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Deutsch: Europäischer Datenschutz & Menschenrechte 2010
On Data Protection Day, 28 January 2011, Privacy International, the Center for Media and Communication Studies of the Central European University and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, released the European Privacy & Human Rights 2010 (EPHR) report. The survey reviews the landscape of national privacy and data protection laws and regulations, in addition to other laws, cases and recent developments, such as European NGOs' advocacy activities, that have had an impact on privacy in Europe in the last two years. The research field covers jurisdictions of all 27 EU Member States, two EFTA countries (Norway and Switzerland), three EU accession candidate states (Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey), and the EU itself as a jurisdiction.
Apart from the country-by-country analysis in 33 reports, the survey also provides a comparative legal and policy analysis of major privacy topics and a section on key developments country by country. A privacy ranking offers a bird's-eye view of all major developments, and summarizes them by grading the state of privacy in each state, from the ones which "consistently uphold human rights standards" (best grade) to the ones where "endemic surveillance" prevails (lowest grade), going through the states that have "adequate safeguards against abuse" (satisfactory mark), present a "systemic failure to uphold safeguards" (insufficient mark), or show signs of "extensive surveillance" (very poor grade). Key findings then list countries on a grading scale, such as the "good" ones ("European democracies (...) in good health", with a "majority of countries having constitutional protections") or the ones where "heroic" policy advocacy, campaigns or protests that took place that slowed down or prevented privacy intrusions or government surveillance.
A special section in the report outlines European NGOs' advocacy work in each country. Several of EDRi's NGO members have directly contributed to the success of those advocacy efforts in their respective countries. Each country report is available in English and translated into the country's official language(s). Another section provides an extensive list of privacy resources, country by country.
The EPHR report builds upon the legacy of EPIC & Privacy International's Privacy & Human Rights survey, in which more than 300 privacy experts from all over the world have already participated for over a decade, making this survey one of the world's most comprehensive report on privacy and data protection.
The "EPHR 2010" report is part of a broader project that comprises, apart from the publication of the report itself, two other action areas that will be fully developed over the next six months: the dissemination of the report on various online platforms, in particular mobile phones, so that people around Europe can learn, in their own national language, about privacy developments in their country; but also the development of awareness-raising campaigns, including three "games" that teach people how to decode web access logs and IP addresses and tie them to a unique individual, or figure out which countries' servers their e-mails may have gone through, and may possibly have been intercepted.
In addition to the research and production team, made up of people from the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University and Privacy International, more than 90 privacy and data protection experts (privacy advocates, academics, lawyers and policy experts) from 32 countries all over Europe, contributed with updates from their respective countires. The European Commission funded the EPHR project through its "Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Program (2007-2013)".
The European Privacy & Human Rights 2010 report
https://www.privacyinternational.org/ephr/
The introductory video
https://www.privacyinternational.org/data/
The "EPHR" project
http://www.cmcs.ceu.hu/research/privacy-and-freedoms
Short presentation of the survey (31.01.2011)
http://blog.cedriclaurant.org/2011/01/31/european_privacy_and_human_ri...
(Contribution by Cedric Laurant - observer at EDRi)