IT-Political Association of Denmark
non-profit organization | |
Founded | 2002, Denmark |
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Headquarters | Denmark |
Revenue | 1,500 Euro (2020) |
Website | www.itpol.dk |
The IT-Political Association (Danish: IT-Politisk Forening, commonly known as IT-Pol) is a Danish non-profit NGO, which works to collect information on IT and convey this to politicians and the society to get the best possible grounds for legislation. The association is independent of political parties and communicates with politicians from all political parties.[1] Membership is open to anyone.[2]
IT-Pol is the Danish equivalent of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Free Software privacy CD, Polippix,[3] was started by the IT-Political Association.
Issues
IT-Pol is primarily concerned with issues that restricts citizens and innovation.
Censorship
Denmark is one of the countries in which most ISPs filters DNS traffic by default. IT-Pol regards this policy as censorship, as the filter filters content that is legal to view in Denmark.[4]
Privacy
The Danish surveillance law, Overvågningsloven (in Danish) was actively fought by IT-Pol.[5] IT-Pol developed a CD called Polippix[6] that can mitigate most of the Internet related surveillance included in the surveillance law.[7]
Software patents
IT-Pol believes
Copyright
IT-Pol believes the balance between society and rights holder should be pushed more towards the society.[9]
Digital Rights Management
IT-Pol believes
Open Standards
IT-Pol believes
E-voting
IT-Pol believes
Use of IT in the public sector
IT-Pol believes the public sector should use IT that makes interoperation with the citizens easier.[13]
Spam
IT-Pol supports the ban on
References
- ^ "IT-Politisk Forening". itpol.dk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ Bliv medlem Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Danish)
- ^ "polippix.org". polippix.org. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ Censur Archived 2009-02-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Danish)
- ^ "Hosted by one.com". itpoliti.dk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ Polippix[permanent dead link] (in Danish)
- ^ Privatliv og overvågning Archived 2009-06-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Danish)
- ^ Softwarepatenter[permanent dead link] (in Danish)
- ^ Ophavsret[permanent dead link] (in Danish)
- ^ Digital Rights Management[permanent dead link] (in Danish)
- ^ Åbne standarder[permanent dead link] (in Danish)
- ^ E-valg[permanent dead link] (in Danish)
- ^ Offentlig IT[permanent dead link] (in Danish)
- ^ Spam[permanent dead link] (in Danish)