Tag: Data Retention
Press Releases
Advocate General opinion on EU Canada PNR agreement: it won’t fly
Brussels, Belgium – This morning, Paolo Mengozzi, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, indicated that, in its current form, the EU-Canada Passenger Name Records (PNR) agreement — an air passenger data sharing deal — may…
8 September 2016
Consultation/Comment
Access Now position paper on the review of the e-Privacy Directive
28 July 2016
Publications
DRIP: European Commission’s response to Access Now’ notification of infringement
Here is the European Commission’s letter acknowledging Access’ notification of infringement regarding the United Kingdom’s breach of E.U. law through its adoption of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers (DRIP) on 18 July 2014.…
18 December 2015
Press Releases
European Parliament approves new rules for data protection in the EU
The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee has approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a text that solidifies the EU’s leadership in developing user-centric data protection rules.…
17 December 2015
Blog
UK parliamentarian deals a punch to data retention, but EU saga continues
Last week, the UK Court of Appeal sent the David Davis data retention case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for clarification. How the CJEU responds could have implications for data retention across the EU.…
2 December 2015
Blog
Pyrawebs: the menacing return of mass surveillance in Paraguay [Espanol / English]
The Paraguayan Senate will vote this week on the data retention bill known as #Pyrawebs. Despite the fact that the bill was previously rejected by the House of Representatives in March after heavy criticism, its proponents are pushing ahead with this privacy-curtailing piece of legislation. | El Senado paraguayo tratará esta semana la iniciativa de retención de datos de tráfico de internet, conocida como #Pyrawebs. Tras el rechazo en la Cámara de Diputados a causa de un amplio descontento social, los senadores proyectistas insisten con un proyecto que viola la privacidad y daña la libre expresión.…
1 June 2015
Blog
Parliament votes to push forward its agenda on EU-PNR
On February 11th, the European Parliament (EP) has adopted a resolution in which it commits to work toward finalising, by the end of the year, a directive on EU Passenger Name Records (PNR). Despite serious privacy concerns raised by civil society organisations, discourses privileging the need to reinforce EU anti-terrorism measures seem to have prevailed over European citizens’ fundamental rights.…
13 February 2015
Press Releases
EU Legal Services Report: Data Retention Likely Illegal
Tomorrow morning, Legal Services in the EU will release this long-awaited study. Access has obtained a copy of the document, which concludes that the EU’s powers to legislate on data retention matters are now limited. …
7 January 2015
Blog
Global state of surveillance: Australia’s terror laws set to erode human rights
The sweeping new powers contained in Australia’s terror laws have the potential to violate privacy and expression rights of Australians and non-Australians and to “strike at the heart of press freedom.” The terror laws create a mutually reinforcing surveillance scheme, greatly restricting the spaces in which people are free to think and to act on and offline.…
29 October 2014
Blog
Blanket data retention: Law enforcement wants it, but they don’t need it
On April 8, 2014, Europe’s highest court, the ECJ, released a long-awaited decision on the controversial Data Retention Directive, confirming what we all knew: the blanket surveillance mandated by the Data Retention Directive is neither necessary nor proportionate.…
15 September 2014
Blog
EU Commission takes note of NGO letter highlighting DRIP’s violations of EU law
This month, the European Commission responded to a letter sent on behalf of 21 digital rights organisations – including Access, Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), EDRi, Initiative für Netzfreiheit, AKVorrat, and EFF – outlining several violations of E.U. law in the passage of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIP) in the United Kingdom.…
22 August 2014
