Archive for the ‘Digital Rights’ Category

No democratic oversight of intelligence services in Denmark?

Danish Minister of Defense, Soeren Gade, refuses to publicly comment whether Denmark is in a state of war. The current “war on terror” and the war in Afghanistan give the Danish intelligence services the justification to monitor e-mail, post, telephone, etc. without democratic control under paragraph 17 of the Danish National Defense Act, according to [...]

Second Danish ISP blocks The Pirate Bay.

The Danish internet service provider (ISP) TDC, has become the second Danish ISP to block access to the bittorrent tracking site, The Pirate Bay. The Danish High Court ordered the ISP Tele2, to block access to The Pirate Bay last December. There is speculation that TDC has acted to block The Pirate Bay in anticipation [...]