Results for node/retention

June 4, 2008

Social networking sites might be regulated in EU

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 27 May 2008, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) called for new legislation that would regulate social networking sites. ENISA, which was created in 2004 to oversee online security measures in the 27 EU countries, issued a preliminary report of its General Report in […]

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December 18, 2003

Hustinx new EU data protection commissioner

Peter Hustinx, the Dutch data protection commissioner, will be elected today as the new EU data protection commissioner. The Conference of Presidents, composed of the heads of the Political Groups in the European Parliament, decided to back-down from their original idea to give the position to the Spanish magistrate Joaquín Bayo Delgado. He will now […]

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January 15, 2004

Schengen information system goes biometric

With the planned inclusion of two biometric identifiers into EU Member States’ passports and ID Cards as well as Visa to the EU, it was only a question of time when the first plans to store these identifiers in an EU-wide database would be announced. The announcement came shortly before Christmas: Biometric data will, according […]

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June 4, 2008

Deutsche Telekom under investigation for spying on its employees

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The giant German telecommunication company is under investigation by national prosecutors for a presumed breach of privacy, after having spied on the phone calls of its managers, journalists and even board members. According to Der Spiegel newspaper, the former monopoly incumbent operator – still 31.7% owned by […]

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June 6, 2007

The European Parliament voted for stronger data protection

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 21 May 2007, the European Parliament (EP) voted for the reinstallation of the data protection principles in the legislation that allows the police forces in Europe to share data. The European Council, which is the one deciding in police and judicial matters, had formally asked the […]

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June 4, 2008

ICO worried about a UK Government-owned traffic data database

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The new Communications Data Bill proposed by the Home Office has met the opposition of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which has shown concerns related to the proposals of building one Government-owned database with records of phone calls, email and Internet use in the UK. In ICO’s […]

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June 21, 2006

The European Commission dribbles the Parliament again in the PNR deal

The European Commission is moving ahead in its efforts to comply with the annulment by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of the agreement between the European Community and the US Government on the transfer of passenger name records (PNR). The Commission adopted on 19 June 2006 two initiatives in order to comply with the […]

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January 15, 2004

Data Dutch KLM passengers handed over to NASA

The US airline company Nothwest Airlines voluntarily handed over the personal data of possibly as much as 10 million US and European passengers to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Northwest Airlines has an alliance with the Dutch airline company KLM. The two companies have integrated their reservation systems and operate code-sharing flights from […]

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January 28, 2004

PNR: Bolkestein's diplomacy and anger Belgian DPA

MEP Marco Cappato has revealed a letter EU Commissioner Bolkestein sent to Tom Ridge, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. The letter was sent on 18 December, only two days after Bolkestein had given his presentation in which he tried to mislead the European Parliament on the true nature of the agreement on the transfer […]

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June 6, 2007

French State Council allows tracing P2P users

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The State Council of France validated on 23 May 2007 the automatic tracing of illegal downloading in P2P networks. This decision cancelled the 18th October 2005 CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés) decision that rejected the introduction of surveillance devices proposed by Sacem and other […]

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June 4, 2008

ENDitorial: A new "NSA FRAnchise" set up in Sweden?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Lex Orwell, a law proposal for total surveillance, is urgently being pushed to a vote on 17 June 2008 by national security hawks in the peaceful Kingdom of Sweden. It will mandate the “NSA franchise”, the FRA, to turn its forest of parabola ears and world’s 5th […]

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October 24, 2012

Details on German State Trojan programme

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Details zum Deutschen Staatstrojaner | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Details_zum_Deutschen_Staatstrojaner?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] Some documents spotted by the Annalist blog that were issued by the German Government in July 2012, within a parliamentary enquiry about expenditures by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, clearly show more details about what was revealed a year ago […]

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