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The European Parliament finalised its official position on the „EU Covid-19 Certificate”, which aims at ensuring freedom of movement within the EU during…
The EU plans to allow to continue the free transfer of personal data from EU countries to the UK after having concluded that…
Digital Green Pass raises privacy concerns. The Commission’s plans this week to establish a Digital Green Pass in order to help lift coronavirus…
Today, the European Commission presented its draft regulation on digital vaccination and testing certificates to restore freedom of travel in the EU in…
Happy Data Protection Day! This international day was established in 2007 in order to raise awareness for how our personal data is used…
BERLIN (AP) — Digital rights campaigners on Monday criticized a proposal by European Union governments that calls for communications companies
The eight-page text, leaked to the Financial Times and Guardian newspapers, said recent attacks in France and Austria showed the “extent of the…
Leaked documents have sparked questions over whether or not the EU is moving towards banning end-to-end encryption. But is that what is actually…
On November 9, 2020, the Austrian National Service Broadcaster (ORF) published a secret draft of a planned EU Council resolution seeking to undermine…
The European Parliament voted yesterday on three seperate reports on the Digital Services Act. The reports were adopted by a large majority, showing…
Patrick Breyer, civil liberties activist and Member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party, explains today’s ECJ rulings on data retention: “Under…
Blanket, indiscriminate telecommunications data retention has no statistically significant impact on crime or crime clearance. This is the result of a study by…
The European Parliament‘s Internal Market (IMCO) Committee today adopted its report on the proposed Digital Services Act (DSA). The Civil Liberties (LIBE) Committee…
EU Legal Affairs Committee wants Digital Services Act to end surveillance capitalism and AI censorship The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee yesterday adopted,…
MEP Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) welcomes today’s ruling by the European Court of Justice against the transfer of personal data to the USA:…
Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms…
The European Commission has gone further, asking all such data to be centralized to speed up prevention across the bloc, three people involved…
Google Can Forget You, but Only in Europe CPO Magazine
In a case I have been closely following, France’s data-privacy watchdog, CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), investigated Google’s non-compliance with the…