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Is the Commission’s report on Swift agreement biased?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [SWIFT: Ist der Bericht der Kommission inkorrekt? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_SWIFT_Ist_der_Bericht_der_Kommission_inkorrekt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] The very controversial TFTF (Terrorist financing tracking programme or Swift Agreement) through which the European and US law enforcement authorities are exchanging financial personal information of suspected terrorists, is covered by two review boards (one American and another one […]
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ENDitorial: Questions on the draft Directive on Cybersecurity Strategy
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Fragen zum Entwurf für eine Strategie und eine Richtlinie zur Cybersicherheit | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_ENDitorial_Fragen_zum_Entwurf_fuer_eine_Strategie_und_eine_Richtlinie_zur_Cybersicherheit?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] A draft of the already announced EU Directive on Cybersecurity Strategy that is circulation in Brussels seems to be totally misguided, in EDRi’s opinion. The Commission seeks to put ENISA at the heart of […]
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Privacy Camp: civil society warm-up for the CPDP
22 January 2013 in Brussels The Privacy Camp is an event in Brussels on privacy and data protection challenges and possibilities in Europe, launched by European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Law, Science, Technology and Society research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-LSTS) and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL). This event is a free-to-attend pre-conference […]
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EU PNR directive gets funding before being adopted
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU PNR-Richtlinie zur Fluggastüberwachung: Erst finanzieren, dann verabschieden | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_EU_PNR-Richtlinie_zur_Fluggastueberwachung_Erst_finanzieren_dann_verabschieden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] The European Parliament (EP) Civil Liberties Committee is to vote, by the end of January 2013, on the controversial EU-Passenger Name Record (PNR) directive proposal introduced in February 2011 that has already been examined by the three EP […]
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Irish EU Council Presidency proposes destruction of right to privacy
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft empfiehlt Abbau des Rechts auf Privatsphäre | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_Irische_EU-Ratspraesidentschaft_empfiehlt_Abbau_des_Rechts_auf_Privatsphaere?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] The Irish Presidency of the European Council has distributed a “discussion paper” on the protection of citizens’ personal data ahead of this week’s Justice and Home Affairs Council in Dublin. As the first Presidency in this “European Year […]
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Data Retention in Austria: Constitutional Court turns to the CJEU
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [VDS in Österreich: Verfassungsgericht wendet sich an Europäischen Gerichtshof | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_VDS_in_Oesterreich_Verfassungsgericht_wendet_sich_ein_Europaeischen_Gerichtshof?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] The Austrian Constitutional Court has reservations that the EU Directive on the Retention of Data could be incompatible with the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. For this reason, the 14 constitutional judges have addressed the Court of […]
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Irish EU Council Presidency proposes destruction of citizens' right to privacy
The Irish Presidency of the European Council has distributed a “discussion paper” on the protection of citizens’ personal data ahead of this week’s Justice and Home Affairs Council in Dublin. As the first Presidency in this “European Year of the Citizen”, we had every reason to expect the Irish to produce novel ways of protecting […]
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Commission’s own internal review condemned CleanIT’s incoherence and cost
The CleanIT project has received a huge amount of criticism from outside of the EU institutions. But imagine if the Commission had been alerted to the incoherence of the planned project. Imagine if, before investing 325.796 Euro in CleanIT, the European Commission had been warned that the project lacked methodology and did not represent value […]
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European Parliament Data protection draft – compromise or compromised?
The draft Report of the European Parliament on the European Commission’s proposed Data Protection Regulation was published today. The Parliamentarian responsible, German Green MEP Jan Albrecht, has sought to improve on the Commission’s initial proposal and also to address many of the concerns raised by his colleagues in the discussions that have taken place so […]
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WCIT: what happened and what it means for the Internet
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WCIT: Was passiert ist und was es für das Internet bedeutet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_WCIT_Was_passiert_ist_und_was_es_fuer_das_Internet_bedeutet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] After two weeks of intensive negotiations, the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) adopted the revised International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs), a controversial treaty, which has been viewed by many as an attempt by the International […]
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Innovation at risk in EU – the EU unitary patent adopted by EP
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ Innovation in Gefahr: EP verabschiedet einheitliches EU-Patent | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Innovation_in_Gefahr_EP_verabschiedet_einheitliches_EU-Patent?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] Despite strong and long opposition and criticism from patent lawyers, legal experts, SMEs and civil society groups , on 11 December 2012, the European Parliament (EP), putting at risk any innovatory efforts, adopted a flawed proposal of unitary […]
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EC decided: no need for more databases for law enforcement
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission: Keine weiteren EU-weiten Datenbanken für Strafverfolger | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.24_Europaeische_Kommission_Keine_weiteren_EU-weiten_Datenbanken_fuer_Strafverfolger?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121219] On 7 December 2012, the European Commission issued a communication regarding information exchanges within EU, concluding that no new law enforcement databases were needed presently. This communication comes as a result of the Stockholm Programme invitation for the […]
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