Results for node/retention

October 19, 2011

European action week on airline passenger surveillance

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Aktionswoche gegen Fluggastüberwachung | www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.20_Europaeische_Aktionswoche_gegen_Fluggastueberwachung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111028] Credit card details, hotel bookings, IP addresses, mobile phone numbers, and travel details: all this information is currently being transferred to law enforcement agencies in third countries. The storage and automatic processing of our data is supposed to enable law enforcement agencies […]

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November 5, 2003

Big Brother Awards presented across Europe

Privacy and civil liberty activists across Europe have presented their Big Brother Awards to governments, companies and persons that have excelled in violating the right to privacy. In a weeks period Award ceremonies were held in Germany (24 October), Spain (25 October), Austria (26 October) and Switzerland (1 November). In Germany prices went to German […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

Belgian Big Brother Awards 2014: The nominees

On 4 June 2014, the Belgian EDRi member Liga voor Mensenrechten will organize the 4th edition of the Big Brother Awards (BBA) in Belgium. The general public can decide on the person or organisation that will be “awarded” prizes for attacking citizens’ right to privacy. In the name of a greater “perception of security for […]

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June 17, 2015 · Blogs

EU continues push for travel surveillance by the back door

The European Commission has released its plans for providing financial support to national security measures. These plans, despite the absence of a legal basis, privacy concerns and a pending EU Court of Justice (CJEU) decision, include the financing of a European mass surveillance measure: namely the long-term storage and exchange of citizens’ air travel data, […]

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May 23, 2007

The Italian Big Brother Awards for 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 19 May 2007, the two-day e-Privacy Conference in Florence hosted the Big Brother Awards Italy. The candidates for the awards were selected by a jury made of seven members. The people’s choice price “The People’s lament” was won by far by Telecom Italia especially for the […]

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November 19, 2003

UK House of Lords approves snoopers' charter

On 13 November, the UK House of Lords unexpectedly approved a very controversial ‘Snoopers’ Charter’. The three pieces of secondary legislation approve a ‘voluntary’ data retention scheme, and give a long list of government agencies self-authorised access to phone and Internet logs. Throughout the debate it appeared that the government’s proposals to place every UK […]

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November 2, 2011

EU-Australia agreement on travel data transfers adopted by EP

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP: Fluggastdaten-Abkommen mit Australien beschlossen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_EP_Fluggastdaten_Abkommen_mit_Australien_beschlossen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] As expected, the European Parliament (EP) gave its consent to the agreement on Passenger Name Records with Australia (yes 463, no 96, abstentions 11) on 27 October 2011. It had already been signed by the Australian Ambassador, Brendan Nelson, and Ambassador […]

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June 7, 2006

EU-US agreement on passenger data transfer annulled

The European Parliament obtained the annulment by the European Court of Justice of the agreement between the European Community and the US Government on the transfer of passenger name records (PNR) from foreign carriers to the US with the view to combat terrorism and maintain national security. In order to prevent problems the agreement will […]

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October 10, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online

EU Parliament’s anti-terrorism draft Report raises major concerns

While the recommendations of the final Report will not be binding, it sets a bad precedent for EU citizens prior to the elections, and its impact could be greater than that of most other political statements.

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June 4, 2008 · Blogs

EDRI-gram – Number 6.11, 4 June 2008

Looking for the article Hungarian Data Retention Law – Challenged at the Constitutional Court’ ? Read it on our old website. Full EDRi-gram here.

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November 2, 2011

Austrian Big Brother Awards 2011

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreichische Big Brother Awards 2011 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Oesterreichische_Big_Brother_Awards_2011?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] The 13th consecutive Austrian Big Brother Awards were held in Vienna’s Rabenhof Theatre on 25 October 2011. Entrance had to be closed an hour before starting, the theatre was already packed then. 350+ people watched the show inside, many more saw […]

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June 6, 2007

RFID Expert Group – Kick Off

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the public consultations on RFID last year, the European Commission announced the creation of an RFID Expert Group to assist in drafting the future RFID strategy. The group’s kick-off meeting was held in Brussles last week. EDRi was invited to participate in the group. The Group […]

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