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September 12, 2007

The European Court of Human Rights could influence the UK DNA database

Sir Stephen Sedley has recently proposed the enlargement of the DNA database in UK to cover the entire population and visitors that stay in UK even for a week, under the argument of creating a fairer system and eliminating the ethnical unbalance in the present database. But a case brought by 2 English people to […]

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January 18, 2012

Researchers say smart meter technology is privacy intrusive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Smart Metering: Forscher sehen Verletzung der Privatsphäre | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Smart_Metering_Forscher_sehen_Verletzung_der_Privatsphaere?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] Two German researchers presented a talk entitled “Smart Hacking for Privacy” at the 28th Chaos Computing Congress that took place between 27 and 30 December 2011, on the privacy implications of “smart” electricity meters. These devices, installed in homes, […]

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June 30, 2004

EDRI signs TACD resolution against PNR-transfer

On his last day as President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox finally decided to give in to the demands from the Legal Affairs committee and the majority of political group leaders. The European Parliament has now asked the European Court of Justice to annul the recently signed EU-U.S. agreement on transfer of airline Passenger […]

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January 17, 2013 · Blogs

US lobbying against the data protection reform intensifies

The United States authorities have produced another lobbying document to influence the European Union’s decision making on European citizens’ fundamental right to privacy and data protection. Strangely, the document itself is not on headed paper and contains no authorship information. All of the lobbying documents produced so far have been in support of the positions […]

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September 12, 2007

Is the IP address still a personal data in France?

Although the answer to this question may be obvious not only in France, but also in Europe, two decisions from the Paris Appeal Court may well change this established understanding. The decisions, respectively published on 27 April and 15 May 2007, concern individuals to the SCPP (a French collecting society of recording companies), in two […]

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June 30, 2004

EU initiative to make DRM more acceptable

The European Commission has funded a new project to make Digital Rights Management more acceptable to consumers. INDICARE (the Informed Dialogue about Consumer Acceptability of DRM Solutions in Europe) is distributing its first e-mail newsletter this week. The newsletter includes links to articles on the INDICARE website that are conceived as the starting point for […]

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September 10, 2008

Spanish local police keeps illegal database for political reasons

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) It has been revealed that the Spanish local police of Sada (Galicia) was keeping an illegal database with information and pictures of people, gathered during night patrols. On 14 August 2008, a counsellor, a local police officer and a Guardia Civil sergeant discovered in an office of […]

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June 30, 2004

French privacy authority forbids mail-service

The French data protection authority CNIL has declared the new U.S. mail-service ‘Did they read it?’ illegal. Through this service, launched in May 2004 by Rampell Software, subscribers get a report about the exact time their e-mail was opened, for how long, on what kind of operating system and if the mail was forwarded to […]

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

ID-Fingerprint obligation to be reviewed by European Court of Justice

The local Administrative Court of Wiesbaden (Hesse, Germany), where EDRi member Digitalcourage started legal action against the obligation for fingerprints in identity (ID) cards, submited the case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

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September 13, 2006

EU Green paper on surveillance technology

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) has adopted a green paper on surveillance technology used by the civil society in the fight against terrorism, that will be open for public consultation until the end of this year. The green paper, resulted from a public conference (Public-Private Security Dialogue: Detection […]

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September 12, 2007

US moves for "state secrets" privilege in the SWIFT case

The US Government has announced its intention to use the so called “state secrets” privilege legal tool in order to stop the lawsuit against SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) that has secretly disclosed millions of private financial records to CIA. According to the Justice Department’ s statement during the recent court filings, the […]

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January 30, 2013 · Blogs

An introduction to Data Protection

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einführung in den Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.2_Einfuehrung_in_den_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130207] EDRi launched the booklet “An introduction to Data Protection” on 28 January 2013, the European Data Protection day. The booklet is intended to provide an overview of some of the key issues and jargon surrounding data protection in the digital environment: from […]

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