Data Retention: Red Line Against Storage of Citizens’ IP Addresses
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 …
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Data retention and undermining encryption: expert group to present proposals for expanding surveillance by mid-2024
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 …
Leak on Data Retention: What are the EU Governments planning for 2023?
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 …
Data retention: France illegally extends blanket mass surveillance of the entire population
In a decree made public today, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has extended the temporary retention of communications data of all citizens in France for another year. …
Data retention ruling: Let’s free Europe from mass surveillance and general suspicion!
In a ruling delivered today, the EU Court of Justice dismissed German legislation on general and indiscriminate retention of call data records and mobile phone location data …
IP data retention is no option: IPv6 addresses can be unique and persistent tracking identifiers – a new study finds
A study on IP addresses [1] by scientists from TU Delft in the Netherlands and the Max-Planck-Institut at Saarland University in Germany proves IP data retention threatens citizens’ privacy: IP addresses …
EU Rule of Law Report: Data Retention is a blind spot
Today, the European Union Commission will publish the annual Rule of Law Report. According to MEP and civil rights activist Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party, Greens/EFA Group in …
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 data …
“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 territory …
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 “ciblé”. …