Results for node/retention

December 8, 2014 · Blogs

Ground-breaking paper on internet rule of law launched by Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner

Today, 8 December 2014, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Nils Muižnieks, released a so-called “Issue Paper” on The rule of law on the Internet and in the wider digital world, with important conclusions and recommendations. They cover four topics of particular interest to EDRi: privatised law enforcement, suspicionless mass data […]

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March 9, 2016 · Blogs

UK’s mass surveillance law being rushed through legislative process

Last week, the UK government published the Investigatory Powers Bill, a new surveillance law that has been heavily criticised by privacy and free speech activists, the technology industry, lawyers and academics. A draft version of the Bill was published in November 2015 and scrutinised by three parliamentary committees. Between them, they made 123 recommendations for […]

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November 8, 2021

Enforcing Europe – Series 2: Quo vadis, data retention? The indeterminable quest for proportionality

The Series is organised by the joint research project MATIS of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Luxembourg (co-funded by FWO and FNR), in cooperation with the Brussels Privacy Hub.

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August 26, 2009

Google's Street View contested in France and Switzerland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Googles Street View in Frankreich und der Schweiz angefochten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1498] After being criticised and contested in several countries in Europe, such as UK, Germany and Greece and even outside Europe like in Japan, it is the turn of France and Switzerland to complain against Google’s service Street […]

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September 23, 2009

"Freedom not Fear" 2009 – Protests Against the Surveillance Mania

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [„Freiheit statt Angst“ 2009 – Proteste gegen den Überwachungswahn | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1521] On Saturday, 12 September 2009, civil liberties activists in many countries again took it to the streets under the motto “Freedom not Fear – Stop the Surveillance Mania”. It was the second time these activities took place […]

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October 20, 2010

Danish tax authorities want to mirror hard disks of private companies

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Dänische Steuerbehörde will Festplatten privater Unternehmen spiegeln | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2277] A new proposed law would allow the Danish tax authorities to simply mirror entire hard disks of companies without a court order and before they have a reason to suspect the company has engaged in unlawful activities. The proposal […]

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December 1, 2010

Data protection authorities call for a strict EU-US privacy agreement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WP29 fordert strenges EU-US Datenschutz-Abkommen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2390] As the European Commission prepares to conclude a deal with the US on the protection of personal data exchanged in police and criminal justice cooperation matters, the European privacy watchdogs call for a strict and clear privacy agreement. Article 29 Data […]

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December 15, 2010

Sweden's high court sends IP-data protection conflict to the ECJ

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Oberster Schwedischer Gerichtshof verweist Streit um Schutz von IP-Adressen an den EuGH | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2444] The Swedish ISP TeliaSonera has recently received a decision at the Swedish Supreme Court that questions a 2009 court decision forcing it to hand over the identity of SweTorrents BitTorrent site operator. In 2009, […]

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March 11, 2009

EP wants a better balance between Internet security and privacy rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP will ein besseres Gleichgewicht zwischen Internetsicherheit und den Rechten auf Privatsphäre | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1329] On 5 March 2009, during a hearing of the Civil Liberties and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the current framework on security and privacy on the Internet, Members […]

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April 8, 2009

EP needs to protect users' rights in the Telecom Package!

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP hat die Rechte der Nutzer im Telekompaket zu schützen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1355] The new developments on the Telecom Package over the last two weeks, with the approval of a new text in the IMCO (Internal Market Committee) of the European Parliament (EP) and the initiation of the trialogue […]

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September 26, 2007

Human Rights in the Information Society – rediscover the proportionality

On 13-14 September 2007 the French Commission for UNESCO, UNESCO and the Council of Europe organised the conference “Ethics and Human Rights in the Information Society” in Strasbourg, to which EDRi was invited to contribute. This conference was the third in a cycle of regional conferences on the ethical dimensions of the information society, which […]

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April 8, 2009

Second PrivacyOS Conference

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zweite PrivacyOS Konferenz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1360] Meetings between researchers from universities with representatives from industry, data protection authorities, standardizers from W3C and ISO and NGOs to discuss privacy challenges and develop privacy infrastructures represent the idea behind the European Privacy Open Space. The second PrivacyOS event was held in […]

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