The German coalition parties have agreed to introduce targeted and ad hoc data preservation rather than indiscriminately retaining information on all internet connections. This political decision represents a fundamental rejection …
Europol has published its Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) (PDF). The report assesses the cybercrime landscape and describes how threads have changed over the last two years.
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The EU High-Level Group (HLG) on access to data for effective law enforcement, also known as the #EUGoingDark group, is consulting non-governmental organisations today. Newly published documents confirm criticism by Pirate Party …
On 1 July, Spain holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the fifth time. In his welcome address, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced: …
A German diplomatic correspondence that was leaked by netzpolitik.org on Friday and other documents reveal the insistence by EU member state governments in blanket mass surveillance in the form of …
The EU released a paper on the Commission’s plan for an expert group to replace end-to-end encryption and anonymity by law enforcement access (also known as the “Going Dark” program). …
CJEU case: Patrick Breyer MEP draws a red line against storage of citizens’ IP addresses
On 15 and 16 May the judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union …
At the request of MEP Dr Patrick Breyer , Europol has published documents showing that a newly established group of experts is to draw up proposals on the topics of …
At the end of November 2022, the »Working Party on Cooperation in Criminal Matters (COPEN)« of the Council of the European Union met for an informal video conference. They discussed …
