Results for node/retention

February 24, 2010

New Google's service raises privacy concerns

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neuer Google-Dienst erweckt Datenschutzbedenken | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1728] The new networking service issued by Google company called Google Buzz has met criticism and confusion from its users who complained that a list of people they frequently email or chat with has appeared on their profile. The problem occurred due to […]

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February 24, 2010

Romania: Moral damages for publishing personal data online

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänien: Schadensersatz aufgrund des Online-Veröffentlichens persönlicher Daten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1729] A Romanian local court has decided to award 10 000 Euro as moral damages to a private person, after his full details were published on the website of the City Hall, including his HIV-related problems. In June 2008, Bucharest […]

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February 24, 2010

Germany DPAs to discuss the EU-US Safe Harbour Agreement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Datenschutzbehörden debattieren über das Safe Harbour-Abkommen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1730] The German data protection authorities want to have a meeting on the EU-US data protection Safe Harbour agreement and to agree on a resolution on this matter. Heise reports that some of the German Lander Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) […]

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March 11, 2009

Yahoo penalised in Belgium for not disclosing personal data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Yahoo in Belgien für versäumte Offenlegung persönlicher Daten abgestraft| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1333] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Јаху казнет во Белгија поради… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1403/4/lang,mk/] Yahoo was fined by a Belgian court on 2 March 2009 for refusing to hand over to the Belgium authorities personal data of people […]

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March 10, 2010

ECJ: The Data Protection Authorities need to be completely independent

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH: Datenschutzbehörden müssen vollkommen unabhängig sein | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1756] A European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision made public on 9 March 2010 in the case of the European Commission vs. Germany rules that the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) established in accordance with the Data Protection Directive 95/46 needs to […]

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March 25, 2009

Telecom Package in second reading – dangerous amendments

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Das Telekompaket in der zweiten Lesung – gefährliche Zusätze | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1342] Several alarming amendments to the Telecom Package second reading in the European Parliament are to be voted on 31 March 2009 by ITRE/IMCO committee. The amendments are meant to give additional control to the entertainment industry, telecoms […]

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March 25, 2009

Data sharing legislation pulled by the UK government

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Gesetzgebung zur Datenweitergabe von der Britischen Regierung gestoppt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1345] The campaign of Privacy International and of other civil liberties groups against data sharing legislation in UK resulted in the UK Government decision to abandon Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill. The respective clause was giving […]

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March 10, 2010

Survey on Chip implants in Germany

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Gutachten zu Chipimplantaten in Deutschland | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1761] According to a survey carried out by German IT industry lobby group BITKOM, 23% out of 1000 German respondents would accept to have a microchip implanted in their body if that would bring concrete benefits from it. The survey was meant […]

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September 26, 2007

German police does not understand Tor

Alexander Janssen, a German operator of a Tor exit server, has recently revealed in his blog that, at the end of July 2007, the German police arrested him, checked out his entire house and seized his equipment during an investigation of bomb threats considered to have passed through an Internet protocol address that was under […]

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April 8, 2009

Behavioural targeting at the European Consumer Summit

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Behavioural Targeting am Europäischen Verbrauchergipfel | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1359] The European Commission Directorate – General for Health & Consumers organized the European Consumer Summit on “Consumer Trust in the Digital Market Place” held in Brussels on 1 and 2 April, 2009. The agenda featured policy workshops on ‘Consumer challenges and […]

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April 8, 2009

Phorm – under scrutiny at the European level

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [http://www.unwatched.org/node/1361horm: Überprüfung auf Europäischer Ebene| ] On the event on 31 March 2009, the European Commissioner for consumers, Meglena Kuneva, warned on the transparency in the online environment: “We must establish the principles of transparency, clear language, opt-in or opt-out options that are meaningful and easy to use. […]

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April 7, 2010

Personal data: a comic book for European young adults

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Personenbezogene Daten: Ein Comicheft für junge Europäer | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1830] Information and communication technologies (telephone, Internet, emails, blogs and social networks) make daily life and relationships with our relatives, friends or even strangers easier. Young people and young adults make a particularly intense use of them. However, unless we […]

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