The comic book "Under surveillance" is an information and awareness tool for young adults created in the European project "Sensitization and information of young European citizens on the protection of their personal data", where EDRi was one of the partners.

The project is coordinated by the French League of Human Rights (LDH), in partnership with the European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH), European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Czech association Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) and the Spanish association Comunicació per a la Cooperació (Pangea).

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Deutsch: Aktionsplan für die Umsetzung des Stockholm-Programms

The European Commission published on 20 April 2010 its plan of actions for the implementation of the Stockholm Programme, the framework for EU actions on citizenship, justice, security, asylum and immigration policies for the period 2010-2014, which includes 170 initiatives.

In order to implement this complex programme, the Commission has identified a series of key action with clear timetables that should be taken during the 2010-2014 period, which include 10 concrete actions in the justice, fundamental rights and citizenship area.

Two concrete actions are proposed by the plan for personal data protection. First

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Deutsch: EDPS drängt auf Überarbeitung der EU-Rahmenbedingungen für Datensch...

During his speech on 27 April 2010 at the European Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners' Conference in Prague, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx asked the European Commission to continue its efforts in updating the present legal framework for data protection.

Hustinx expressed the idea that in a society affected more and more by globalisation and technological development, there must be a legal context to avoid the increasing loss of relevance and effectiveness of data protection and therefore the European Commission should be ever more proactive in updating the re

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Deutsch: Deutschland und Großbritannien stellen Datensammlung durch Google Str...

As Google's Street View service continue to be a controversial topic especially in Europe, Google has tried to clarify some issues about the data collected by means of its cars and the way it is used.

In February 2010, German officials threatened to take action against Google and, more recently, German data protection commissioner Peter Schaar was quoted to have stated he was "horrified" by the amount and type of data gathered by Google and demanded that the Wi-Fi database be deleted.

Germany's reaction drew the attention of the Information Commissioner Office (ICO), the UK's priv

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Italienisches Urteil hinsichtlich Googles Führungskräfte...

Finally, the Court of Milan made public the opinion that backed the indictment of a couple of Google's executives charged of Italian Data Protection Act infringement for not removing a violent video from the company's video sharing platform, video.google.com.

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Deutsch: Transfer von EU-Bankdaten auf Agenda der EU-Institutionen

The airline problems in Europe that have affected also many MEPs, have postponed a series of voting sessions scheduled for this week in Strasbourg, including the votes on PNR and SWIFT resolutions.

The US Administration declared that it hoped to continue "realistic" negotiations with the EU for a new bank data transfer deal with the EU, allowing American investigators to track terrorism funding.

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Deutsch: Neue Medien, Suchmaschinen und Netzneutralität auf der Tagesordnung d...

The Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of experts on new media (MC-NM) held its second meeting on 25-26 March 2010 in Strasbourg.

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Deutsch: Personenbezogene Daten: Ein Comicheft für junge Europäer

Information and communication technologies (telephone, Internet, emails, blogs and social networks) make daily life and relationships with our relatives, friends or even strangers easier. Young people and young adults make a particularly intense use of them. However, unless we are careful, they can lead us to hand over excessive amounts of our personal data, facilitating surveillance of our private lives. Protection of personal data is crucial for the respect for privacy.