August 30, 2006

Internet voting in France under question

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) France has tried to implement an Internet voting system that should have allowed French citizens living abroad to vote during the presidential elections in 2007. However, the system has been criticized and has not been proven to be reliable. The French living abroad are represented by the […]

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November 29, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

EU Member States plan to ignore EU Court data retention rulings

Documents made publicly available through EDRi member Statewatch reveal that EU Member States are exploring all possible options to keep, and in fact expand, their current data retention regimes. The general plan is based on a new concept of ”restricted data retention”, which is really blanket data retention with a new name, along with amendments […]

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July 15, 2004

Opinion data protection authorities on PNR transfer

The Article 29 Working Party that oversees the implementation of the EU privacy directive has released its opinion on the current state of affairs regarding the transfer of passenger data from EU airlines to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Working Party notes that the Commission failed to take into account previous demands by […]

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August 4, 2004

Swiss protest against new personal identification number

The Swiss data protection authorities and several political parties have used a governmental consultation round to protest against a proposal to introduce a new sectoral ID number for persons, the SPIN law. According to the privacy authorities, the proposed law violates both constitutional and data protection principles. The new personal identification number would be sectoral […]

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October 20, 2005

Data retention: Council barks but cannot bite

Charles Clarke from the UK Home Office uttered some incredibly harsh threats to the European Parliament committee on civil liberties (LIBE) on 13 October, the day after the Council meeting, but his barking could not conceal the fact the ministers of Justice and Home Affairs did not have any teeth to bite with. Several national […]

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December 5, 2007

RFID and Informed Consent – Using and removing of RFID functionality

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the the EDRi statements on RFID Privacy Issues and RFID Security Issues published earlier this year, EDRi recently contributed with a third written statement to the European Commission’s RFID Expert Group focusing on RFID and Informed Consent. In this paper, EDRi deals with the possibilities of […]

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July 28, 2010

WP29 criticizes the implementation of the EU data retention directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WP29 Datenschutzgruppe kritisiert Umsetzung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2089] Article 29 Working Party (WP29) adopted during their meeting on 12-14 July 2010 a report on the implementation of the European data retention directive 2006/24/EC reaching the conclusion that the directive is currently not applied in a homogenous manner by […]

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February 28, 2007

ENDitorial : EU nations scolded by IIPA

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a lobby group representing the American publishing, software, recording and movie industries, has been busy. On 12 February IIPA published its recommendations to the US Trade Representative’s 2007 review of global copyright laws. This “Special 301” procedure can lead to significant […]

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April 9, 2008

The European Commission continues to pressure for early fingerprinting

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In spite of the recommendation of the European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, that the minimum age for fingerprinting should be 14, a spokesperson from the European Commission (EC) expressed on 2 April 2008 the EC intention to push for fingerprinting children starting at the age of […]

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November 3, 2010

ECJ decides private copying levies are not allowed for business use

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [‘Abgabe für Privatkopien’ laut EuGH auf gewerbliche Nutzer nicht anwendbar | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2324] On 21 October 2010, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that private copying levies on blank CDs, MP3 players and other digital media are allowed under EU copyright law only when charged on goods sold […]

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May 9, 2007

The EDPS Annual Report for 2006 shows more concern for data protection

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued its report for 2006 that includes activities and events as well as the main trends of the past year and draws conclusions related to complaints, developments in security, justice, freedom and new technologies with possible impact on personal data […]

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June 6, 2007

RFID Expert Group – Kick Off

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the public consultations on RFID last year, the European Commission announced the creation of an RFID Expert Group to assist in drafting the future RFID strategy. The group’s kick-off meeting was held in Brussles last week. EDRi was invited to participate in the group. The Group […]

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