Results for node/retention

July 17, 2013 · Blogs

Finland: A new citizens initiative – Lex Snowden

EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) has submitted on 8 July 2013, with support from Avoin Ministeriö, a citizens’ legislative initiative, titled “Yes We Can – The law for safeguarding of freedom of expression and privacy internationally”, to the Ministry of Justice. If the initiative collects 50 000 names (almost 1% of total population of […]

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May 6, 2015 · Blogs

Emotion tracking company gets funding from the European Commission

Realeyes is a London based start-up company that tracks people’s facial reactions through webcams and smartphones in order to analyse their emotions. The analysed data is used to help companies maximise the impact of their advertising and market research campaigns. The technology allows the companies to know how consumers feel when they view the video […]

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March 26, 2008

Big Brother Awards – France 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 21 March 2008, Paris was the host of the French Big Brother awards ceremony for the year 2007. For the second time President Nicolas Sarkozy was excluded from the competition on grounds of “genetic predisposition” for attacks to personal life and freedoms. The jury has reached […]

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June 14, 2017 · Blogs

UN Rapporteur demands respect for freedom of expression online

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye has released a new report, which gives an overview of the problems for freedom of expression and opinion in the Telecommunications and Internet Access Sector. The report also provides general recommendations for states […]

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May 3, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Irish and French parliamentarians sound the alarm about EU’s CSA Regulation

The Irish parliament’s justice committee and the French Senate have become the latest voices to sound the alarm about the risk of general monitoring of people’s messages in the proposed Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Regulation.

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August 28, 2013 · Blogs

UK authorities press to get hold of Snowden affair’s documents

The echoes of the PRISM affair keep growing. On 21 August 2013, Secretary general Thorbjorn Jagland of the Council of Europe, addressed a letter to UK home secretary Theresa May asking for explanations regarding UK’s recent actions following the PRISM scandal. Jagland was especially referring to the retention at Heathrow airport, on 17 August 2013, […]

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June 1, 2016 · Blogs

Czech Republic: Non-transparent processing of sensitive health data

In the past weeks, both the Czech Parliament and the Senate gave their consent to the expansion of the National Health Information System. The system itself is comprised of registers which contain the health data of individuals, directly linked to their personal birth number. Aside from existing registers which typically have a specialised focus – […]

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November 26, 2004 · Blogs

An Open Letter to the European Parliament on Biometric Registration of all EU Citizens and Residents

!!To the Members of the European Parliament, We the undersigned are calling on you to reject the ‘Draft Council Regulation on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States’. This is an unnecessary and rushed policy that will have hazardous effects on Europeans’ right to privacy. This policy […]

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July 25, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Profiling practices

Smart Borders: the challenges remain a year after its adoption

After the initial rejection of the Smart Borders package in 2013, the European Parliament voted again on 25 October 2017 to finally adopt it, including the Entry/Exit System (EES) and amendments to integrate it into the Schengen Borders Code.

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April 9, 2008

ENDitorial: CoE – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The 9th meeting of the Council of Europe (CoE) group of specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS) was held in Strasbourg from 31 March to 2 April 2008. At the same time, on 1-2 April, another division of the CoE was holding in a […]

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June 15, 2016 · Blogs

Mobilisation for digital rights

This article is also available in Dutch: https://www.bof.nl/2016/07/11/mobilisatie-voor-digitale-rechten/ In a digital society, digital rights are simply our rights. They are our right to express ourselves freely, our right to a private life, our right to our possessions. But what if digital society fails to realise that our traditional rights and freedoms cannot always be defended by […]

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November 26, 2004

An Open Letter to the European Parliament on Biometric Registration of all EU Citizens and Residents

!!To the Members of the European Parliament, We the undersigned are calling on you to reject the ‘Draft Council Regulation on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States’. This is an unnecessary and rushed policy that will have hazardous effects on Europeans’ right to privacy. This policy […]

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