Archive for 2014

Despite the decision of the European Court of Justice that the directive to store personal data is invalid, Dutch Minister Opstelten of Justice sees no reason to follow this decision. The data retention law stays effective in the Netherlands.

The Minister argued in an Orwellian statement: > The retention of certain data of all citizens is necessary, since we can not know in advance which stored data belongs to suspect and non-suspect citizens.

The government made it thus very clear that it sees all citizens as potential suspects and not as citizens with basic rights such as privacy, freedom...

The totally new and revamped version of our Service Centre (Cosmos 2.0 ) is ready. Cosmos 2.0 has been rebuild from the ground to make it easier to maintain your website, mail and/or VPS. Commonly used functions are more prominently featured and Cosmos 2.0 is much faster.

Dear State Ambassadors to the EU,

Please make your relevant Ministers aware of this Call to support net neutrality rules in the proposed Telecommunications Single Market Regulation.

We understand that you are currently involved in the Council of Ministers discussions on the proposed European Telecommunications Single Market Regulation. We, the undersigned organisations, are committed to an open, transparent and secure Internet and would like to call on you to support strong open Internet provisions as part of this proposal.

The open nature of the Internet is a key driver for innovation and...

Seven internet service and communications providers from around the world filed a legal complaint today calling for an end to GCHQ's attacking and exploitation of network infrastructure in order to unlawfully gain access to potentially millions of people's private communications.

The complaint, filed by Riseup (US), GreenNet (UK), Greenhost (Netherlands), Mango (Zimbabwe), Jinbonet (Korea), May First/People Link (US), and the Chaos Computer Club (Germany), along with Privacy International, is the first time that internet and communication providers have taken collective action against GCHQ's targeting, attacking and exploitation of networks maintaining communications infrastructure.

At Greenhost we depend on Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). Not only is it essential for our daily operations, using this type of software is one of our core values. That is why we made a dedicated home for all of our FLOSS projects at https://greenhost.io. This site houses our FLOSS projects and makes it possible to easily track updates in one place. We encourage you to have a look, use the tools we made and build upon our code.