Results for node/retention

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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September 9, 2009

A new SWIFT agreement under negotiation between EU and USA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Verhandlungen über ein neues SWIFT-Abkommen zwischen EU und USA | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1511] On 1 September 2009, the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament (LIBE) held a hearing on the renewal of the agreement which is now under negotiations between the EU and the USA on data transfers via […]

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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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March 12, 2014 · Blogs

Belgian NGO’s challenging the data retention law

At the end of 2013, Belgium passed a law forcing communication providers to retain certain data about the activities of their customers. This means information about each and every Belgian citizen that uses electronic communications services. Providers of fixed or mobile telephony and Internet access have a legal duty to retain data (who calls whom, […]

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July 13, 2015 · Blogs

EU Parliament to vote on indiscriminate collection and storage of travel data on 15 July

Two years after rejecting the Commission proposal for a Directive on Passenger Name Record (PNR) in April 2013, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is expected to vote again on the adoption of this blanket surveillance measure on 15 July. The purpose of the Directive is to collect and store the […]

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November 7, 2018 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

NGOs urge Austrian Council Presidency to finalise e-Privacy reform

EDRi member epicenter.works, together with 20 NGOs, is urging the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union to take action towards ensuring the finalisation of the e-Privacy reform. The group, counting the biggest civil society organisations in Austria such as Amnesty International and two labour unions, demands in an open letter sent on 6 November 2018 an end to the apparently never-ending deliberations between the EU member states.

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March 11, 2004

German government rejects data retention

On Friday 12 March the German Parliament (Bundestag) will discuss the proposal for a new Telecommunication Law in second and third reading. The government coalition (made up of Social Democrats and Greens) has softened many of the proposed new telecommunication surveillance powers. There won’t be mandatory general data retention and the costs of handing-over data […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

Romania: After PNR, a proposal for retention of tourist data

On 15 July 2015, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament narrowly voted in favour of the EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive proposal (32 in favour, 26 against, no abstentions), a mass surveillance measure to collect and process air traveller data for profiling purposes. This came after […]

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