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Deutsch: Der Europäische Datenschutzbeauftragte zur geplanten EU-Datenschutzre...

On 7 March 2012, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued his Opinion on the proposed reform package adopted by the Commission on 25 January that includes a Regulation with general rules on data protection and a Directive with specific data protection rules for the law enforcement sector.

While welcoming the General Data Protection Regulation reform package, considering it a very big step ahead for the data protection right in Europe, the EPDS expresses his concern that the proposed regulat

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Deutsch: Recht auf Vergessen: Spanische Datenschutzbehörde wendet sich an EuGH

While Spain's National Court, Audiencia Nacional de Espana (AN) has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to clarify jurisdiction issues in cases involving individual privacy complaints against Google and search engines in general, Spain's Data Protection Agency DPA (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos - AEPD) reasserted its position that Spaniards and Europeans in general should be able to file such complaints in courts in their own countries.

AN stated it was unclear who should make a decision about personal privac

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Introduction

Following the initial discussions in the European Parliament and the overwhelmingly negative workshop that was held on 1 March, ACTA is close to dead in Europe. What are the strategies for bringing it back to life and how will this impact on other similar initiatives? How can activists ensure that our great success so far can be maintained?

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Deutsch: WP 29: Google verstößt gegen den Datenschutz

A few days in advance of Google's revision of its privacy policies, European data protection authorities (DPAs) find that Google's new privacy policy would infringe European data protection rules. The lead DPA, the French CNIL, points out that the policy is too vague and raised concerns about the combination of data collected via different services. It requested Google to suspend the roll-out of the new policy until CNIL has completed its analysis.

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Deutsch: Überwachungspläne des britischen Innenministeriums

The UK Government plans to store details on all phone calls or online communications for a year in databases that will be available to security services, under the pretext of anti-terrorism fight.

Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be obliged to store the numbers or email addresses of people communicating not only by phone or email but also through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.

The Home Office seems to have already begun negotiations with Internet companies over the plan which cou

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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: Häufig gestellte Fragen zur Vorlage des ACTA-Abkommens beim Europäis...

Following the recent decision of the European Commission to refer the draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the European Court of Justice, Access and EDRi have prepared this short FAQ to explain this process.

SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs), the Belgian collecting society for music royalties, is in the spotlight again. A few months after the Scarlet/SABAM case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has released a new decision on the legality of filtering systems on the Internet, this time with regard to filtering of content stored on web services.

Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that a social network “cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system, covering all its users, in order to prevent the unlawful use of musical and audio-visual work”.