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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Denmark plans to preserve illegally collected medical data

In Denmark, a controversial plan to prevent illegally collected medical data from being deleted has become a hot topic for the government. The plan involves transferring the data to the National Archives, which has an exemption in the Danish data protection act. Under the Danish health care act, general practitioners can transfer medical data to […]

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February 28, 2007

From Schengen to Prüm: Data Protection under 3rd pillar a prerequisite

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) One of the main priorities of the current German presidency, the inclusion of the Prüm’s Treaty into the EU legal framework, is likely to be achieved before its end in 30 June 2007. During its last meeting on 15 February the EU JHA Council agreed on incorporating […]

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June 20, 2012

UK websites might have to identify “trolls”

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Websitenbetreiber sollen „Trolle“ identifizieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Britische_Websitenbetreiber_sollen_Trolle_identifizieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] According to the new UK government proposals, website operators might soon have to identify users who have posted defamatory messages online, so that the victims of the respective messages may take legal action against the “trolls”. Presently in UK, a website […]

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June 19, 2013 · Blogs

EDRi letter to the US Embassy on PRISM

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [PRISM: EDRi-Schreiben an US-Botschafter | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_PRISM_EDRi-Schreiben_an_US-Botschafter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] On 18 June 2013, EDRi delivered the following letter in a frank exchange of views with the US Embassy on PRISM & data protection: European Digital Rights would like to thank you for the invitation to meet with you today. We welcome […]

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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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February 27, 2008

Germany: New basic right to privacy of computer systems

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Constitutional Court published on 27 February 2008 a landmark ruling about the constitutionality of secret online searches of computers by government agencies. The decision constitutes a new “basic right to the confidentiality and integrity of information-technological systems” as derived from the German Constitution. The journalist […]

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June 20, 2012

Google’s Street View privacy breach again in the public eye

Recently, the UK Data Protection Authority – Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has decided to reopen its investigation on Google over the collection of personal information by Google Street View project from May 2010. As a reaction to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s report issued earlier this year into the Street View data collection, ICO […]

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June 19, 2013 · Blogs

The Spanish Police might use spying Trojans on individuals’ computers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanien: Staatlicher Trojaner könnte künftig Privat-Computer ausspionieren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_Spanien_Staatlicher_Trojaner_koennte_kuenftig_Privat-Computer_ausspionieren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] A draft Criminal Procedure Code issued by the Spanish Ministry of Justice, authorises the police to install trojans on computers from surveyed individuals. According to Article 350 of the proposed draft, prosecutors may ask the judge for “the installation […]

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February 27, 2008

EC Draft Recommendation on RFID Privacy and Security published

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission published the Draft Recommendation on RFID Privacy and Security on the Your Voice in Europe-Platform for public consultation. After a public consultation on RFID Privacy Issues in 2006, some conferences and workshops and various discussions on the topic within the RFID Expert Group, this […]

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March 1, 2006

Extremely high Romanian wiretapping costs

According to declarations of Romanian public officials, during the last month, the total costs of the specialized police services for legal wiretapping in 2005 was at least 118 million euros, an amount very close to the annual national budget for scientific research. As Catalin Harnagea, former director of a Romanian Secret Service unit, declared the […]

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July 16, 2003

Swiss data protection chief criticizes USA

The head of Switzerland’s data protection commission says the United States’ war on terror is undermining personal privacy. Hanspeter Thür calls for tighter controls on the campaign against terrorism and for more money to safeguard individual rights. According to him, the Bush administration is pursuing a repressive policy with little regard for data protection. The […]

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April 20, 2016 · Blogs

Huge protest against corruption & surveillance in Macedonia

The political crisis in Macedonia deepened on 12 April when the President Gjorgi Ivanov announced that he would issue a blanket pardon to 56 politicians suspected of involvement in serious crimes. Over the last eight days, tens of thousands of citizens took to the streets of the capital city Skopje and about a dozen other […]

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