Results for node/retention

February 15, 2012

ENDitorial: EU DP Regulation Proposal: The French CNIL defends its turf

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: EU-Entwurf zur Datenschutzverordnung – Französische Datenschutzbehörde CNIL verteidigt ihr Revier | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_ENDitorial_EU-Entwurf_zur_Datenschutzverordnung_Franzoesische_Datenschutzbehoerde_CNIL_verteidigt_ihr_Revier?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] The French CNIL was one of the first national Data Protection Authority (DPA) to react to the publication, by the European Commission, of its Data Protection Framework Proposal on 25 January 2012. In a very […]

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October 20, 2005

EFF research into hidden codes colour prints

The US based digital rights organisation EFF has started extensive research into the hidden codes some laser colour printers and photo copiers add to every page they print or copy. In 2004 printer-manufacturer Canon was awarded a Big Brother Award in Germany for secretly adding a unique code to every print-out. Soon after, it turned […]

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October 10, 2007

German DP Commissioner against Google-Doubleclick deal

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Data Protection Commissioner of the German state of Shleswig-Holstein Thilo Weichert publicly opposed the Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick in a letter to EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Mr. Weichert declared that: “At present we have to assume that in the event of a takeover of DoubleClick […]

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February 16, 2012

SABAM vs Netlog – another important ruling for fundamental rights

SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs), the Belgian collecting society for music royalties, is in the spotlight again. A few months after the Scarlet/SABAM case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has released a new decision on the legality of filtering systems on the Internet, this time with regard to […]

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October 20, 2005

Swedish DPA: music industry may collect IP addresses

According to the Swedish e-zine The Local, the Swedish Data Inspection Board now allows the Swedish anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån and the record industry group IFPI to collect the IP addresses of file-sharers. In an earlier ruling EDRI-gram reported about, the Swedish Data Protection Authority said APB and IFPI broke privacy laws, because they were collecting […]

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October 22, 2008

Protests in France against the Edvige file on St. Edwige day

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As previously announced in EDRi-gram, St. Edwige day in France was a day of protests against the file project called Edvige, a file that would gather information on any person, including minors, considered by the police as a “suspect” capable of disrupting the public order. On 16 […]

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February 23, 2012

FAQ on referral of ACTA to European Court of Justice

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Häufig gestellte Fragen zur Vorlage des ACTA-Abkommens beim Europäischen Gerichtshof| https://www.unwatched.org/20120224_FAQ_zu_ACTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120224] Following the recent decision of the European Commission to refer the draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the European Court of Justice, Access and EDRi have prepared this short FAQ to explain this process. 1 – How […]

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October 25, 2006

WSIS follow up at UNESCO

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16-19 October 2006 UNESCO conducted the first multi-stakeholder consultations on the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Action Lines C3 (access to information), C7 (e-learning), C9 (media) and C10 (ethics) at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. UNESCO is one of the lead […]

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October 22, 2008

German court says ISPs do not violate the law by storing IP addresses

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 30 September 2008, the Munich District Court decided in a provisional ruling that website operators were not violating the data protection legislation when storing IP addresses of their visitors as IP addresses alone are not considered personal data. The case was brought to the court by […]

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October 10, 2007

ENDitorial: Montreal Privacy Week: Terra Incognita or Deja Vu?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) More than 600 persons from 50 countries gathered in Montreal to participate to the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, on 25-28 September 2007, making this year venue attended by a record number of interested parties. The theme of the conference, ‘Privacy Horizons: Terra […]

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February 29, 2012

Internet communications heavily monitored by German intelligence services

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Geheimdienste überwachen Internetkommunikation | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Deutsche_Geheimdienste_ueberwachen_Internetkommunikation?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] Based on two reports of the German Parliamentary Control Panel (PKG), in 2009 and 2010, the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection, the Federal Intelligence Service and the Military Counterintelligence Service have monitored an impressive number of e-mails and other forms of Internet […]

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February 29, 2012

UK: Home Office spy plan

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Überwachungspläne des britischen Innenministeriums | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Ueberwachungsplaene_des_britischen_Innenministeriums?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] The UK Government plans to store details on all phone calls or online communications for a year in databases that will be available to security services, under the pretext of anti-terrorism fight. Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be […]

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