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Germany: Police statistics prove data retention superfluous
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutschland: Kriminalstatistik entlarvt Vorratsdatenspeicherung als überflüssig | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.12_Deutschland_Kriminalstatistik_entlarvt_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_als_ueberfluessig?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110623] The national crime statistics recently published by Germany’s Federal Crime Agency reveal that after the policy of blanket telecommunications data retention was discontinued in Germany due to a Constitutional Court ruling on 3 March 2010, registered crime continued to decline […]
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European Commission consults with civil society on data retention
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Europäische Kommission berät sich mit Zivilgesellschaft | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.12_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_Kommission_beraet_mit_Zivilgesellschaft?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110623] Last week, the European Commission held the first of its series of consultation meetings with different groups of stakeholders on the revision of the infamous Data Retention Directive. The first meeting was with the “civil society”, including representatives of […]
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EDPS: Data Retention Directive fails to meet data protection requirements
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDSB: Richtlinie zur Vorratdatenspeicherung wird Datenschutzanforderungen nicht gerecht | http://bit.ly/juy3xn] Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted, on 31 May 2011, an opinion on the European Commission’s Evaluation Report on the Data Retention Directive submitted on 18 April 2011 to the Council and the European Parliament. […]
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Data retention in EU Council Meeting
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Ministerrat diskutiert Vorratsdaten | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_EU-Ministerrat_diskutiert_Vorratsdatenspeicherung] The EU Council Working Group of Justice and Home Affairs had a first discussion on 12 May 2011 on the European Commission implementation report on the data retention directive. The Commission agreed that the implementation has been uneven, both in terms of retention […]
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Data Retention has arrived in Austria
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung erreicht Österreich | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_erreicht_Oesterreich] While the Czech Constitutional Court has recently declared the national data retention legislation unconstitutional, the Legal Services of the German Bundestag has found it impossible to ensure the legality of the Data Retention Directive and the European Commission itself still struggles to prove […]
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Top 10 misleading statements of the European Commission on data retention
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdaten: Zehn irreführende Behauptungen der Europäischen Kommission | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_Vorratsdaten_Die_zehn%20irrefuehrendsten_Behauptungen_der_EU-Kommission] The European Commission adopted its evaluation report on the Data Retention Directive this week. In anticipation of the Commission to hide the numerous failures of the Directive by omission and dissemblance, EDRi produced a “shadow report” providing a more […]
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Czech Constitutional Court rejects data retention legislation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Tschechisches Verfassungsgericht hebt Vorratsdatenspeicherung auf | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.7_Tschechien_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_verfassungswidrig] The Czech Constitutional Court declared national data retention legislation unconstitutional on 31 March 2011. This is part of the Electronic Communications Act and its implementing legislation according to which records of e-mails, phone calls, and SMS as well as websites accesses […]
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ENDitorial: Data retention: Is the EC trying to dig itself out of a hole?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Vorratsdaten – Versucht sich die Kommission selbst aus dem Sumpf zu ziehen? | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.7_Vorratsdaten_Versucht_sich_die_Kommission_selbst_aus_dem_Sumpf_zu_ziehen] The Data Retention Directive was adopted in 2006 in very controversial circumstances. Article 15 of the Directive placed a clear obligation on the European Commission (EC), to submit “no later than 15 September […]
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Czech Constitutional Court rejects data retention law
The Czech Constitutional Court decided today, 31 March 2011, that the national implementation of the data retention directive is unconstitutional, in a complaint drafted by EDRi-member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe). See below the full press release from IuRe and Translation in English of the decision Constitutional Court: Spying on Communication Declared Unconstitutional An ongoing campaign by […]
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Data retention law provisions declared unlawful in Cyprus
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Zypern für rechtswidrig erklärt | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_Zypriotische_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_rechtswidrig] The Cyprus Supreme Court decided on 1 February 2011 that some of the provisions of Law 183 (I) / 2007 on disclosure of telecommunications data are unlawful, as they breach the Cyprus Constitution and its jurisprudence, as revealed by the […]
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German study finds the data retention ineffective
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Studie enthüllt: Vorratsdatenspeicherung ineffektiv | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_AK_Vorrat_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_ineffektiv] A study of police statistics published by the German Federal Crime Agency on 26 January 2011, finds telecommunications data retention ineffective for the prosecution of serious crime. An analysis of Federal Crime Agency statistics published on 27 January 2011 by German […]
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Romanian NGOs demand stopping data retention in Europe
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänische NGOs fordern einen Stopp der Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Europa | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2553] In an open letter sent to the European institutions, several Romanian NGOs, including EDRi-member APTI Romania, demanded stopping data retention in Europe, following the decisions of the Constitutional Courts in Romania and Germany. The letter asks the […]
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