Results for node/retention

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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October 25, 2023 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Why your data might already be on a Europol list

Police forces around Europe seem hooked on the habit of collecting information on a massive scale and forwarding it to the EU's police agency, Europol. This undermines privacy, fair trial rights and the presumption of innocence.

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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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January 11, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

European Commission discusses “Going Dark”: Behind closed doors

EDRi and 20 organisations call on the High Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement for greater transparency and participation of all stakeholders.

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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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September 18, 2017 · Blogs

FnF 2017: Register for travel support until 22 September!

Freedom not Fear, an annual barcamp organised by EDRi member Digitalcourage for European digital rights activists, takes place in Brussels the weekend of 6-9 October 2017. The event takes place at Mundo B in Brussels and is open for everyone – there are no registrations. Participants that extend their stay to visit the European Parliament […]

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October 24, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices

ePrivacy: Public benefit or private surveillance?

92 weeks after the proposal was published, the EU is still waiting for an ePrivacy Regulation. The Regulation is supposed to replace the current ePrivacy Directive, aligning it with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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