IT-Political Association of Denmark
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. Membership is open to anyone. IT-Pol is the Danish equivalent of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Free Software privacy CD, Polippix, 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. Privacy The Danish surveillance law, Overvågningsloven was actively fought by IT-Pol. IT-Pol developed a CD called Polippix that can mitigate most of the Internet related surveillance included in the surveillance law. Software patents IT-Pol believes software patents are not beneficial for innovation and therefore fights Software Patents. Copyright IT-Pol believes the balance between society and rights holder should be pushed more towards the society. Digital Rights Management IT-Pol believes Digital Rights Management causes problems