Court ruling on passenger data: protection against general suspicion and false accusation
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union, in its fundamental PNR judgment in the case “Ligue des droits humains v Conseil des ministres (Case …
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EU „chat control“ proposal: Germany takes the lead in defending confidentiality of communications
In a leaked response to the EU Commission dated 10 June, the German government insists that proposed EU „chat control“ legislation to automatically search all private …
Digital Service Act shows EU‘s unwillingness to take digital age into its own hands
After today’s approval by the EU Council, the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee is expected to give its final nod to the EU’s Digital Services Act …
Stop #DataRetention: Experts find systematic disregard of Court decisions
In a panel discussion now available online (quotes [1] and links to specific statements [2] below), six digital rights experts analyse current developments on the issue of mass …
“Targeted” Data Retention: our map explained
This online map demonstrates that according to publicly available data, the allegedly geographically “targeted” data retention proposed by a Belgian draft law will in truth cover the entire national …
Conservation “ciblée” des données : cartographier ce que le gouvernement belge veut cacher
Le Parlement belge s’apprête à voter en commission ce jeudi 09/06/2022 sur la nouvelle proposition de conservation des données, qui comprend un système de conservation des données prétendument géographiquement …
“Targeted” Data Retention: Online map shows what the Belgian government wants to hide [updated]
The Belgian Parliament is set to vote in committee this Thursday 09/06/2022 on the new data retention proposal which includes an allegedly geographically “targeted” data retention scheme. With an …
Amendments call for a decentralised and privacy-friendly European Digital Identity
Today, the shadow rapporteurs of the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) submitted their amendments to the planned “European Digital Identity”. While the negotiators of the Social Democrats and the Liberals, …
Biometric mass surveillance: Let’s not follow Russia’s example!
Yesterday was the deadline to table amendments to the LIBE/IMCO report on the AI Act. This is the proposal by the Parliament’s competent committees to change the Commission’s original proposal …
Data Retention: NGOs call on German Minsters to Stop Mass Surveillance
In an open letter to the German Conference of Interior Ministers 13 organisations call for an end to mass data retention of citizen‘s connection and location …