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"Information and communication technologies (telephone, Internet, emails, blogs and social networks) make daily life and relationships with our relatives, friends or even strangers easier. Young people and young adults make a particularly intense use of them. However, unless we are careful, they can lead us to hand over excessive amounts of our personal data, facilitating surveillance of our private lives. Protection of personal data is crucial for the respect for privacy. The European Union has established a legislative and regulatory framework which aims at ensuring the protection of citizens' personal data as one of their fundamental rights. What is the reality in practice and how can we protect ourselves on a daily basis?

The European project "Sensitization and information of young European citizens on the protection of their personal data" takes stock of the situation in nine EU countries (Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom) and on the European legislation. This 18-month project started in January 2009 and is funded by the "Fundamental Rights and Citizenship" programme of the European Commission. It is coordinated by the French League of Human Rights (LDH), in partnership with the European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH), European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Czech association Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) and the Spanish association Comunicació per a la Cooperació (Pangea). The project aims at raising citizens' awareness on the issue of privacy protection. Country reports, a comparative analysis of the various situations and an inventory of the legislation and practices in the EU are being produced for that purpose. They will come with recommendations to public authorities.

As for now, the project publicly releases a comic book "Under surveillance "it produced as an information and awareness tool for young adults.

Synopsis: In an unspecified European city, a group of young people works, studies, travels, publishes on forums and blogs, exchanges on social networks and meets at concerts... A "difficult" situation in the life of a young photo-journalist and his friends' mobilization to help him out of this situation illustrate the breaches of personal data protection facilitated by the use of new technologies. The comic book underlines the consequences but also possible remedies. A glossary and links to useful websites come with the comic book.

The comic book "Under surveillance" is available in Catalan, Czech, English and French. Online versions are made available on the project partners' websites. 20,000 hard copies are available in each language and are disseminated for free. AEDH and EDRI are disseminating the English versions. We invite organisations interested in contributing to this dissemination to get in touch with AEDH and EDRI. Those interested in the production of versions in other European languages must contact LDH, the project coordinator.

Contacts: EDRi (edrigram at edri dot org) AEDH (aedh at aedh dot eu) LDH (ldh at ldh-france dot org)


The comic book "Under surveillance" is an information and awareness tool for young adults created in the European project "Sensitization and information of young European citizens on the protection of their personal data", where EDRi was one of the partners.

The project is coordinated by the French League of Human Rights (LDH), in partnership with the European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH), European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Czech association Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) and the Spanish association Comunicació per a la Cooperació (Pangea)."


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"You have the right to download it, to read it, to do whatever modifications you want (if they are for your own use) , to give it to your friends, as in agreement with your national legislation on copyright as regards copyright limitations."

View the Comic Book in English on this website - FlipBook format: http://www.edri.org/comic-book/en/Under-surveillance-comic-book.html

View the Comic Book in Czech on this website - FlipBook format: 
http://ldh-czech.lpbook.fr/

View the Comic Book in Catalan on this website - FlipBook format: 
http://ldh-catalan.lpbook.fr/

View the Comic Book in Francais on this website - FlipBook format: 
http://ldh-francais.lpbook.fr/

Release on eMule Content Database:
http://contentdb.emule-project.net/view.php?pid=2203