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October 20, 2010

Facebook applications raise new privacy concerns again

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neuerliche Datenschutzprobleme bei Facebook Apps | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2275] Facebook continues to raise concerns related to the privacy of its users’ personal data. According to an investigation made by Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Facebook applications such as FarmVille have been supplying identifying information of its users to several online advertising […]

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November 18, 2009

UK Home Office steps back in the project to intercept communications

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britisches Innenministerium tritt vom Projekt zur Abhörung von Anschlüssen zurück | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1585] The Home Office’s plan (known as the Interception Modernisation Programme) to put under surveillance everyone’s email, mobile phone, text and Internet communications has been put on hold, following the outcomes of a consultation launched in April […]

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November 18, 2009

Commission Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Workshop der Kommission über datenschutzfreundliche Technologien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1587] The European Commission held a workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) on 12 November 2009. The event was supposed to be on the interim report from London Economics on the economic impact of PETs but ended up by being considerably […]

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November 18, 2009

Bank Data Transfer to US about to be stopped

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bankdatentransfer an die USA kurz vor dem Abbruch | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1588] The Swedish EU presidency and the United States government have finalized a draft agreement on bank data transfer for anti-terrorism purposes in mid-November. While the negotiations over the so-called “SWIFT agreement” were held exclusively behind closed doors, the […]

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November 18, 2009

Freedom of expression vs right to be forgotten?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung vs. das Recht vergessen zu werden? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1589] A cease and desist letter sent by a Germany law firm to the English Wikipedia asked for a name to be removed from several articles. The law firm is representing a convicted murderer, released on […]

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October 20, 2010

European Commission high-level discussions on data protection

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission: Datenschutz-Diskussion auf höchster Ebene | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2280] Commissioner Reding recently invited a wide variety of representatives from industry, civil society, academia and law enforcement bodies to a high-level meeting in the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. The dossier is clearly a major priority for Ms Reding, who […]

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November 18, 2009

EDPS Seminar: Responding to data breaches

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Seminar des Europäischen Datenschutzbeauftragten: Reaktion auf Datenverletzungen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1590] On 23 October 2009 the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) organised a seminar on security breaches. The three sessions focussed on the prevention, the management and the reporting of data […]

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October 20, 2010

Spanish DPA opens infringement procedures for Google Streetview

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanische Datenschutzbehörde leitet Verfahren gegen Google Street View ein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2282] The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has opened an infringement proceeding against Google after completing the preliminary inspection activities which started in May on the collection and storage without consent of Wi-Fi networks location data and traffic […]

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November 18, 2009

Google's Street View faces trial in Switzerland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Googles Street View steht vor einer Klage in der Schweiz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1594] Switzerland continues its actions against Goggle’s Street View service. The Swiss Data Protection Authority has recently expressed its firm intention to bring Google to court on the matter. In August 2009, the Swiss Privacy Authority asked […]

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November 3, 2010

Google admits it was gathering passwords and emails via StreetView

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google gesteht Sammlung von Passwörtern und E-Mails via StreetView ein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2323] Google faces further investigation in the UK and Italy, after it has publicly admitted in a blog post on 22 October 2010 that its StreetView service has gathered more data than intended, “in some instances entire […]

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December 2, 2009

Stockholm programme adopted by the European Parliament

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament nimmt Stockholmer Programm an| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1610] After six months of preparation, the European Union has almost reached agreement (somewhat behind schedule) on its 5-year plan for policy in the area of “freedom, security and justice”, better known as the “Stockholm Programme”. Discussions on this proposal took place […]

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December 2, 2009

Legal Complaints and Petition Against Second French "Horror Database"

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rechtliche Klagen und Petition gegen zweite französische „Horror-Datenbank“| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1611] The French coalition of groups, associations, trade unions and political parties from the opposition is making it clear after its first successful ‘No to EDVIGE’ in 2008 led to the withdrawal of the EDVIGE intelligence database by the French […]

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