Results for node/retention

March 15, 2006

Results data protection inspection EURODAC kept secret

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has completed a first inspection of the central unit of EURODAC, but the complete results of the report have not been made public, arguing sensitivity of the information. EURODAC is a community-wide information technology system for the comparison of the fingerprints of asylum seekers, which was adopted on 11 […]

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March 14, 2007

Cross-border wiretapping proposed by the Swedish Government

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Mikael Odenberg, the Swedish defence minister presented on 8 March 2007 a draft law to the parliament that would give the national defence intelligence agency the power to monitor all cross-border phone calls and email traffic without court order. The proposal, which according to the government, is […]

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July 3, 2013 · Blogs

ECJ Advocate General: Google shouldn't be forced to block results

In a case opposing the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and Google Spain, Niilo Jaaskinen, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ ), issued on 25 June 2013 his opinion that, on the basis of the Data Protection Directive, search engine service providers are, in principle, not responsible of personal data appearing […]

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March 12, 2008

Google completes the DoubleClick deal after EC clears the acquisition

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) announced on 11 March 2008 that it has cleared the Google-DoubleClick deal after its investigation made according with the EU Merger Regulation. The decision of the EC considered that “found that Google and DoubleClick were not exerting major competitive constraints on each other’s […]

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July 4, 2012

European Commission position on Do Not Track

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Do Not Track: Standpunkt der Europäischen Kommission | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.13_Do_Not_Track_Standpunkt_der_Europaeischen_Kommission?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120704] The European Commission also got engaged in the discussions on the Do Not Track (DNT) at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) by sending a letter asking W3C to require browser makers to give DNT options to users when they […]

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July 4, 2012

UK snooping law plans may come into contradiction with EC

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britisches Schnüffelgesetz könnte Standpunkt der EU-Kommission widersprechen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.13_Britisches_Schnueffelgesetz_koennte_Standpunkt_der_EU-Kommission_widersprechen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120704] The plans of the UK government of increasing the police online surveillance powers under the draft Communications Data Bill (CDB), also known as the “Snoopers’ Chart”, might come into contradiction with the European Commission’s position on citizens’ rights. If […]

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March 14, 2007

UK Home Office plans to fingerprint children starting 11

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) “Restricted” documents circulated among officials in the UK Identity and Passport have shown Home Office plans to fingerprint children aged 11 years and over, beginning with 2010, as part of the programme for the introduction of new biometric passports and ID cards. The fingerprints are to be […]

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March 12, 2008

High Level Contact Group talks about EU-US personal data issues

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) According to a document revealed by Statewatch, the EU and US are negotiating the data protection principles for which common language has been developed. The Group has as purpose to draft a proposal that should deal with the personal data protection in any future EU-US agreements that […]

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March 12, 2008

French website Note2Be.com closed by court order

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the legal action initiated on 14 February by several individual teachers and SNES-FS union, a French court ordered on 3 March 2008 to Note2be.com to eliminate from their site the names of the teachers graded by students. The site, launched on 30 January 2008, that allowed […]

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August 27, 2008

Successful appeal against backdoor in German anonymiser

Yesterday, an appeal-court in Germany suspended an earlier order to build a backdoor into Germany’s most famous anonymising service. The backdoor was removed immediately. According to the original court-order, the IP-addresses of all visitors to a certain website had to be logged and handed-over to the federal criminal police office. This vital information was not […]

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July 17, 2013 · Blogs

The PRISM scandal gets bigger

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [PRISM-Skandal weitet sich immer mehr aus | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_PRISM-Skandal_weitet_sich_immer_mehr_aus?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] Privacy campaigners have filed claims against Prism and Tempora, the US and British spy programmes that allow intelligence agencies to gather, store and share data on millions of innocent people. Privacy International has submitted a claim to the Investigatory Powers […]

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August 27, 2003

Anonymiser reveals identity Dutch pudding-poisoner

The identity of a Dutch pudding-poisoner was revealed through an anonymiser. The Dutchman tried to blackmail Campina, a large dairy producer, by poisoning a tin of pudding. He made Campina open a bank account, get a ‘world card’ with it and deposit 200.000 Euro. Then they had to send him the details of the magnetic […]

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