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Deutsch: ETSI-Standard für rechtmäßige Überwachung wirft Datenschutzfragen ...

The draft UK Communication Bill raises new privacy concerns after it has been revealed that the UK has also been driving the development of a European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standard framework that allows interception of the content of communication as well.

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Deutsch: Deutsche Geheimdienste überwachen Internetkommunikation

Based on two reports of the German Parliamentary Control Panel (PKG), in 2009 and 2010, the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection, the Federal Intelligence Service and the Military Counterintelligence Service have monitored an impressive number of e-mails and other forms of Internet communications.

Although the German Basic Law protects the privacy of postal and telecommunications, Article 10 of the law leaves an open door for surveillance, with the exception in cases of "imminent danger to the free democratic ba

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Deutsch: Phorm zurück auf dem europäischen Parkett

After its implementation in UK failed, Phorm wants a fresh start by placing its foot in the European market through a partnership deal with Romtelecom in Romania.

With no public debate before the launch at the end of September, Romtelecom has presented a new service called MyClicknet, which basically implements the Phorm behavioural advertising solution with an opt-in approach.

In practice, that means that almost all traffic (browsing and searches) on port 80 from Internet users that opt-in for such a system will be scanned in order to create a profi

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Deutsch: Deutsche Polizei soll Trojaner für Online-Durchsuchungen eingesetzt h...

According to EDRi-member Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the German government has been using a backdoor Trojan, a spyware that can retrieve private data, and also offers a remote control for uploading and executing other arbitrary programs.

CCC has reverse engineered and analysed the respective programme and has concluded that the Trojan can receive uploads of arbitrary programs from the Internet and execute them remotely and that the activation of the computer's hardware, like the microp

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Deutsch: Europäische Kommission besorgt über illegale Abhöraktionen in Bulga...

Based on a request for access to public information, Dnevnik daily newspaper has been able to access and publish information showing that a third of the wiretaps in Bulgaria have no proper legal coverage, being performed without an authorisation from a judge.

This is possible due to a "flexible" formulation of the procedure for requesting the interception of a person's communications.

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Deutsch: Mazedonien: Neues Gesetz für elektronische Kommunikation verabschiede...

The amendments to the Law on electronic communications would allow the Ministry of Interior to play the "Big Brother" role, concluded the opposition parties during the debate on this bill that took place in the Assembly on 11 May 2010.

According to the allegations of the opposition party SDSM, not only the Ministry of Interior would eavesdrop on telephone conversations without any obstruction, but it would also be authorized to monitor the computers of all Macedonian citizens.

According to the opposition party New Democracy, these amendments are not prepared in accordance with the European stand

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Deutsch: Die Niederlande verspricht Transparenz bezüglich der Abhöraktionen

The Dutch Minister of Justice promised on 26 November 2009 at the request of the Dutch Parliament to provide more transparency regarding wiretapping. The Dutch government is placing relatively many taps on a per-capita basis, compared to other countries. During a debate in the Parliament, members of Parliament voiced their concerns on the lack of transparency and insisted on more accountability.

In reaction, the Minister of Justice indicated firstly that the government would provide information on how many internet-taps are placed.

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Deutsch: Britische ISPs geben Phorm auf

On 6 July 2009, just before the beginning of the investigation on Internet privacy by UK MPs and peers of the All Party Parliamentary Communications Group, the largest UK ISP British Telecom (BT) has announced it would not roll out Phorm's web monitoring and profiling system, Webwise, in its network.

Right after BT made this announcement, claiming that for the next three years it needed to focus on network upgrades, other two large ISPs in UK,Virgin Media and TalkTalk, declared they would not launch the system in the near future either.