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Deutsch: Tschechien: Neuer Anlauf zur Wiedereinführung der Vorratsdatenspeiche...

For over a year now, Czech operators have not generally retained data on electronic communication for the needs of police – data police considered crucial in the investigation of crime. Yet, every year, there has been an increase in the number of solved crimes. Guardians of privacy are therefore convinced there is no need to monitor private electronic communications.

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Deutsch: Rumänien: Parlament verabschiedet Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung....

On 22 May 2012, the lower chamber of the Romanian Parliament adopted the new draft law on data retention with 197 votes for the proposal and only 18 against it.

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Deutsch: Tausende Österreicher wehren sich gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung

Two parallel initiatives by the Austrian AK Vorrat (working group data retention) are impressively supported by the general public. On the one hand, the citizens initiative for the abolishment of the EU data retention directive and the evaluation of national anti-terror legislation has already been signed by more than 100 000 citizens.

Ruling

Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP), Perfect Telecommunication, to court to obtain a court order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) if, assuming such a measure was proportionate, a Member State could introduce legislation which would require telecommunications data to be made available for such purposes. More specifically, would such a national measure be in breach of the Data Retention Directive?

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Deutsch: Polen: Fast 2 Millionen Zugriffe auf elektronische Kommunikationsdaten

EDRi-member Panoptykon Foundation (Poland) published last week the latest data received from the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE). During 2011, the courts, public prosecutor's office, the police and other authorities used data concerning Polish citizens' electronic communication exactly 1 856 888 times.

It is almost half a million times more than in 2010 and 800 000 times more than in 2009.

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Deutsch: UK: Innenministerium plant neue Überwachungsmaßnahmen

The Communication Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) proposed by UK coalition, meant to extend the police’s access to individuals' email and social media traffic data, is facing strong criticism from the opposition and civil liberties campaigners.

CCDP is likely to be part of Queen's speech on 9 May and relies on ISPs to gather the information and allow government intelligence operatives to scrutinise it.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Mitgliedsstaaten stürzen Kommissarin Malmström in Sachen...

Soon after the current college of Commissioners took office in 2009, all 27 Members travelled to Luxemburg to take a solemn oath to respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights in all of their duties. One key element of the Charter is that any restriction on fundamental rights must be "necessary and genuinely" achieve objectives of general interest or the defence of rights and freedoms of others.

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Deutsch: Die Datenschutzwoche 2012: Datenschutz-Konferenz und BarCamp

The week from 22 to 26 January 2012 was rather busy for everyone involved in European data protection issues.

First of all, the European Commission has launched its proposals for revision of the data protection framework. In the same week, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published a survey on the performance of all 58 EU bodies in key areas and showed that EU institutions have different levels of data protection compliance.