October 24, 2007

Update on DNA and biometrics in French immigration law

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With its final vote on 23 October 2007, the French Parliament confirmed the introduction of DNA testing in the new immigration law to prove family links for foreign candidates applying for a more than 3 months visa on family regrouping grounds. The only recourse could now be […]

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December 4, 2013 · Blogs

No Warrant Internet Spying By French Authorities

On 26 November 2013, the French National Assembly discussed the draft of the military programming law which could give the authorities the power to collect, without a judge warrant and in real time, telecom users’ data as a result of an amendment introduced by the Senate in first reading. Presently the internal security code stipulates […]

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July 1, 2009

Swedish court: IP addresses are personal data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schwedisches Gericht: IP-Adressen sind persönliche Daten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1455] Macedonian: [Шведска: ИП адресите се лични податоци | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/edri/shvedska-ip-adresite-se-lichni-podatoci.html] The Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled on 18 June that the IP addresses are personal data in a case regarding APB (the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau, Antipiratbyrån), a lobby group representing copyright […]

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May 8, 2013 · Blogs

LIBE EP Committee: No PNR data sharing within the EU

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [LIBE-Ausschuss des EP gegen EU-weiten Austausch von PNR-Daten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_LIBE-Ausschuss_des_EP_gegen_EU-weiten_Austausch_von_PNR-Daten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] The directive obliging airlines to pass personal details of EU passengers to the authorities of the EU member states was rejected by the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament (EP) on 24 April 2013. The proposal […]

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April 18, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Fighting for migrants’ data protection rights in the UK

Since 2014, the United Kingdon (UK) government has steadily rolled out policies to make the country a “hostile environment”  for migrants, in the words of Prime Minister Theresa May.

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January 15, 2014 · Blogs

Google was fined by French and Spanish Data Protection Authorities

On 19 December 2013, Google was fined by the AEPD – Spanish Data Protection Authority (DPA) with 900 000 Euro for breaching the Spanish data protection provisions. Later on, on 3 January 2014, Google was given the maximum 150 000 Euro fine by CNIL (the French Data Protection Authority) ‘s Sanctions Committee for non-compliance with […]

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May 22, 2013 · Blogs

ENDitorial: European Privacy Association – good, bad or simply misunderstood?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Die European Privacy Association – gut, böse oder einfach nur falsch verstanden? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_ENDitorial_Die_European_Privacy_Association?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] The European Privacy Association, after being caught out for failing to respect the rules of the European Transparency Register, has issued a defence of its actions. An article published by IDG News Service […]

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February 15, 2006

No private copy for DVD in France?

According to information published by the newspaper Les Echos a working document of the Ministry of Culture on the draft copyright law excludes the DVD from the private copy exception. Representatives of the industry such as SEV (The Audio Edition Union) consider such an approach will only acknowledge a reality. As Jean-Yves Mirski, general delegate […]

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February 14, 2007

European institutions try to impose a stronger position in the PNR debate

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament intends to strengthen its opposition to the US demands related to the transfer of European air passenger data (PNR). Following the debate that took place on 31 January 2007 in the European Parliament, the vote on the position that EU should have concerning the […]

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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Patriot Act à la française: France to legalise unlawful surveillance

In recent years, France has increasingly tightened its laws on crimes committed on the Internet. From the LOPPSI law voted in 2012 to the latest anti-terror law voted in November 2014, the bill on Intelligence announced on 19 March by the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, is fully consistent with a history of repressive Internet […]

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April 20, 2016 · Blogs

The biggest data breach in Turkish history

About 50 million personal records of Turkish citizens have been made publicly available in a searchable database on the internet. Ironically, although the site that holds the database is open to the entire world, it is one of the 110,000 sites blocked by Turkish government and can only be accessed from Turkey via a virtual […]

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June 19, 2013 · Blogs

US agencies have unlimited access to Internet data

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post and the Guardian, NSA and FBI are extracting e-mails, photographs, documents, video and audio chats directly from the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, within a programme called PRISM which has not been made public until now. As one of the documents mentions, the companies […]

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