Results for node/retention

June 30, 2004

European court condemns Dutch for faulty privacy-legislation

The European Court has condemned the kingdom of the Netherlands for a faulty implementation of the Privacy directive of 1997, also known as the ISDN-directive. In the Dutch telecommunication law of 1998 the obligation to erase or anonymise traffic data after termination of the call was not made specific enough, leaving ample room to the […]

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December 18, 2019 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Austrian government hacking law is unconstitutional

On 11 December 2019, the Austrian Constitutional Court decided that the surveillance law that permits the use of spying software to read encrypted messages violates the fundamental right to respect for private life (article 8 ECHR), the fundamental right to data protection (§ 1 Austrian data protection law) and the constitutionally granted right that prohibits unreasonable searches (Art 9 Austrian bill of rights – Staatsgrundgesetz).

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September 13, 2006

License to hack: domestic Internet intelligence powers growing in Germany

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz) in the German state of North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) will be allowed to hack into the computers of terrosist suspects, if a bill currently under discussion in the state parliament is adopted. According to the bill, the agency will get the new competence […]

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March 23, 2011

The Privacy Platform Meeting: Reding outlines the way forward

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Privacy Platform Meeting: Kommissarin Reding skizziert den Weg | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.6_Privacy_Platform_Meeting] On 16 March 2011, Sophie In’t Veld’s Privacy Platform met in the European Parliament to discuss the state of play for the review of the data protection directive. The cross-party meeting was co-chaired by EU Parliament members from […]

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June 17, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Hooray! Bits of Freedom freed the data of millions of people from the clutches of the secret services!

The Complaints Department of the Review Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD), the Dutch supervisor of the secret services, ruled that EDRi member Bits of Freedom is right!

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May 10, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Do you trust the police? CJEU Advocate General accepts access to phones for any type of crime

In its opinion on the Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck case, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice is failing to suggest adequate safeguards for police access to our smartphones.

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March 19, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Written submission: Civil society shows evidence gaps in “Going Dark” group proposal for access to data for law enforcement

On 28 February 2024, EDRi and its members submitted written comments on the work of the High-Level Group (HLG) on “access to data for effective law enforcement". This HLG was set up under the Swedish Presidency of the Council in 2023 to allegedly find solutions to law enforcement ‘modern challenges’ in the digital era.

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November 22, 2006

Logging of IP addresses banned in Germany

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 January 2006, the District Court of Darmstadt (Germany) ruled that the German ISP T-Online was legally banned from logging the session IP addresses it assigned to its customers. German law requires this data to be deleted upon termination of the connection as it is not […]

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January 13, 2015 · Blogs

Privacy Camp: Big data and ever increasing state surveillance

As every year, EDRi is co-organising a privacy camp for civil society as a warm-up event for the CPDP conference. The event will discuss big data and every increasing state surveillance and the sessions will focus on privacy and data protection challenges and possibilities in Europe. It will take place on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 […]

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May 22, 2019 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Passenger surveillance brought before courts in Germany and Austria

EDRi members Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights) and Epicenter.works have taken legal action against the mass retention and processing of Passenger Name Records (PNR) before German and Austrian courts and authorities. The European PNR Directive (Directive 2016/681) requires airlines to automatically transfer their passengers’ data to state authorities. There, the data are […]

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December 5, 2005

Urgency procedure for draft French anti-terrorism law

The French government has decided to apply the urgency procedure to a new anti-terrorism draft law, with only one reading by each Chamber. The draft law was already passed by the National Assembly (French Lower House) on 29 November 2005 and will be examined by the French Senate in late December or early January 2006. […]

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December 5, 2005

Launch of Digital Rights Ireland

Digital Rights Ireland will formally launch at a press conference in the Conference Room in Pearse Street Library, at 11-am on Tuesday 6 December. The group has been formed to defend civil, human and legal rights in a digital age. Digital Rights Ireland will be discussing its mission, and current developments in relation to Data […]

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