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Renewed rejection of data retention by European institutions
On 12 October the Council of ministers of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA Council) will debate about data retention once again, both about the framework decision and about the directive proposal from the European Commission. In response to the final launch of the Commission proposal on 21 September, the UK Presidency of the EU announced […]
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NL: Lower House hearing on data retention
On 28 September 2005 the Dutch Lower House commission on judicial affairs organised a public hearing about data retention, preceding the official debate on the need and usefulness of data retention on 5 October 2005. The commission invited two representatives from law enforcement, one from the telecom and internet world each as well as EDRI-member […]
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Petition update: over 50.000 signatures
The EDRI and XS4ALL petition against data retention has attracted over 50.000 signatures, of which over 20.000 from the Netherlands (where the campaign was launched), over 6.000 from Germany and 5.750 from Finland. Runners-up in the daily country count are Bulgaria and Sweden (over 2.000 each), followed by Spain (almost 2.000), Austria (over 1.500). Italy, […]
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Data retention proposal European Commission
The European Commission has finally launched its proposal for a directive on data retention. During a press conference today (21 September 2005), commissioner Frattini underlined how important it was that data retention would be decided in the first pillar, by Commission and Parliament and not by the ministers of Justice in the third pillar. Frattini […]
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EDRI-event at Data Protection Conference in Montreux
EDRI and a coalition of civil liberty groups has organised a pre-event at the international conference of data protection commissioners on 12 September in Montreux. The aim was to strengthen cooperation between NGOs and official data protection authorities (DPAs). The meeting was well-attended by NGOs, privacy officials and industry representatives and led to promising discussions […]
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Petition update
The EDRI and XS4ALL petition against data retention has attracted over 48.000 signatures, of which over 19.000 from the Netherlands (where the campaign was launched) and over 5.500 from Germany and Finland. Runners-up in the daily country count are Bulgaria and Sweden (over 2.000 each), followed by Austria (over 1.500). Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, Slovenia, […]
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Petition update
The EDRI and XS4ALL petition against data retention has attracted almost 42.000 signatures, of which over 16.000 from the Netherlands (where the campaign was launched) and over 5.000 from Germany and Finland. Runners-up in the daily country count are Sweden and Bulgaria (almost 2.000 each), followed by Austria (almost 1.500) and Italy (well over 1.000). […]
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Montreux Data Protection Commissioners Conference 2005
European Digital Rights is kindly inviting all interested people to attend a special public pre-event to the annual DPA conference in Montreux, Switzerland on 13 September 2005. EDRI, together with other NGO’s defending digital civil rights, is organising two panels, on biometrics and on data retention. Strategies for International Privacy Protection =Issues, Actors, and Future […]
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UK Presidency attacks European Convention of Human Rights
In order to convince the European Parliament of the need for mandatory data retention, the UK presidency of the EU has challenged the validity of the European Convention of Human Rights. The UK Home Office secretary, Mr Clarke, basically told the European Parliament on 7 September that the 50 year old convention was outdated. Talking […]
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UK police workshop and paper on data retention
On Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 September the UK presidency tried its best to convince member of the European Parliament to give up their resistance against mandatory data retention. On Monday the parliamentary committee on civil liberties was addressed by the UK chairman of the criminal matters working group, Simon Watkin and by the London […]
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New French anti-terrorism surveillance plans
The French newspaper Le Monde has a number of articles on new plans from the French government for anti-terrorism legislation. On 6 September the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin presented a rough impression of 16 new measures to the members of parliament. The package will be presented to the Council of Ministers in October 2005. […]
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Preview Montreux conference Data Protection Authorities
European Digital Rights, together with a number of other international digital rights organisations, is organising two panels on data retention and on biometrics, as a pre-event to the annual DPA conference in Montreux, Switzerland on 13 September 2005. It is widely expected the Chair of the Article 29 Working Party, Peter Schaar, will close the […]
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