April 21, 2010

EU bank data transfer on the table of the EU institutions

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Transfer von EU-Bankdaten auf Agenda der EU-Institutionen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1870] The airline problems in Europe that have affected also many MEPs, have postponed a series of voting sessions scheduled for this week in Strasbourg, including the votes on PNR and SWIFT resolutions. The US Administration declared that it hoped […]

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July 6, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Mass surveillance of external travellers may go on, says EU’s highest court

On 21 June 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in case C-817/19 Ligue des droits humains from Belgium which challenged the validity of the Passenger Name Records (PNR) Directive. Regrettably, the PNR Directive as such was found to be compatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

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April 13, 2016 · Blogs

Press Release: Vote on Data Protection and Passenger Name Record package

The European Parliament looks set to adopt two proposals on data protection and a proposal on the profiling of air passengers (PNR, Passenger Name Records) tomorrow, 14 April. The two data protection proposals seek to protect our fundamental right to privacy. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) covers the protection of personal data across all […]

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October 21, 2015 · Blogs

FNF15: Privacy advocates’ summit in Brussels

Civil society has a big role in keeping governments on the right track. This is not only true at the national level, but also important with regard to policy-making in the EU. To enable civil society to do so, the annual Freedom not Fear (FNF) conference on 16-19 October in Brussels gathered participants from over […]

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Are the US-EU data agreements still alive?

Late on the first day of Computers, Data Protection and Privacy (CPDP) Conference on 25 January 2017, word came through that US President Donald Trump had issued Executive Order (EO), “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States”, which included the following: Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, […]

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February 11, 2004

EU Commission heads for global travel surveillance system

The UK civil liberties group Privacy International, in co-operation with European Digital Rights, the Foundation for Information Policy Research and Statewatch, has published an analysis of the EU-US negotiations on the transfer on passenger information (PNR). The report titled ‘Transferring Privacy’ describes how the European Commission leaves European privacy rights at the mercy of the […]

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October 22, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Malmström – Always there to protect US

Now that Commissioner Cecilia Malmström will be taking over as the EU’s Trade Commissioner, and as the Commissioner in charge of negotiating the controversial TTIP trade deal with the USA, it is a useful time to cast our minds back to her achievements as Commissioner with responsibility for Home Affairs in the European Union. Commissioner […]

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January 17, 2007

EU knew about the US's system profiling all visitors

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) New controversial issues appear in the case of Passanger Name Record (PNR) deal with US that show the level of privacy from the US authorities is very far from the European standards. As Statewatch revealed, the EU Council Presidency admitted that the Council of the European Union […]

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January 30, 2008

Main data protection concerns with the EU policy developments in 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Lisbon Treaty was signed in December 2007. Notwithstanding the many critics raised by this Treaty, the text, when ratified by all member States, will bring two major improvements to the EU and its citizens. First, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union will become […]

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June 1, 2011

Battle over Passenger Data is heating up

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kampf um Fluggastdaten heizt sich auf | http://bit.ly/kKACLl] In late May 2011, the new draft agreements on the transfer and retention of air passenger data between the EU and the United States and Australia respectively have leaked to the public. The re-negotiation of the agreements from 2007, which […]

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January 14, 2015 · Blogs

Legal Service Opinion on CJEU Data Retention ruling

The European Parliament (EP) legal services last week presented an opinion on the Court of Justice of the EU’s (CJEU) ruling on the Data Retention Directive (DRD) and its implications. The opinion, after restating the principles that are essential to permit any interference on fundamental rights (proportionality, justification and necessity), answered specific questions raised by […]

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March 27, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

EU Council Presidency outlines future counter-terrorism priorities

A note produced by the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union sets out the EU’s response to terrorism since 2015. It highlights the main measures adopted and calls for a “reflection process on the way forward” in a number of areas including “interoperability and extended use of biometrics”; implementing the EU Passenger […]

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