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Deutsch: Das Telekompaket in der zweiten Lesung – gefährliche Zusätze

Several alarming amendments to the Telecom Package second reading in the European Parliament are to be voted on 31 March 2009 by ITRE/IMCO committee. The amendments are meant to give additional control to the entertainment industry, telecoms and IT security companies over the Internet.

An agreement on several delicate issues of the telecom package is sought in a trialogue between the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission to agree on a resolution regarding politically sensitive and technically difficult aspects of the Telecoms Package. Although the European Parliament is suppose

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Deutsch: Yahoo in Belgien für versäumte Offenlegung persönlicher Daten abges...

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Macedonian: Јаху казнет во Белгија поради...

Yahoo was fined by a Belgian court on 2 March 2009 for refusing to hand over to the Belgium authorities personal data of people involved in a cyber-crime investigation.

The Belgium authorities had required Yahoo to disclose detailed account information for a number of e-mail addresses used by alleged cons under pseudonyms.

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Deutsch: EP will ein besseres Gleichgewicht zwischen Internetsicherheit und den...

On 5 March 2009, during a hearing of the Civil Liberties and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the current framework on security and privacy on the Internet, Members of the European Parliament (EP) and experts agreed on the necessity to create a better balance between Internet security and the protection of online personal data.

The participants, including the European Data Protection Supervisor, academics, representatives of the Commission and of the Czech Presidency, supported a report drafted by Stavros Lambridinis proposing recommen

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Deutsch: Nokia-Gesetz angenommen

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Macedonian: Усвоен Законот Lex Nokia

The snooping law, also called Lex Nokia, was approved in the Finnish Parliament two weeks ago.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Privatsphäre in der Tschechischen Republik – kein Grund...

For the third time the Council of Europe has proclaimed 28 January the European Data Protection Day. EDRi-member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) reminds that the safety of Czech citizens´ personal data is still seriously endangered. Some of the most pressing issues are listed below.

RFID based Opencard (or Praguer´s Universal Card) is now being promoted as an electronic travel card for public transportation. However, the contactless chip card formerly used for parking payment and as a library ID is not secure.

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Deutsch: Britische Regierung ignoriert bei Phorm die Europäische Kommission

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Macedonian: Британската влада го игнорира предупр...

On 12 February 2009, the European Commission warned it would take formal action against the UK Government for not providing the requested information on the past trials of the Phorm ad-serving technology.

The Commission has sent three letters until now requesting information on the secret trials by BT of Phorm, the latest having been sent at the end of January 200

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Deutsch: Europäische Kommission löst Expertengruppe für Datenschutz auf Macedonian: Европската комисија расформира група ...

The European Commission has decided to dismantle a group of experts that needed to review the European Data Protection Directive.

The group was formed after a tendering process and included: Peter Fleischer, global privacy counsel for Google, David Hoffman, director of security policy and global privacy officer for Intel; Henriette Tielemans a privacy lawyer from a US law firm, Christopher Kuner, a privacy lawyer with another US law firm;

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Deutsch: Norwegische Gruppen schließen sich dem Justizzentrum gegen das schwed...

The Norwegian organisation of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has filed a petition, known as a Third Party Intervention, in support of the case brought to the European Court of Human Rights challenging the Sweden's FRA law that authorizes the Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets radioanstalt - FRA) to wiretap all telephone and Internet traffic that crosses Sweden's borders.

The legislative package which was passed by the Parliament of Sweden on 18 June 2008 and took effect on 1 January 2009, was fiercely criticized and opposed in Sweden by the publi