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European Central Bank found accountable in the SWIFT case
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 1 February, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) gave his opinion on the role of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the SWIFT case, considering the bank as accountable along with SWIFT for failing compliance with the European privacy laws in the secret US […]
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Bulgaria fails to protect citizen's personal data
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A recent report made public by the Bulgarian National Audit Office about the activity of the Commission for Personal Data Protection (CPDP) in Bulgaria in the period 1 January 2003 – 31 December 2005 shows that CPDP has failed in achieving its main purpose – to protect […]
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Romanian Prosecutors want easy access to communication data
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new normative act regarding the competence of the Prosecutors dealing with terrorism and organized crime adopted by the Romanian Government in the last days of 2006 created rumours among the press and civil society that accused the Ministry of Justice of breaching the citizens privacy. The […]
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EU knew about the US's system profiling all visitors
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) New controversial issues appear in the case of Passanger Name Record (PNR) deal with US that show the level of privacy from the US authorities is very far from the European standards. As Statewatch revealed, the EU Council Presidency admitted that the Council of the European Union […]
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Millions of credit cards scrutinized in Germany
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During an operation carried out by the German police, prosecuting authorities and State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt millions of credit card transactions were scrutinized in September 2006. A spokesman from LKA stated that indeed a large amount of credit cards […]
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Biometric scanning is being tested in Heathrow Airport
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A biometric scanning system called miSense started to be used as a trial on December 2006 at Heathrow Airport, as part of the International Air Transport Association’s Simplifying Passenger Travel Programme. The system allows passengers to scan their passport and right index finger, creating an electronic key […]
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UK government reacts to campaign opt out of central medical database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) English health minister Lord Warner has reacted to TheBigOptOut.org, a campaign that mobilises citizens to opt out from a proposed national medical database. He is offering patients an opt-out from one part of the new system – a synopsis for emergency care, which contains things like your […]
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Proposal of computers online searching in Germany
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Earlier this year, Ingo Wolf, the Minister of the Interior of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Federal Minister, proposed certain plans that would give the police and the Interior Federal Office of Criminal Investigation permission to access online computers of […]
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EDPS warns against EU endangering data protection principles
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Peter Hustinx, has issued a second opinion, following the one issued on 19 December 2005 on the Proposal of the Commission for a Council Framework Decision on the protection of personal data processed in the framework of police and judicial co-operation […]
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France – Using Social Security number to identify medical records
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new amendment proposed by the French Minister of Health Xavier Betrand is considering using the National Identification Record (NIR) as the identifier of a patient in the health sector. NIR is a unique number of every person in France, included in the national registry of natural […]
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Article 29 Working Party expressed its opinion in the SWIFT case
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 21-22 November 2006, an opinion was adopted by the Privacy Commissioners represented by Article 29 Working Group ruling against the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) for having transferred transaction details to the US. The Privacy Commissioners wanted to point out again that fighting terrorism […]
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Campaign launched in UK to opt out of central medical database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A campaign has been launched in the UK to get people to opt out of a government scheme to upload medical records from family doctors’ surgeries into a central health database. TheBigOptOut.org was launched in London on 29 November 2006 with support from NGOs such as Foundation […]
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