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April 26, 2006

EU pays for surveillance and control technologies

“Arming Big Brother”, a new report by Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch, reveals the army industry lobbying has led to creating a new European security-industrial complex. According to this report, EU is preparing to spend to €1 billion per year on new “research” into surveillance and control technologies. Following the demands made in 2003 by […]

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April 23, 2008

EDPS endorses data breach notification provision in ePrivacy Directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued his opinion on the new draft text of the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (ePrivacy Directive) as proposed by the European Commission. One of the important changes supported by the EDPS with the new text is the creation […]

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October 22, 2003

Still no EU Data Protection Supervisor

European discussions can’t agree on the appointment of a European privacy-czar. The European parliament insists on choosing Joaquín Bayo Delgado, who has no experience in data protection issues, as the new EU Data Protection Supervisor. The Council favours the Dutch Data Protection Commissioner Peter Hustinx. Jorge Salvador Hernández Mollar, the President of the European Parliament’s […]

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September 11, 2013 · Blogs

US and UK intelligence campaign against encryption

Top-secret files obtained by the Guardian from former contractor Edward Snowden reveal that NSA and GCHQ, that is the US and British intelligence agencies, cracked the online encryption used by people to protect their personal information such as emails, banking and medical records. The guarantees offered by Internet companies to their consumers that their personal […]

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May 10, 2006

EU Parliament Members want more privacy in SIS II

The Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs at the European Parliament debated the draft Regulation on the establishment, operation and use of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II). There was a consensus among members of the committee that better privacy safeguards are needed for the SIS II, especially because it will […]

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April 23, 2008

Eurobarometers on data protection in EU

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) — Version corrected on 24.04.2008— According to a couple of Eurobarometer surveys on data protection, issued by the European Commission on 17 April 2008, EU citizens have little faith in the security of data transmission on the Internet. Two surveys were conducted by Gallup in January 2008, […]

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October 22, 2003

EU health chip

The European Union has taken steps towards the creation of an EU-wide health identity card. By 2008 there will be a new card with a microchip that can store a range of biometric and personal data. Approved by Union ministers in Luxembourg the plastic disk will slide into the credit-card pouch of a wallet or […]

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September 11, 2013 · Blogs

EDRi and FREE want an end to lawless surveillance

Civil society groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the Fundamental Rights European Experts Group (FREE) have demanded an end to lawless spying on individuals around the globe. At a meeting with the Chair of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee today, the two groups handed over a document containing detailed analysis of the current European […]

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September 21, 2012 · Blogs

Clean IT – Leak shows plans for large-scale, undemocratic surveillance of all communications

This article is also available in German: [CleanIT – Pläne zur Überwachung des Internets im großen Stil] A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims, as well as the most fundamental legal rules that underpin European democracy and the […]

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September 26, 2012

Facebook gives up its face recognition feature in EU

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Facebook gibt Gesichtserkennungsfunktion in Europa auf | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_%20Facebook_gibt_Gesichtserkennungsfunktion_in_Europa_auf?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] Following pressure from Data Protection offices in EU, Facebook has decided to give up the controversial face recognition feature in EU. The feature used by Facebook was taking information given by users when tagging friends’ faces in photo, with the […]

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July 26, 2017 · Blogs

Oversight Board report: Illegal surveillance of Danish citizens

The annual report from the Danish Intelligence Oversight Board (TET) was published on 7 July 2017. Under Danish law, TET is tasked with overseeing the data collection and data processing practices of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) and the Danish Defence and Intelligence Service (DDIS). Both intelligence services operate mostly outside European Union […]

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May 10, 2006

Passports with biometrics for Romanians

Starting with 1 January 2007, passports containing electronic chips will be put into circulation for the Romanian citizens. The passports will include a storage system (probably RFID) for personal data, including a facial image and digital fingerprints. The present passports will preserve their validity and they will be replaced at the request of the citizens. […]

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