EU wants to kill open Wi-FI
Open Wireless Advocates to European Court: Don't Make Us Lock Down Our
Networks
In the preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European
Union, the Europe's highest court is asked whether an enforcement
practice requiring open wireless networks to be locked is an
acceptable one. Germany's Federal Supreme Court in 2010 held that the
private operator of a wireless network is obliged to use password
protection in order to prevent abuse by third parties. If the CJEU
affirms this finding, the effect could be to extend this bad precedent
throughout Europe, grounding the open wireless movement across the
continent. If on the other hand it rejects that finding, German law
could be forced to return to sanity, allowing thousands of hotspot
operators to open up their networks again.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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