June 16, 2010

ENDitorial: New coalition's U-turn on privacy in UK

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Kehrtwende der neuen britischen Koalition | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2006] The coalition Government plans to keep the Summary Care Record, despite pre-election pledges by both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to rip up the system – which is not compliant with the I v Finland judgement of the European […]

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January 16, 2008

German data retention act challenged

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Just five days after the German President Horst Köhler approved the German data retention law that entered into force on 1 January 2008, the German Working group on data retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) challenged the law in the Federal German Constitutional Court. The complaint was filed with the […]

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June 1, 2011

MEPs approve body scanners on airports on a voluntarily basis

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Abgeordnete befürworten Nacktscanner-Einsatz auf freiwilliger Basis | http://bit.ly/ja0anz] As the European Commission plans new rules to add body scanners to the list of EU-authorised methods for passenger screening, the European Parliament, which has the right to veto, made its position known on 24 May 2011, by approving a […]

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July 14, 2010

Facebook faces serious fines in Germany

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Auf Facebook warten in Deutschland hohe Geldstrafen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2065] The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information John Caspar has launched legal proceedings against the operator of the social network Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don’t use the respective social […]

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June 6, 2012 · Blogs

Web blocking – Conclusions from the Danish Presidency

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Netzsperren: Schlussfolgerungen der dänischen Ratspräsidentschaft | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.11_Netzsperren_Schlussfolgerungen_der_daenischen_Ratspraesidentschaft?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120606] On 8 June 2012 the Council of Ministers will adopt a “Council Conclusions” document on the creation of a “Global Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Online”. In line with the Directive adopted last year, the text refers to blocking “where appropriate” […]

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February 14, 2007

Online police searches found illegal in Germany

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) in Karlsruhe ruled, on 5 February, that, according to the German Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO), online police snooping was illegal. As the court argued, StPO had no provisions to allow the authorities to perform online snooping, the code allowing only […]

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January 30, 2008

Key privacy concerns in Netherlands 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The nominees and winners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2007 showed it clearly: a proper level of data protection in The Netherlands cannot be taken for granted. A number of big projects and ongoing legislative efforts threaten the state of data protection in the Netherlands. The […]

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June 29, 2011

High level discussions on online tracking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hochrangige Diskussion über Online-Tracking | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.13_Hochrangige_Diskussionen_ueber_Online_Tracking?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110708] A meeting organised jointly by the University of Berkeley and the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam drew together an outstanding collection of international experts, NGOs and industry representatives to discuss online tracking protection and browsers. Information Society Commissioner […]

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June 5, 2013 · Blogs

Council of Europe to step up for Net Neutrality

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europarat tritt für Netzneutralität ein | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.11_Europarat_tritt_fuer_Netzneutralitaet_ein?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130605] As a follow-up to the Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on network neutrality, and in the implementation of the Internet Governance Strategy 2012-2015, the Council of Europe has organised on 29-30 May 2013 a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Network Neutrality and […]

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February 15, 2006

DVD circumvention device released in Ireland

SlySoft, a company registered in Ireland, has released software that allows users to convert their own DVDs to formats they can watch on mobile phones, Playstation Portables, video iPods and similar devices. This is one of the first examples seen in the wild of a “circumvention device” which bypasses the copy restriction technology contained in […]

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February 14, 2007 · Blogs

House of Lords produces report against the AVMS directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A report of the Lords European Union Committee offered new reasons to oppose the Commission’s draft Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), successor of the Television Without Frontiers Directive, that will extend television regulation to some Internet video services. The Directive was approved in its first reading by […]

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March 1, 2006

Data Retention Directive adopted by JHA Council

The Ministers at the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council, following an agreement reached by the Council on 1 and 2 December 2005, adopted the Data Retention Directive on 21 February 2006. The Directive was adopted by the European Parliament on 14 December 2006 after the Council threatened to push for its own much tougher […]

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