Today we have an interview with the President of the Eurpean Digital Rights Organisation (EDRI) Andreas Krisch. We talk about the european level of Netpolitics, data retention and participation in the political process in europe.

topics:* explain what EDRI is and does* financing and member organisations* history of RFID * Data Retention in Europe* official and shadow evaluation report on Data Retention* explaining european net politics* Activism and Lobying in europe* net neutrality* multiple paradigms for internet access* Activism and transparency in politics

links:* http://www.edri.org/ European Digital Rights* http://www.edri.org/files/shadow_drd_report_110417.pdf Shadow report on Data Retention from EDRI* http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/20110418_data_retention_evaluation_en.pdf official report on Data Retention (german version: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/20110418_data_retention_evaluation_de.pdf)* http://www.talkinganthropology.com/2011/04/07/ta27-vorratsdatenspeicherung/ TA27 - Data Retention (german)* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention WP: Data Retention* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification WP: RFID* http://twitter.com/AndreasKrisch @AndreasKrisch on Twitter* http://twitter.com/edri_org @edri_org on Twitter* http://www.laquadrature.net/ la quadrature du net* http://www.respekt.net/projekte-unterstuetzen/details/projekt/51/ mein Abgeordneter (crowd funded NP watch site)* http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/ Abgeordneten Watch