Results for node/retention

June 4, 2003

Irish DPA threatens government with court case

According to an article in the Irish Times of 26 May, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner Mr Joe Meade has twice threatened to begin High Court proceedings against the Government for using an “invalid” Ministerial Direction to unconstitutionally store citizens’ phone, fax and mobile call data for 3 years. As reported in EDRI-gram nr. 3, […]

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April 6, 2016 · Blogs

CJEU hearing on the EU Canada PNR agreement: Still shady

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) had a hearing on 5 April to decide about the referral made on 25 November by the European Parliament on the EU-Canada agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR). Passenger Name Records (PNR) include information provided by passengers and collected by air carriers for commercial purposes, such as, but not […]

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May 24, 2006

German Constitutional Court has outlawed preventive data screening

On 22 May the German Constitutional Court has declared illegal under the German Constitution the practice of screening data across several private and public databases in order to find potential terrorists (“sleepers”). Several federal states will now have to change their police laws. The decision does not make data screening (“Rasterfahndung”, literally: “grid investigation”, usual […]

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October 23, 2012

UN Agencies: A growing threat for the Internet?

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), led by Russian diplomat, Yury Fedotov, has just released a report (pdf) arguing for more surveillance and retention of data on all communications, even in the total absence of suspicion. Coincidentally, the Coordinator of the elegantly named 1267 Committee that was in charge of the report […]

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February 11, 2004

EU Commission heads for global travel surveillance system

The UK civil liberties group Privacy International, in co-operation with European Digital Rights, the Foundation for Information Policy Research and Statewatch, has published an analysis of the EU-US negotiations on the transfer on passenger information (PNR). The report titled ‘Transferring Privacy’ describes how the European Commission leaves European privacy rights at the mercy of the […]

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January 28, 2009

EU proposal puts confidential communications data at risk

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Civil liberties groups La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi), AK Vorrat, and Netzpolitik.org are urging the European Parliament to heed advice given by the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx and scrap plans dubbed “voluntary data retention”. “A proposal currently discussed in the European Parliament […]

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January 28, 2009

Data protection in Italy: Loudly more of the same

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) I am sorry to say that I am skeptical about “days” dedicated to this or that cause or problem. They are often ignored, sometimes briefly celebrated, rarely leave any relevant trace over time. There are so many that we shall soon have one a week – and […]

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January 28, 2009

Romania: Is really privacy a topic in the public debate?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy is a sporadic keyword in the Romanian mass-media. And even less used in public speech. Becoming an ideal motivation only when talking about some local stars’ private life and their juicy intricacies, the real debate on the most important issues lacks completely. The Human Rights Committees […]

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March 11, 2004

Cappato report about privacy adopted

On 9 March the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the implementation of the Data Protection Directive of 1995 (95/46/EC), based on an own-initiative report by the Italian radical Marco Cappato. The report is very critical about the lack of adequate privacy protection in Europe. The report centres on data protection within the third pillar […]

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August 1, 2007

Search engines dealing with privacy standards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has recently announced a new change in its privacy policies by reducing its cookies lifetime to just two years, but experts warn this is more a PR move than a substantial one. However, other search engines started the discussions on their privacy issues. A new post […]

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August 27, 2008

Call for worldwide protests against surveillance

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Civil rights organizations call for protests against the constant increase of surveillance conducted by governments and enterprises. A rally under the motto “Freedom not Fear” will be held in Berlin on 11 October 2008. The organizers agree that it is high time to take to the streets […]

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October 22, 2008

Some amendments of the EP voted Telecom package still worrying

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Some of the amendments passed by the European Parliament (EP) on the Telecom package are still worrying the civil rights groups, both on data retention and IP issues. Also, the fact that some amendments of the EP do not appear in the new document of the European […]

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