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Key privacy concerns in Czech Republik 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Last year has seen an increased number attempts from government bodies to extend their powers and make it easier to access people’s private information. To name a few, there were legal proposals to increase the number of agencies authorized to access and process electronic communication data collected […]
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Key privacy concerns in Ireland 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) a. Data Retention Litigation The Digital Rights Ireland litigation against data retention, which was started in September 2006, continues before the High Court. This action challenges both the Directive and also Ireland’s domestic data retention laws. It alleges that those laws are procedurally flawed and are also […]
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Key privacy concerns in Romania 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy and data protection seems not to be a hot topic for the Romanian society. The media is generally ignoring the topic, unless something related to an important public figure is making the subject out of the ordinary. The Romanian Data Protection Authority has failed in becoming […]
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German data retention act challenged
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Just five days after the German President Horst Köhler approved the German data retention law that entered into force on 1 January 2008, the German Working group on data retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) challenged the law in the Federal German Constitutional Court. The complaint was filed with the […]
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PI: Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK-based human rights group Privacy International (PI) published at the end of last year the 2007 ranking assessment of the state of privacy in 47 countries, including all European Union member states. The raking is based on the Privacy & Human Rights reports produced since 1997 by […]
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German Parliament adopted the data retention law
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Federal Parliament adopted on 10 November 2007 the law that implements the EU data retention directive in the German legislation by amending the current wire tapping legislation. This has triggered a strong reaction of the opposition and civil society, more than 13 000 citizens signing […]
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Largest anti-surveillance street protest in Germany for 20 years
On Saturday, 22 September 2007, more than 15,000 took to the streets of Berlin under the slogan “Liberty instead of Fear – stop the Surveillance Mania!”. Several Civil Liberty organisations, affiliated in the “Working Group Data Retention” (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung), organised the march. 55 groups called for participation, among them the “Young Liberals” (Junge Liberale, Youth […]
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Data retention for one year for UK telecom companies
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The transposition into the UK law of most part of the EU Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) was approved on 24 July 2007 by the House of Lords and signed the next day by the Home Secretary. The approval followed after a period of public consultation proposed by […]
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Traffic data could be retained for one year in Spain
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish Plenary Congress of Deputies approved on 21 June 2007 the draft law on the retention of traffic data requiring fixed and mobile telephony, but also ISPs to retain data for a period of one year and to make it available to law enforcement or secret […]
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The Austrian government has postponed the law for data retention
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A spokesman of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology has confirmed that due to the flood of responses to the law proposal there is no way to have data retention ready before the deadline set by the directive. The ministry received a total of 90 […]
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German legislation troubles the big Internet companies
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Yahoo and Google seems to have problems adapting their business to the tough requirements of the German law regarding content harmful to minors and the implementation of the data retention directive, respectively. Yahoo has recently changed the way the content filter setting for its photo-sharing service Flickr […]
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Google answers Article 29 Working Party on data protection standards
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has answered several questions related to its data protection standards addressed by the Article 29 Working Party, especially on the period after which the anonymisation of the search server logs can be obtained. Initially Google announced in March 2007 a reduction of the retention period for […]
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