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Deutsch: Übergriffsverfahren gegen GB wegen Mängel beim Datenschutz

On 14 April 2009, Viviane Reding, the European Union's Commissioner for Information Society and Media, reasserted the intention of the European Commission to take action if EU Member States failed to ensure the right of the citizens to control how their personal information is used by new technologies such as behavioural advertising (e.g. Phorm, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips or online social networking).

Viviane Reding warned that RFID chips integrated in products to send radio signals, should be used "by the consumer and not on the consumer.

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Deutsch: http://www.unwatched.org/node/1361horm: Überprüfung auf Europäische...

On the event on 31 March 2009, the European Commissioner for consumers, Meglena Kuneva, warned on the transparency in the online environment: "We must establish the principles of transparency, clear language, opt-in or opt-out options that are meaningful and easy to use.

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Deutsch: Zweite PrivacyOS Konferenz

Meetings between researchers from universities with representatives from industry, data protection authorities, standardizers from W3C and ISO and NGOs to discuss privacy challenges and develop privacy infrastructures represent the idea behind the European Privacy Open Space.

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Deutsch: Behavioural Targeting am Europäischen Verbrauchergipfel

The European Commission Directorate - General for Health & Consumers organized the European Consumer Summit on "Consumer Trust in the Digital Market Place" held in Brussels on 1 and 2 April, 2009. The agenda featured policy workshops on 'Consumer challenges and opportunities in the digital world' and 'Consumer advocacy'. Within the first topic, the whole range of consumer concerns in the digital market place considered to be major obstacles to the full take-off of business to consumer e-commerce and possible solutions to create consumer trust were discussed.

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Deutsch: EP hat die Rechte der Nutzer im Telekompaket zu schützen

The new developments on the Telecom Package over the last two weeks, with the approval of a new text in the IMCO (Internal Market Committee) of the European Parliament (EP) and the initiation of the trialogue between EU Council, the European Commission and the Parliament in order to reach an agreement on the final text, shows the worst situation for Internet users.

Although much of the MEPs seem happy with the new text that allows "simplifying life for telecom users", they seem to forget that other articles are raising much bigger problems for Internet users, especially related to the 3 strikes proposal or to privac

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Deutsch: Gesetzgebung zur Datenweitergabe von der Britischen Regierung gestoppt

The campaign of Privacy International and of other civil liberties groups against data sharing legislation in UK resulted in the UK Government decision to abandon Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill.

The respective clause was giving a "designated authority" the power to sign an order allowing the sharing of information between any two agencies in the public and private sector.

The proposed legislation raised concerns related to the possible misuse of personal data and created a large opposition movement.