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Google fined for Street View violating privacy in Italy
Google has paid a 1 million euro fine imposed by Garante Privacy, the Italian data protection authority. The case dates back to 2010 when, Google’s Street View cars drove across the country without being labeled clearly enough to be perfectly recognisable, and thus violating the privacy of citizens being photographed without their knowledge. The data […]
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Data Retention ruled invalid: what does this mean for Kosovo?
The European Court of Justice published on on 8 April its verdict on the Data Retention Directive, ruling it invalid. The court’s decision follows years of strict enforcement by the Commission, which has gone so far as to seek financial penalties from a number of Member States that did not implement the measure on time. […]
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OHCHR consultation in connection with GA Resolution 68 167
On 1 April 2014, several EDRi members, including Article 19, Access and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with Privacy International, the Association for Progressive Communications, Human Rights Watch and the World Wide Web Foundation submitted a response to the consultation undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The consultation was […]
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Launch of WePromise.eu: Helping voters to win the European Parliament elections
Press release – Brussels, April 1st. The We Promise campaign was formally launched today in the European Parliament. Parliamentarians from across the political divide joined forces with European Digital Rights to support the campaign. Paweł Zalewski MEP (EPP) opened the event with an introductory video message. He highlighted the importance of adapting copyright to the […]
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UK privacy groups file complaint on medical data in Google Cloud
UK privacy groups Big Brother Watch, medConfidential and the EDRi member Foundation for Information Policy Research have filed a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s data protection authority. The complaint follows revelations that PA Consulting Group, a technology and innovation consultancy, uploaded a large quantity of data to Google’s cloud-based Big Data service […]
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Extensive surveillance in the draft Finnish cyber intelligence law
Finnish government is in process of preparing of a new law on cyber intelligence. The draft by the Ministry of Defence working group preparing the law suggests giving the authorities such as Security Intelligence Service, National Bureau of Investigation, Communications Regulatory Authority and Defence Forces a mandate for a wide surveillance of online communications, including […]
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Danish government plans to create a Center for Cybersecurity with privacy-invasive powers
In 2011, the Danish parliament voted unanimously to create a GovCERT service responsible for cybersecurity issues for government institutions and critical infrastructure. The 2011 law allows GovCERT to collect and retain traffic data (metadata) and packet data (contents) for the institutions and networks which are monitored by GovCERT. Data associated with security events can be […]
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US wants to undermine privacy in TTIP negotiations
In the EU-US trade negotiations (TTIP/TAFTA) the US tabled a proposal that would prohibit to require local data storage. If the EU accepts this proposal, the EU would give away an instrument essential to protect privacy. On 5 March 2014 the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament organised a meeting on the complex relationship between […]
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The promise of democracy – digital rights groups reprogram European elections
A project launched today will give voters an innovative new way to hold the European Parliament to account.However, nothing is for free – as a trade-off citizens must make a promise of their own – to vote in May’s European Parliament elections. The Wepromise.eu project proposes a “Charter of Digital Rights“. Candidates promise to uphold […]
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Passwords lost for 16 million email accounts
The German Federal Office for Online Security (BSI) revealed on 21 January 2014 that, according to information from law enforcement agencies and research institutions, the passwords and usernames for emails of approx 16 million users (in majority Germans) had been compromised. The theft was revealed in an analysis of illegal botnets. BSI said the computer […]
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UK government must justify its large-scale surveillance activities
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asks the UK government to justify how GCHQ’s practices comply with the right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention. The ECtHR’s action follows a case brought by Big Brother Watch, the EDRi member Open Rights Group, English PEN and the German Internet activist Constanze Kurz […]
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Data protection package delayed after the Euro elections
The EU’s much discussed data protection package will not be adopted before the elections for the European Parliament which are due in May 2014. “They have elaborated a road map and now they need to deliver on it basically but I think the political agreement to get this done before the end of the year […]
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