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Deutsch: Frankreich: CNILs Stellungnahme zum LOPPSI-Gesetzesentwurf

The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has now made public its opinion of 16 April 2009 on seven articles belonging to LOPPSI, the French draft law on orientation and programming for the performance of the domestic security that may give the police the possibility to spy on electronic communications and which introduces Internet filtering by administrative decision.

The draft law was presented on 27 May by Minister of Justice Michèle Alliot-Marie to the French Council of Ministers but it's only now that CNIL can make its opinion public due to new legal provisions introduced in May. The Minister did not choose

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Deutsch: EDPS: neue Datenschutzthemen im Zusammenhang mit intelligenten Transpo...

Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), issued on 22 July his opinion on the European Commission's proposed plan, adopted in December 2008, to accelerate and coordinate the deployment of intelligent transport systems (ITS) in road transportation in Europe, and their connection with other modes of transport .

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Deutsch: EU will noch mehr Bankdaten an die US-Behörden weitergeben

The dispute between EU and the US on access to the bank transfer details has come again to the public attention after the Belgium company SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) that intermediates the international banking transactions has decided to open a new server in Switzerland that will focus on European customers.

SWIFT has now two servers in the Netherlands and in the state of Virginia, with identical data. After 11 September 2001, US intelligence services had gained access to the system, including to European inner-transactions.

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Deutsch: Der Datenschutzbeauftragte äußert sich zum Stockholmprogramm

After the release of the Stockholm Programme considered by civil rights groups as enhancing the "dangerously authoritarian" European surveillance and security system, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published on 13 July 2009 his opinion on the new system.

The EDPS demands for a stronger focus on fundamental rights in the Stockholm programme which is due to be adopted by the European Council in December 2009.

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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.

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Deutsch: Schwedisches Gericht: IP-Adressen sind persönliche Daten
Macedonian: Шведска: ИП адресите се лични податоци

The Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled on 18 June that the IP addresses are personal data in a case regarding APB (the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau, Antipiratbyrån), a lobby group representing copyright owners.

However, from the comments following the judgement, it became clear that this ruling will not stop the implementation of the Swedish IPRED Directive or the way the copyright holder representatives record and keep IP addresses

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Deutsch: Frankreich: Kein neues EDVIGE!

A text of a draft law on Police Files initiated by the two French deputies Delphine Batho and Jacques-Alain Bénisti has been approved by the Laws Commission of the National Assembly.

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Deutsch: Der Arbeitskreis Artikel 29 äußert sich zu Social Networking

Article 29 Working Party issued on 22 June 2009 an opinion on how European privacy laws affect social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace.

The opinion states the social networking sites should be responsible for the compliance to European privacy laws and, on the other hand, that users of such sites should upload pictures or information about other individuals only with the consent of the respective individuals.

Presently, social networking users share pictures and tag friends' images without requiring a prior consent and generally, communicate publicly, placing their own and others' private informati