January 14, 2009

Big Brother Awards UK 2008

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Big Brother Awards (BBA) are back in UK with more positive awards to celebrate the people that have been involved in protecting privacy in the past years. The event, held in December 2008 at the London School of Economics, was organized by the EDRi-member Privacy International and […]

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January 14, 2009

ENDitorial: Everyone can eavesdrop in Macedonia

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Eavesdropping devices that are being sold through adverts are mostly used by pupils for cheating at their school exams, and by men who doubt their wives’ fidelity. “Hey, let’s meet, we should not discuss this over the phone.” This sentence has long been used among friends, colleagues […]

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February 11, 2004

Dutch police arrests 52 'Nigerian' spammers

In January, Dutch police have arrested 52 people suspected of large scale internet fraud with the infamous ‘Nigerian e-mail’ scam. The scammers sent spam e-mails asking for help in transferring a large sum of money out of their country (usually Nigeria), in exchange for a generous percentage. According to an AP news report, the gang […]

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February 27, 2004

EU ruling on Microsoft by the end of March

Antitrust regulators from the all EU member States will discuss a draft European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft in Brussels on 15 March. In a second meeting on 22 March the regulators will discuss the measures, including fines, that will be taken against Microsoft. It is expected that the final ruling will become public in […]

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July 19, 2006

EU Patent Policy criticised at the public hearing

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During the EU patent policy hearing on 12 July, the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) criticised The European Patent Office (EPO) and the proposed European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) which would put the new centralised European Patent Court under EPO control. FFII considers that EPLA […]

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August 1, 2007

ECJ's Advocate General says no handing traffic information in civil cases

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In her opinion on case C-275/06 (Productores de Música de España Promusicae vs. Telefónica de España SAU) the advisor to the European Court of Justice (EJC), Advocate General Juliane Kokott, considered that, according with the EU law, the ISPs are not obliged to reveal personal data in […]

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August 1, 2007

Search engines dealing with privacy standards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has recently announced a new change in its privacy policies by reducing its cookies lifetime to just two years, but experts warn this is more a PR move than a substantial one. However, other search engines started the discussions on their privacy issues. A new post […]

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June 16, 2004

Berlin declaration on music flatrate

During the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin, from 10 to 12 June 2004, legal scientists and civil rights defenders jointly launched a declaration on collectively managed online rights. The declaration is a response to the call for comments on the Communication from the European Commission on the management of copyright and related rights in […]

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August 27, 2008

Seminar on the Telecoms Package and Network Filtering

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The telecoms package seminar on the 27 August 2008 in the European Parliament arranged by Swedish MEP Christofer Fjellner had a remarkably large audience. Over 100 persons came to listen to the five speakers from both industry and civil society. Over all, the speakers called for better […]

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July 15, 2004

National parliaments challenge Council on software patents

Since the beginning of July, the European Parliament had two weeks to group up fractions and build coalitions. A new pro-EU Centrist and Liberal group has emerged, which will be the third strongest in the European Parliament after the Conservatives and Social Democrats. Due to all the political power game, there was not much time […]

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August 30, 2006

Scrambling for Safety 8

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Scrambling for Safety 8 focused on the UK Home Office consultations over plans to give the police powers to require the production of decryption keys and of plaintext. The Home Office produced a draft code of practice on government access to “communications data” – phone numbers […]

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December 13, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

What happens to our data on rental cars?

On 6 December 2017, EDRi member Privacy International published research about data on connected cars. The report “Connected Cars: What Happens To Our Data On Rental Cars?” presents concerns about the way connected transportation facilitates the generation and collection of information about drivers in ways that most people are not able to understand, question, or […]

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