Results for node/retention

May 9, 2012

ENDitorial: ACTA is not dead

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: ACTA ist noch nicht am Ende | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.9_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120509] Next week, the European Parliament’s Development Committee (DEVE), the first of the five Committees responsible for providing opinions on the proposed ACTA agreement will vote on its draft recommendation. As of today, it appears more likely than not that […]

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January 15, 2014 · Blogs

Google was fined by French and Spanish Data Protection Authorities

On 19 December 2013, Google was fined by the AEPD – Spanish Data Protection Authority (DPA) with 900 000 Euro for breaching the Spanish data protection provisions. Later on, on 3 January 2014, Google was given the maximum 150 000 Euro fine by CNIL (the French Data Protection Authority) ‘s Sanctions Committee for non-compliance with […]

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March 9, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: PNR – political finger-pointing, no viable legislation

The EU Passenger Name Record Directive (or ‘PNR Directive’) would require the storage of travel data for airline passengers, ostensibly for law enforcement purposes. The specialist European Parliament committee responsible for the proposal rejected it in 2013 but adopted the proposal in 2015, following the terrorist attacks. The European Parliament recently decided not to schedule […]

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December 1, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

UN Special Rapporteurs challenge EU’s counter-terrorism plans

Through their communication, the Special Rapporteurs demonstrate how several existing and foreseen EU security measures fail to meet the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality, enshrined in European and international laws (such as the Regulation on preventing the dissemination of Terrorism Content Online and the processing by Europol of sensitive data for profiling purposes). The fatal flaw lies in the use of broad and undefined terms to justify extensive interferences in human rights.

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January 30, 2008

European Parliament hearing on Internet privacy issues

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During a hearing of the European Parliament (EP)’s Civil Liberties Committee, on 21 January 2008, serious data protection concerns were raised by the practice of large Internet companies that monitor the online behaviour of their users in order to provide online advertisers with the necessary information to […]

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June 4, 2003

Belgian DPA investigates transfer of passenger data

Following a complaint from European parliament member Marco Cappato the Belgian data protection office is investigating a possible violation of European privacy law by the airline carriers Continental Airlines and United Airlines. Mr Cappato sent a letter to the Belgian data protection commissioner urging his office to investigate the transfer of his personal data to […]

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June 15, 2011

Facebook's face recognition raises privacy complaints

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Besorgnis über Facebooks Gesichtserkennung | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.12_Besorgnis_ueber_Facebooks_Gesichtserkennung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110623] Facebook has again been criticised by privacy advocates for its facial recognition feature that has recently been added to the social networking service, world-wide, without any previous announcement to its users. Facebook users have the possibility to ‘tag’ themselves and their friends […]

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May 23, 2012

Amesys – Complicity in torture: surveillance tech export control needed

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Amesys’ Mittäterschaft bei Folterungen: Kontrolle des Exports von Überwachungstechnologien gefordert | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_Amesys_Mittaeterschaft_bei_Folterungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] The Paris Court Prosecutor decided on 21 May 2012 to probe the Amesys company, a BULL’s subsidiary, over complicity of torture in Libya under Kadhafi. The investigation, which follows a criminal complaint jointly filed by the […]

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May 22, 2013 · Blogs

Complaints against Irish DPA's lack of action against Facebook

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Beschwerden über die Untätigkeit der irischen Datenschutzbehörde in Sachen Facebook | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_Beschwerden_ueber_die_Untaetigkeit_der_irischen_Datenschutzbehoerde_in_Sachen_Facebook?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] Ireland’s data protection authority, ODPC, seems to be deaf to citizens’ complaints against Facebook. According to the non-profit association “Europe versus Facebook”, during the last two years, there have been about 1 000 complaints against Facebook […]

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February 2, 2006

EU Visa Database under scrutiny of the European Data Protection

In a public opinion from 20 January 2006, Mr. Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, was very critical about the wide access possibilities the European Commission wanted to give to the new Visa Information System. The Commission published its “Proposal for a Council Decision concerning access for consultation of the Visa Information System (VIS)” […]

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January 30, 2008

Personal sensitive data keep on being lost in UK

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Many documents with confidential data including benefit claims, passport photocopies and mortgage payments were found on 17 January 2008 lost on a roundabout near Exeter Airport in Devon, UK. Mr Karl-Heinz Korzenietz, the finder of the documents, told BBC News: “I thought first of all it was […]

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May 22, 2013 · Blogs

Apple’s privacy policy breaches German data protection laws

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Apples Datenschutzpolitik verstößt gegen deutsches Recht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_Apples_Datenschutzpolitik_verstoesst_gegen_deutsches_Recht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130530] The Berlin Regional Court ruled on 7 May 2013 that 8 of Apple’s privacy policy clauses are infringing the German data protection laws and asked the company to rectify them. The case was brought to court by the German consumer […]

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