April 12th, 2018 15 years of fighting for digital rights. Felt like a newbie among veterans. Nice to know feel the weight of EDRi's past work, it's quite something. Gives you a sense of responsability and increases your own expectations for yourself. But felt like…
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Please note that this refers strictly to a Portuguese law regarding *intelligence services’ access* to data retention. This is *not* the same case where, following a D3's complaint to the Justice Ombudsman, led to the data retention law in Portugal to be declared unconstitutional in 2022.
A new chapter is expected to soon be written in the long battle between lawmakers and the Constitutional Court in Portugal, regarding the intelligence services’ access to data retention. In January 2018, 35 Members of the Parliament (MP) from three parties officially requested the Constitutional Court to provide a rule on the constitutionality of the new law that grants intelligence services access to retained data.
Note: This is a text I was asked to write, after IGF 2017, in Geneva. Not so surprisingly, it was never published by the organization that asked me for it . It was written around 12 January 2018. Target audience was young people. The Internet…
This is the day zero of my blog. In my mind, it will be a blog about Law and Digital Rights (mostly). It will have posts in English or in Portuguese, depending on the subject. I do love my language, but I also need to…
The USA has recently discovered that we have awful net neutrality practices here in Portugal. Wikipedia's Net Neutrality page in English is even illustrated by the offers of the Portuguese ISP MEO. However, the story being told in the US media is not exactly correct.
Um workshop dedicado à reforma europeia do direito de autor, os seus desafios, perigos e oportunidades, em cooperação com a EDRi, COMMUNIA e Wikimedia. Mais informações aqui.
This text was retroactively added in 2021. I published it as it was 2017, because I prefer to keep things ~in chronological order. Memes made in the woods of the south of Sweden, for Copyfighters. I think these - at least most of them -…
I'm a Copyright X evangelist. Every year, around September, I try to bring people to this course. Copyright X is an online course by the Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society, from the Harvard Law School. A twelve-week networked course that has been offered annually…
Gosh, what a giant name. On the 100th birthday of the beginning of WWI, Valiant Hearts was the best work of art we could expect, to mark this date. The game manages to teach us a lot about WWI (really, there is an exceptional historical…
Este apelo foi escrito a 20 de Junho de 2016, num blog Medium (criado somente para o efeito). Foi o início da Associação D3. Pelo seu valor histórico (mais que não seja a nível pessoal), fica também aqui guardado. Aos activistas nacionais. Viva, Sei que…