Results for node/retention

February 2, 2012 · Blogs

ACTA fact sheet

Recently, we have seen many rumours and half-truths about ACTA being circulated by campaigners on all sides. And, as the European Commission’s “fact sheet” 10 Myths about ACTA shows, there are also still a lot of misunderstandings. Many decision makers and citizens seem not yet to be aware of ACTA’s serious implications. In the following, […]

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May 19, 2010

Industry proposed RFID Privacy Impact Assessment Framework

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Industrie schlägt einen Rahmen zur Bewertung der Auswirkungen von RFID auf die Privatsphäre vor | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1930] Following the RFID recommendation issued by the European Commission on 12.05.2009, an informal working group on the implementation on the recommendation was set up, especially focusing on the task of creating a […]

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January 27, 2016 · Blogs

Academics under attack in Turkey

1128 academics from Turkish universities signed an open letter urging the government to stop using curfews to facilitate the violence ongoing for weeks in Kurdish towns. The number of local signatories increased to 2212 by 20 January 2016, including 30 Nobel Prize winners. Moreover, the letter heading “We Will Not Be A Party To This […]

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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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October 10, 2007

UK fails to properly implement the EU data protection directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) is concerned about the way the UK has implemented the provisions for protecting personal data, according to information revealed by out-law.com following freedom of information requests. An investigation has been initiated by the EC three years ago regarding the way the UK legislation […]

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March 7, 2018 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Czech BBA for Ministry of Industry and Trade for data retention

The winners of the 13th edition of the Czech Big Brother Awards were announced on 15 February 2018 in Prague.

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January 28, 2015 · Blogs

French Patriot Act: Do we really need more surveillance?

On 21 January, only two weeks after the attacks in Paris, the French government announced a big bundle of new security measures, a “general mobilisation against terrorism”. But does the country need more surveillance? France has introduced telecommunications data retention for communications more than ten years ago, it has extensive video surveillance and intelligence services […]

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September 22, 2010

Commissioner Malmström sets out her agenda to the European Parliament

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommissarin Malmström stellt ihre Agenda vor | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2201] In a Committee meeting last week and in the Parliament’s plenary session this week, Commissioner Malmström has set out her vision on various upcoming issues in her portfolio. In the Committee, Malmström drew attention to the Communications on information sharing […]

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