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More than 20 000 protest in Berlin against surveillance
The Freiheit statt Angst (Freedom Not Fear) mass anti-surveillance rally took place in Berlin, Germany on 7 September 2013. The event was organized by a broad civil coalition of over 80 NGO, associations and parties demanding an end to surveillance and a clear statement from the government on the surveillance scandal. While the organizers expected […]
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LIBE inquiry on surveillance
On 5 September 2013, the Civil Liberties (LIBE) committee from the European Parliament organised a first inquiry hearing, which included Jacques Follorou from Le Monde, Jacob Applebaum from the Tor and Wikileaks projects, Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian, Carlos Coelho, EPP MEP and former chairman of the Echelon committee and Gerhard Schmid, former socialist MEP and rapporteur […]
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Press release: EDRi and FREE urge European Parliament to bring an end to lawless surveillance
Civil society groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the Fundamental Rights European Experts Group (FREE) have demanded an end to lawless spying on individuals around the globe. At a meeting with the Chair of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee today, the two groups handed over a document (pdf) containing detailed analysis of the current […]
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Data privacy issues following PRISM affair
The PRISM scandal has brought forth a series of issues related to the protection of the European citizens’ data and reactions calling for measure to prevent spying on these data. As the EU is currently updating its data privacy legislation, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the German justice minister, believes the EU needs a new set of data […]
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Irish DPA: OK for Facebook and Apple to share personal data to NSA!?!
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irlands Datenschutzbehörde gibt ihren Segen zur Datenweitergabe durch Facebook und Apple an die NSA!?! | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_Irlands_Datenschutzbehoerde_gibt_ihren_Segen_zur_Datenweitergabe_durch_Facebook_und_Apple_an_die_NSA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731] The Irish Data Protection Authority (ODPC) has recently ruled that the Irish subsidiaries of Facebook and Apple may perfectly share their users’ data with NSA as this is legal under the EU […]
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Finally! Safe Harbour Agreement under question by EU commissioner
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Endlich! EU-Kommissarin stellt „Safe Harbor“-Abkommen in Frage | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_Endlich_EU-Kommissarin_hinterfragt_Safe-Harbor-Abkommen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731] On 19 July 2013, during the informal Justice Council in Vilnius, Lithuania, EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding stated for reporters that her services will be reviewing the so-called Safe Harbor Agreement. The agreement, concluded 13 years ago between the […]
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Over 100 global groups make a principled stand against surveillance
For some time now there has been a need to update understandings of existing human rights law to reflect modern surveillance technologies and techniques. Nothing could demonstrate the urgency of this situation more than the recent revelations confirming the mass surveillance of innocent individuals around the world. To move toward that goal, today we’re pleased […]
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ENDitorial: Belgian railways – a case study in bad internet security
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ ENDitorial: Belgische Bahn – ein Paradebeispiel für mangelnde Sicherheit im Internet | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.15_ENDitorial_Belgische_Bahn_ein%20Paradebeispiel_fuer_mangelnde_Sicherheit_im_Internet?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130731 ] Earlier this year, we reported on the major data leak that was suffered by Belgian railways. Following the release of the data – including names, email addresses and even, in some cases, phone […]
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The PRISM scandal gets bigger
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [PRISM-Skandal weitet sich immer mehr aus | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_PRISM-Skandal_weitet_sich_immer_mehr_aus?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] Privacy campaigners have filed claims against Prism and Tempora, the US and British spy programmes that allow intelligence agencies to gather, store and share data on millions of innocent people. Privacy International has submitted a claim to the Investigatory Powers […]
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Austria: Outsourcing data retention obligations to the US
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [VDS in Österreich: Auslagern der Speicherverpflichtung an die USA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_VDS_in_Oesterreich_Auslagern_der_Speicherverpflichtung_an_die_USA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] During the ECJ lawsuit against the data retention (DR) directive it became clear that DR obligations may have been outsourced to contractors, maybe even to US-based companies, thereby giving US authorities potentially unrestricted access to all such […]
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The Washington Statement – In support of data protection
Privacy advocates from North America and Europe met last week in Washington, DC to participate in the Computers, Freedom & Privacy (CFP) conference 2013 and to discuss transatlantic cooperation on privacy and data protection issues. The debates focused on the NSA leaks, the European data protection reform and the upcoming negotiations on the EU-US free […]
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Prism, Tempora… and ECtHR?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Prism, Tempora … und der EGMR? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.13_Prism_Tempora_und_der_EGMR?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130703] By revealing documents about Prism US surveillance programme, Snowden, the former American National Security Agency (NSA) employee, seems to have opened a Pandora box. Der Spiegel has brought out new revelations that EU offices in Brussels, New York and Washington […]
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