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 data …
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Comeback of data retention? Former EU judge dismisses Commission’s plans
On 8 April 2014 the European Court of Justice annulled the EU Data Retention Directive which required the bulk collection of any citizens call detail records and location. 8 years later …
Chat control: Home Affairs Committee approves regulation on indiscriminate searching of private communications
On 26 May, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) approved a regulation that will allow e-mail, messaging and chat providers to automatically search all personal …
ECHR ruling: Mass surveillance legislation violates human rights
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the U.K. and Sweden‘s legislation on mass surveillance programmes violate human rights. In two separate proceedings, the Court concluded that …
Europol and counterterrorism: Commission calls for biometric mass surveillance and attacks encryption
Today, the European Commission presented new proposals for the reform of Europol and a strategy to combat terrorism. Europol has just been reprimanded by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Now …