Results for node/retention

April 11, 2012

UK: Home Office plans new surveillance measures

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [UK: Innenministerium plant neue Überwachungsmaßnahmen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.7_UK_Innenministerium_plant_neue_Ueberwachungsmassnahmen] The Communication Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) proposed by UK coalition, meant to extend the police’s access to individuals’ email and social media traffic data, is facing strong criticism from the opposition and civil liberties campaigners. CCDP is likely to be part […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

Self-regulation: Irish police database – “some sort of social media”

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Selbstregulierung: Irische Polizeidatenbank – quasi ein “soziales Netzwerk” | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Selbstregulierung_Irische_Polizeidatenbank_quasi_ein_soziales_Netzwerk?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Alan Shatter, the Irish Minister of Justice, has demanded an end to the abuse of the PULSE police database. In a sharply worded speech to the Association of Garda [Irish police] Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) conference, he said […]

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December 6, 2006

France – Using Social Security number to identify medical records

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new amendment proposed by the French Minister of Health Xavier Betrand is considering using the National Identification Record (NIR) as the identifier of a patient in the health sector. NIR is a unique number of every person in France, included in the national registry of natural […]

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December 6, 2006

Article 29 Working Party expressed its opinion in the SWIFT case

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 21-22 November 2006, an opinion was adopted by the Privacy Commissioners represented by Article 29 Working Group ruling against the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) for having transferred transaction details to the US. The Privacy Commissioners wanted to point out again that fighting terrorism […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

European consumers attitudes on privacy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einstellung europäischer Verbraucher zum Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Einstellung_europaeischer_Verbraucher_zum_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Some interesting results from a quantitative and qualitative analysis made by the EU-funded CONSENT project to find out about the consumers’ attitudes awareness of privacy issues online and service providers’ practices were presented at the final conference of the project, that […]

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December 5, 2005

New anti-terrorism measures in Denmark

Like France, Denmark is also working on a new round of anti-terrorism measures, to be presented to Parliament in the spring of 2006. The proposals are quite far reaching and encompass a range of intrusions into citizens’ digital privacy. Among the most notorious proposals are: – a recommendation to let the authorities monitor the entire […]

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December 17, 2008

Snooping law, "Lex Nokia", proceeding slowly but surely in Finland

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Earlier this year, in April, the Government of Finland presented a bill to the Parliament for an amendment to the Act on Data Protection of Electronic Communications. Raison d’être for the bill officially is that it would allow employers to investigate the log data of employees’ e-mails, […]

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February 2, 2016 · Blogs

European Commission defence of European rights sinks in an unsafe harbour

Following the decision of the European Court of Justice to overturn the EU/US “Safe Harbor” Agreement last year, EU/US negotiations have been ongoing to reach a new deal, which would facilitate transfer of data across the Atlantic. Having failed to reach an agreement before 1 February, the European Commission today announced plans to back down […]

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December 6, 2006

Campaign launched in UK to opt out of central medical database

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A campaign has been launched in the UK to get people to opt out of a government scheme to upload medical records from family doctors’ surgeries into a central health database. TheBigOptOut.org was launched in London on 29 November 2006 with support from NGOs such as Foundation […]

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December 5, 2007

Public letter on data security sent by MEPs to Frattini

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two members of the European Parliament (MEPs), rapporteurs on the European huge biometric databases Visa Information System (VIS) and the Schengen Information System II (SIS II), have addressed a public letter to commissioner Frattini asking for effective data protection and data security provisions and thus excluding the […]

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December 17, 2008

Spanish collective society fined for making clandestine wedding video

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) has been fined for having placed a private detective in a restaurant in Seville, in 2005, to film a wedding in order to prove that the restaurant was using music for which it had paid no royalties. The […]

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April 24, 2013 · Blogs

25 April: Citizens stripped by EU Parliament proposals warns civil rights coalition

The coalition warns that proposals in the EU Parliament could strip citizens of their privacy rights A coalition of civil rights organizations is holding a press conference on 25 April at 11am to urgently draw attention to a report which shows the current danger to EU data protection. The coalition is worried that data protection […]

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