Global Info-Rights World-Information.Org shows the problems of a unilateral control of communication systems and the danger of abuse of privacy and the risk to democracy through the misuse of intelligence and information systems. It illustrates the use of disinformation as well as the utilization of new surveillance techniques and the role of psychological operations. World-Information.Org explores the threats to digital human rights and provides an overview of the abuse of the freedom of expression, information and communication. Related search: Global Info-Rights

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Technological measures As laid down in the proposed EU Directive on copyright and related rights in the information society technological measures mean "... any technology, device, or component that, in the normal course of its operations, is designed to prevent or inhibit the infringement of any copyright..." The U.S. DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) divides technological measures in two categories: 1) measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work, and 2) measures that prevent unauthorized copying of a copyrighted work. Also the making or selling of devices or services that can be used to circumvent either category of technological measures is prohibited under certain circumstances in the DMCA. Furthermore the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty states that the "... contracting parties shall provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors..."

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