Results for node/retention

July 30, 2003

French IP commission promotes internet-surveillance

On 26 June a special copyright advisory board within the French Ministry of Culture published a report supporting government plans to increase surveillance of Internet users as part of a wider bid to stop the online copying of protected works. The Superior Council for Artistic and Literary Intellectual Property (Conseil Supérieur de la Propriété Littéraire […]

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March 14, 2007

French High Court cancels the creation of illegal migrants database

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a decision published on 13 March, the Conseil d’État, the French highest administrative court, cancelled the ministerial order (“Arrêté”) by which the Interior Ministry created the ELOI file, a database aimed at facilitating the expulsion of illegal migrants. On 2 October 2006, four French NGOs filed […]

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May 18, 2016 · Blogs

Danish ticketing system a threat to privacy

Like many countries, Denmark is replacing paper tickets for public transportation with electronic tickets. The Danish system, called Rejsekort (“travel card”), is a contactless chip card similar to the Oyster card in the United Kingdom and the OV-chipkaart in the Netherlands. At the start of the journey, the passenger holds the card in front of […]

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April 12, 2006

US wants access to retained traffic data

Unites States has indicated in a recent meeting with the EU Council that it will be interested in accessing the traffic data collected by the European countries according with the recent Directive on Data Retention. Also the US officials expressed concerns over the draft Framework Decision on Data Protection. During the EU-US informal High Level […]

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September 7, 2011

ENDitorial: Abuse of Irish police databases

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Missbrauch der irischen Polizeidatenbanken | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.17_ENDitorial_Missbrauch_der_irischen_Polizeidatenbanken?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110907] In 2003, the then Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, stated that he “knew that journalists were bribing gardaí (police)”. This was said in the context of proposed legislation which would create a crime of leaking information. Unfortunately, the intervening years seem […]

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June 28, 2017 · Blogs

An end to copyright blackmail letters in Finland?

On 12 June, the Finnish Market Court ruled in a case Copyright Management Services Ltd vs. DNA Oyj that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are not obliged to hand out the personal data of their clients based only on the suspicion of limited use of peer-to-peer networks. Stronger proof of significant copyright infringements need to be […]

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June 20, 2007

Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy International (PI) has undertaken a study that reveals the privacy threats and rank the positions in this matter of key players on the Internet services market. The objective of the research is not only to point fingers but also to find out trends and emergent issues […]

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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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October 16, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Civil society calls for the deletion of the #censorshipmachine

Today, 16 October, European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 56 other civil society organisations, sent an open letter to EU decision makers. The letter calls for the deletion of the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal, pointing out that monitoring and filtering of internet content that it proposes breach citizens’ fundamental rights.

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January 28, 2009

France: Who have they forgotten to control today?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, has published on 20 January 2009 a report on a massive control operation it conducted on the STIC (“Système de traitement des infractions constatées” or “Recorded offences treatment system”), a huge police database. The report reveals that the STIC is […]

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July 5, 2006

Consultation launched by UK government on the controversial RIPA act

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK government has launched a consultation on codes of practice covering the implementation of its communications surveillance laws that, lately, have been largely debated on by privacy campaigners, internet service providers as well as security specialists. The UK Government has launched a public consultation on Part I […]

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September 9, 2015 · Blogs

Austria creates new agency with unprecedented surveillance powers

In the midst of the biggest surveillance scandal of mankind and after years of criticism about rogue secret agencies spying on politicians and the government bodies supposed to control them, Austria is planning to establish a new secret agency. Austria’s draft state security law, “Staatsschutzgesetz”, grants new, far reaching surveillance powers while reducing oversight and […]

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