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Privacy and data protection in the Netherlands in 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The year 2008 did not improve the course of privacy and data protection in the Netherlands. The public debate focused on data collection systems related to fundamental aspects of Dutch citizens’ lives, such as communications, health and movement. Unfortunately, there are no signs that concerns or incidental […]
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Data protection in Italy: Loudly more of the same
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) I am sorry to say that I am skeptical about “days” dedicated to this or that cause or problem. They are often ignored, sometimes briefly celebrated, rarely leave any relevant trace over time. There are so many that we shall soon have one a week – and […]
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Romania: Is really privacy a topic in the public debate?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy is a sporadic keyword in the Romanian mass-media. And even less used in public speech. Becoming an ideal motivation only when talking about some local stars’ private life and their juicy intricacies, the real debate on the most important issues lacks completely. The Human Rights Committees […]
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UK: Phorm threat
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) One particular commercial threat to internet privacy should be looked at very closely by our fellow European Digital Rights campaigners. That threat is Phorm: an invasive and probably illegal web advertising technology that could soon be coming to you. Phorm works by looking at the web traffic […]
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Austria: Some EU data protection policy developments in 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In Austria the international data protection day on 28 January will pass by widely unrecognised. This year, as already in 2008, the Data Protection Commission (DSK; the Austrian Data Protection Authority) and the Data Protection Council (DSR; a political advisory board) will together organise a meeting for […]
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France: Who have they forgotten to control today?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, has published on 20 January 2009 a report on a massive control operation it conducted on the STIC (“Système de traitement des infractions constatées” or “Recorded offences treatment system”), a huge police database. The report reveals that the STIC is […]
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ENDitorial: Everyone can eavesdrop in Macedonia
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Eavesdropping devices that are being sold through adverts are mostly used by pupils for cheating at their school exams, and by men who doubt their wives’ fidelity. “Hey, let’s meet, we should not discuss this over the phone.” This sentence has long been used among friends, colleagues […]
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ECHR decided against the UK DNA Database
(Article corrected on 18 December 2008 on DNA database figures and the Counter Terrorism Act 2008) (Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 4 December 2008, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave its judgement in the Marper case related to the controversial National DNA Database used by the UK Police for […]
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ECHR rules on identifying serious privacy infringers
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 2 December 2008, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave its judgement on the case K.U. v. Finland, considering that Article 8 of the Convention asks for national laws that will protect people from serious privacy infringements on the Internet, but at the same time […]
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Snooping law, "Lex Nokia", proceeding slowly but surely in Finland
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Earlier this year, in April, the Government of Finland presented a bill to the Parliament for an amendment to the Act on Data Protection of Electronic Communications. Raison d’être for the bill officially is that it would allow employers to investigate the log data of employees’ e-mails, […]
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Spanish collective society fined for making clandestine wedding video
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) has been fined for having placed a private detective in a restaurant in Seville, in 2005, to film a wedding in order to prove that the restaurant was using music for which it had paid no royalties. The […]
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French EDVIGE decree withdrawn
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) It seems the demonstrations that took place on 16 October against the EDVIGE decree have found an echo with the French authorities. The French Government has finally withdrawn the EDVIGE file after a very strong mobilisation of the citizens through the “No to EDVIGE” group that gathered […]
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