Results for node/retention

December 6, 2010

EDRi speech to European Commission Data Retention Conference

On 3 December, the European Commission organised a one-day conference on the Data Retention Directive, bringing together police forces, national ministries, data protection authorities and civil society. European Digital Rights (Axel Arnbak from Dutch member Bits of Freedom) gave one of the speeches which opened the event. The script can be downloaded from: http://www.edri.org/files/Data_Retention_Conference_031210final.pdf The […]

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July 16, 2008

Irish Human Rights Commission added to data retention challenge

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The High Court in Dublin has allowed the Irish Human Rights Commission to become a party to the data retention challenge being brought by Digital Rights Ireland. The Human Rights Commission, which is a state body, will be an amicus curiae (friend of the court) with the […]

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February 9, 2011

Data retention law provisions declared unlawful in Cyprus

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Zypern für rechtswidrig erklärt | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_Zypriotische_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_rechtswidrig] The Cyprus Supreme Court decided on 1 February 2011 that some of the provisions of Law 183 (I) / 2007 on disclosure of telecommunications data are unlawful, as they breach the Cyprus Constitution and its jurisprudence, as revealed by the […]

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August 27, 2008

UK government goes on with its plan for data retention

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK government intends to oblige ISPs and telephone companies to keep Internet personal data traffic for at least 12 months and local, health authorities and lots of other public bodies are to be given access to details of everyone’s personal Internet information. On 15 August 2008, the […]

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December 5, 2005

Polish plans for 15 years mandatory data retention

In Poland, the parliamentary leader of the new social-right governing party ‘Law and Justice’, Przemyslaw Gosiewski, has called for a new law to introduce mandatory telephony data retention for 15 years. His call followed an article the day before, on 22 November 2005, in the leading newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza with a cry from local investigators […]

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November 17, 2010

Dutch government cancels plans for national database on bank data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische Regierung gibt Pläne für nationale Bankdatenbank auf | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2360] After facing enormous pressure from the media, civil society and several MPs, The Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice announced that it will not develop a national database or search engine containing bank data of all Dutch citizens. […]

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June 16, 2010

New SWIFT agreement as bad as the rejected one

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neues SWIFT-Abkommen so schlecht wie das alte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1998] The EU Commission adopted on 15 June 2010 the new agreement with the US Department of Treasury (DoT) on the transfer of data to the DoT’s Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP), informally called “SWIFT agreement” because it relies on […]

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December 2, 2009

Spanish court revokes its decision to shut down P2P-related sites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanisches Gericht widerruft seine Entscheidung P2P-verwandte Webseiten zu schließen| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1614] A preliminary shut down decision against two P2P file-sharing link sites has been recently overturned by a Spanish court which also fined the anti-piracy group involved in the case. Two eD2K file-sharing link sites known as Elitelmula and […]

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December 15, 2010

ENDitorial: WIPO SCCR 21 session

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: WIPO SCCR 21 Meeting | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2445] The present text is a report from the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights 21st meeting in Geneva, Switzerland (SCCR 21). In this report, the debate on the Broadcasting Organizations’ protection (except for the NGO statements) is not included due […]

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February 10, 2010

ACTA: the hot copyright treaty surrounded by secrecy

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA: Umstrittenes Urheberrechts-Abkommen im Nebel | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1699] The secrecy on the closed international agreement on Intellectual Property issues – ACTA – is making everyone suspicious on the content of the new treaty, which could contain dangerous legislation for digital civil rights. After the end of talks on ACTA […]

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March 11, 2009

At Large Structures in ICANN get together for the first time

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Erstes Treffen der At-Large Structures ICANN | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1330] For the first time in ICANN history, at the 34th International ICANN meeting in Mexico City the representatives of 88 At-Large Structures (ALS) from five Regional At-Large Organizations representing ICANN’s global At-Large community came together to discuss the main ICANN […]

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September 13, 2006

TOR servers seized in Germany

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The public prosecutor’s office of Konstanz, Germany raided, during the last weekend some computing centres and seized several servers that were running copies of TOR, a well known software used for the anonymisation of the Internet usage. The action was related to a child pornography case, and, […]

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