Results for node/retention

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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June 30, 2004

WSIS Tunisia prepcom report

The first Prepcom of the WSIS second phase took place from 24 to 26 June 2004 in Hammamet, Tunisia. The Prepcom started with major obstruction of civil society participation even before civil society could make their first intervention in the governmental plenary session. On the second morning of the Prepcom, the Tunisian ambassador objected in […]

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January 30, 2013 · Blogs

EU governments keep increasing requests to Google for private data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google Transparenzbericht: Zahl der Datenabfragen erneut gestiegen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.2_Google_Transparenzbericht_Zahl_der_Datenabfragen_erneut_gestiegen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130207] According to Google’s latest Transparency Report released on 24 January 2013, EU governments’ requests for users’ IP addresses, Internet browsing history, email communications or documents have dramatically increased during the last three years. Only between July and December 2012, […]

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September 12, 2007

EU asks the customers' opinion on the DoubleClick -Google affair

As Google plans to buy out U.S. web advertising supplier DoubleClick, the European Commission has already sent questionnaires to Google customers on the matter, even before Google has actually filed to the European Union’s top antitrust regulator for the purchase. This is considered a rather unusual step as although the European Commission has frequently sent […]

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February 1, 2012

Police frequently uses Silent SMS to locate suspects

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Polizei setzt häufig Stille SMS zur Ortung Verdächtiger ein | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.2_Polizei_setzt_haeufig_Stille_SMS_zur_Ortung_Verdaechtiger_ein] One issue that came out during the 28th Chaos Communication Congress held in Berlin between 27 and 30 December 2011, was the use of the so called “Silent SMS” by the police in Germany to track down […]

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