008 European Parliament Rejects Proposal to Make ISPs Shut Off Suspected Pirates
Other Resources
Deeplinks Posts
- May 10, 2008 Global minilinks for 2008-05-10
- May 09, 2008 The Struggles of France's Three Strikes Law
- May 09, 2008 Knitwit BBC Goes After Dr Who Fans
- May 04, 2008 Global minilinks for 2008-05-04
- April 20, 2008 Global minilinks for 2008-04-20
- April 12, 2008 Global minilinks for 2008-04-12
- April 10, 2008 European Parliament to Sarkozy: No "Three Strikes" Here
- April 07, 2008 EU Politicians Strike Back Against Three Strikes
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]
