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Deutsch: Freiheit statt Angst: Hochsaison für (digitale) Bürgerrechte in Euro...

European policy making has long been blind to the digital environment, ignoring the potentials of the Internet and the positive impact of the free flow of information in society.

Over the last 10 years, an increasing number of surveillance measures have restricted civil liberties and have promoted fear rather than freedom.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Missbrauch der irischen Polizeidatenbanken

In 2003, the then Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, stated that he "knew that journalists were bribing gardaí (police)". This was said in the context of proposed legislation which would create a crime of leaking information.

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Deutsch: EP-Ausschuss für die Einführung von Nacktscannern in Europa

To the dismay of liberal groups, the European Parliament's Transport Committee decided on 31 August 2011 to back up the European Commission in the introduction of body scanners in EU airports.

Although imposing certain conditions such as excluding x-ray technology, the EP committee did not oppose the EC rules which do not specifically rule out the use of naked imagery. "The rules do exclude the use of x-ray technology, which is something we wanted.

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Deutsch: Verhaltensorientierte Online-Werbung: EU-Datenschützer weiterhin unzu...

In a letter sent to IAB Europe and European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA), Article 29 Working Party (WP) made some observations regarding the self-regulatory framework for online behavioural advertising.

The WP considers that the companies having signed the self-regulatory code may still be in breach of the EU laws in the use of cookies to track users' online behaviour for targeted advertising.

The self-regulatory code, established in April 2011 by IAB Europe and EASA, imposes the

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Deutsch: DigiNotar-Panne führt zu schwerwiegenden Sicherheitsbedenken

A breach in the computer systems of Dutch certificate company Diginotar led to grave concerns regarding the security of internet users in Iran and Dutch government communications. On 2 September 2011, the Dutch government denounced their trust in certificates issued by DigiNotar after the discovery of fraudulent certificates. It advised Dutch citizens not to log in on websites using these certificates, until the certificates are replaced.

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Deutsch: Mitmachen!

Survey that gathers the views of internet users from all EU countries on the use of personal information, privacy, and giving consent online. This survey is part of the CONSENT project - a collaborative project co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme.
http://bit.ly/Survey-CONSENT

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Deutsch: Deutscher Datenschützer fordert Entfernung des Facebook-"Like&qu...

Thilo Weichert, the German data protection commissioner from the Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD) - the Data Protection Authority (DPA) from the state of Schleswig-Holstein, on 19 August 2011 called on website owners in his north German state to remove Facebook "like" buttons by the end of September 2011 or possibly face a fine.

Weichert stated that, according to a thorough legal and technical analysis by ULD, when people use the "like" button on Facebook pages, traffic and conte

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Deutsch: Deutsche Arbeitnehmerdatenbank ELENA beißt ins Gras

The German government announced, in a press release on 18 July 2011, that it was going to abandon its central database and registration procedure for salaries, ELENA ("Elektronischer Entgeltnachweis"/ "electronic salary record"), as soon as possible.

With this decision, German civil rights group and EDRi-member FoeBuD can celebrate the successful outcome of a complaint they had handed in at Germany's Federal Constitutional Court even before the court came to consider its ruling.