Results for node/retention

September 26, 2012

Data protection package: a proposed timetable in the EP

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Datenschutzpaket: Fahrplan für das Europaparlament | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_EU-Datenschutzpaket_Fahrplan_fuer_das_Europaparlament?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] Last week, on 19 September 2012, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee discussed the data protection package, in particular the planned timetable. LIBE is the Committee leading the dossier in the European Parliament and will issue two reports, […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

Belgium ISP under cyberattack by British intelligence

Edward Snowden’s opened Pandora box keeps revealing extended eavesdropping of intelligence services. As some new leaked documents and slides show, Belgium ISP Belgacom, which includes as customers the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament, was targeted by GCHQ, the British intelligence service. On 16 September 2013, Belgacom expressed concern regarding an intrusion into its IT systems, having […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

“Our Data, Our Lives”: The 2013 Public Voice Conference in Warsaw

Like most digital rights or information technologies conferences held since Edward Snowden’s revelations early June, the PRISM scandal and the NSA surveillance program were intensively discussed at the 2013 Public Voice Conference. The conference was held on 24 September 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, in conjunction with the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners on 25-26 September. As […]

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May 9, 2007

New calls for computer online searches by German authorities

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German authorities seem to have a higher desire to push for a legal basis of the online searches of personal computers in Germany, despite the Federal Supreme Court decision in February 2007 that, according to the German Code of Criminal Procedure, decided that online police snooping […]

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May 7, 2008

EDPS wants data protection considered by EU research projects

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) wants privacy and data protection requirements to be considered in the future EU research and technological development (RTD) projects, especially those developing information and communication technologies. The EDPS’ main role is to monitor EU developments which have an impact […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

Snowden nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize

Eric Snowden, the whistleblower behind the revelations regarding the electronic surveillance made by NSA, GCHQ and other intelligent services, has been nominated for the 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the Greens/EFA group and GUE/NGL group. The seven nominees for the 2013 Sakharov Prize were presented at a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Development committees […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

FBI was controlling servers located in France

The FBI admitted on 12 September 2013 that, in late July, it had secretly taken control of some servers located in France in order to plant a malware within a police action. The agency has introduced the spyware on web pages hosted by Freedom Hosting, meant for Tor anonymization network. The hoster had been exposed since 2011 by activists […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

Surveillance scandal in discussion at the United Nations

The surveillance scandal has now reached the United Nation’s Human Rights Council, which opened its 24th session last week to a volley of questions about privacy and spying, many of them targeted at the United States and United Kingdom. (That’s perhaps not surprising, since U.N. representatives were among those listed as being monitored by the […]

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May 23, 2007

Google is profiling online gamers

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has filed a patent in Europe and in US on a profiling technology planning to create psychological profiles of web users based on their behaviour at playing on-line games. The company thinks it can gather up information to shape the personality of web users according to […]

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October 10, 2012

ECJ to rule on the biometric passports

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH befasst sich mit biometrischen Reisepässen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_EuGH_befasst_sich_mit_biometrischen_Reisepaessen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The Dutch administrative court asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) whether the EU Regulation obliging member states to store fingerprints in passports and travel documents infringes the right to privacy. This is a result of four cases in which […]

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September 25, 2013 · Blogs

ENDitorial: The DNT ship is listing

The latest developments in the W3C working group on Do Not Track (euphemistically called the tracking preference working group) since the last time we wrote about this effort are not good, sadly. First in late July the departure of Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford who fought tirelessly to ensure that the W3C process […]

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May 21, 2008

Updates on Visa Information System Regulation

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) An updated version of the Regulation on the Visa Information System (VIS) published by Statewatch reveals that only random checks might be carried out, if there are too many people waiting. As already presented in EDRi-gram, the legislative package on the Visa Information System that included the […]

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