Category: Sonstiges
Digging into Google’s push to freeze ePrivacy | TechCrunch [external]
Greens/EFA study reveals alarming expansion of Biometric Mass Surveillance in Europe
Today, the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament published a study on Current Practices of Biometric Mass Surveillance in the European Union (e.g. facial surveillance or behavioural analysis in public …
Plenary vote: Europol’s illegal activities must not be made legal!
Today, the European Parliament will vote in first reading on conferring new powers to the EU police agency, Europol. Despite a reprimand from the European Data Protection Supervisor last year, …
World Encryption Day: Lawmakers warn against EU attack on secure encryption and confidential digital correspondence
In the run-up to tomorrow’s Global Encryption Day, Members of the European Parliament from almost all political groups have sent a cross-party letter to the European Commission. The draft …
Cybersecurity: EU to ban anonymous websites
The EU is currently drafting legislation to increase cyber security (revised NIS Directive, in short “NIS 2”). According to this directive, the registration of internet domain names will in future …
European Parliament wants to keep option for biometrics surveillance ban | Biometricupdate.com [external]
MEPs call for ban on mass surveillance technologies | Silicon Republic [external]
Moment historique : Le Parlement européen se prononce en faveur de l’interdiction de la surveillance biométrique de masse dans l’UE pour la première fois
Aujourd’hui, le Parlement européen a rejeté par 259 :403 :30 , une tentative[1] visant à supprimer l’appel à l’interdiction de la surveillance biométrique de masse qui figure dans le rapport de Petar Vitanov …
Historic moment: European Parliament speaks out for the first time in favour of banning biometric mass surveillance in the EU
Today, the European Parliament by 259:403:30 votes rejected the attempt to remove the call for a ban on biometric mass surveillance, such as by means of facial recognition in public …