A BBC report pushed Italy into international hype, for Mr. Maroni (Lega Nord) Ministry of Home Affairs, backed by a group of public prosecutors, started an aggressive campaign against Skype, claiming that organized crime uses this software to protect their illegal activities. This is a clear shift towards encryption’s outlawing - or limitation of its use - that will negatively affects both human rights and private sector activities.
A contribution to EDRI-GRAM, European Digital Rights Initiative’s newsletter.
The Bergamo Criminal Court overrules the seizure, but establishes a case law that is a violation of civil rights
An article by Giancarlo Livraghi, published on Gandalf.it, comments the Modica Court decision that indicted a website for being “clandestine”.
ALCEI organises Italian Biotech Law Conference’s fourth edition. 2008 conference topic is the (near) future building of a National DNA Database for criminal investigations.
On October 10, 2007, EDRI issued a statement to express its serious concerns over a new Council of Europe Recommendation on ‘promoting freedom of expression and information in the new information and communications
environment’.