February 10, 2010

UK introduced full-body screening in Heathrow airport

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [UK führt Ganzkörperscanner am Flughafen Heathrow ein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1700] As announced in January 2010, UK has begun developing a programme of introducing full-body scanners in airports, starting with Terminal 4 of Heathrow airport and Manchester airport. BAA, the biggest UK airport operator, said its staff had been trained […]

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February 10, 2010

Bits of Freedom starts campaign for data breach notification law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bits of Freedom startet Kampagne für Benachrichtigungspflicht bei Datenschutzverletzungen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1701] The Dutch digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom started a campaign for the introduction of a data breach notification law in The Netherlands. A data breach notification obligation on telecom providers is already to be implemented on […]

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February 10, 2010

Update on the Belgian transposition of the Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Neues zur Umsetzung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1702] The transposition of the Data Retention Directive in Belgium has remained stagnant for a long time. Following a public consultation in May 2008 on a first draft law proposal and draft royal decree to transpose this Directive into Belgian law, […]

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February 10, 2010

The Pirate Bay has been censored again in Italy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italien: The Pirate Bay wieder zensuriert | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1703] Following the reversal by the Italian Court of Cassation of the appeal won on 24 September 2008 against the decision of the Italian court of August 2008 that ordered the seizure of The Pirate Bay (TPB) in Italy, TPB was […]

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February 25, 2009

Data protection authorities support civil society on the Telecom Package

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Datenschutzbehörden unterstützen die Zivilgesellschaft beim Thema Telekompaket | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1302] Macedonian: [Органите за заштита на лични податоци го поддржуваат граѓанското општество | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1382/4/lang,mk/] The Article 29 Working Group and the European Data Protection Supervisor have issued public statement supporting some of the arguments of the civil society, including EDRi, […]

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February 10, 2010

France and Denmark may filter online gambling websites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich/Dänemark: Sperren für Glücksspielseiten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1704] An amendment to the draft law on the opening of the market of online gambling was introduced to the French Senate Commission for culture and communication, in order to give the administration the power to apply filters to gambling sites without a […]

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February 25, 2009

The trial of The Pirate Bay in Sweden

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Pirate-Bay Prozess in Schweden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1303] The big, long and extremely mediatized trial filed on 31 January 2008 by Swedish prosecutors against the four Pirate Bay founders for “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws” started at Stockholm’s District Court, on 16 February 2009. The first day […]

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February 10, 2010

The winners of the Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2009

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Big Brother Awards 2009 | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1705] The winners of the Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2009 were announced on 5 February 2010 in Amsterdam. In the category “Government”, the prize was awarded to the creation of a fingerprint database of all Dutch citizens, to be accessed by the […]

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September 23, 2015 · Blogs

Germany: The secret service’s 300-million-euro surveillance plan

This is a shortened English version of the German article originally published by Andre Meister on Netzpolitik.org. Translation and changes by Kirsten Fiedler and Nikolai Schnarrenberger. Fibreoptic surveillance, scanning of Internet traffic in real time, cracking encryption, hacking computers: Germany’s foreign intelligence agency “Bundesnachrichtendienst” (BND) is massively expanding its internet surveillance capabilities. On 21 September, […]

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February 25, 2009

Lex Nokia storms into the Finnish Parliament

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Lex Nokias Einzug ins Finnische Parlament | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1304] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Лекс Нокиа влегува во финскиот парла… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1392/4/lang,mk/] Government bill dubbed as Lex Nokia, also known as the snooping law, entered the Parliament for debate on 24 February 2009. The bill has been […]

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February 10, 2010

ENDitorial: Undead WIPO treaty resurrected in Council of Europe

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Europarat belebt untotes WIPO Abkommen wieder | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1706] On January 28 and 29, the Council of Europe held a consultation meeting on the launch of work on a new international instrument that would create neighbouring rights for broadcasting organisations. The purpose of this initiative is to take […]

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February 25, 2009

Norwegian group joins Sweden-based Justice Center against Swedish FRA law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Norwegische Gruppen schließen sich dem Justizzentrum gegen das schwedische FRA-Gesetz an | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1306] The Norwegian organisation of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has filed a petition, known as a Third Party Intervention, in support of the case brought to the European Court of Human Rights challenging the […]

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