Tag: EU Commission

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Press Releases

Access Now to EU Commission: Strike down the toothless Privacy Shield

In spite of some timid efforts by the US to finally honor some of its commitments under the Privacy Shield, US laws and practices still undermine the human rights of data subjects in the European Union. …

18 September 2019

Blog

The EU Commission should strike down the EU-US Privacy Shield. Here’s why.

By terminating the EU-US Privacy Shield, the EU Commission can help protect people’s rights and live up to its status as a global leader on the protection of personal data.…

18 September 2019

Brief

Access Now comments to the third annual Privacy Shield review

18 September 2019

Press Releases

Freedom of Expression

Civil society calls for evidence-based solutions to disinformation

Human and digital rights organisations published a joint report evaluating the European Commission’s online disinformation and propaganda initiatives.…

19 October 2018

Press Releases

Freedom of Expression

EU Terrorism Regulation: an EU election tactic

The European Commission has yet again hurriedly published a new Regulation that addresses technology companies deleting or disabling access to terrorist content online.…

12 September 2018

Consultation/Comment

Access Now’s responses to the second annual Privacy Shield review

31 August 2018

Blog

Europe is consulting stakeholders on cross-border access to e-evidence. Here’s what we told them.

The European Commission will soon introduce legislation on cross-border access to electronic evidence. That legislation must protect human rights.…

24 January 2018

Press Releases

Business and Human Rights

Italy to Revoke Export License for Cyber Surveillance Company

Brussels, BE — Today, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development will decide whether to revoke the currently suspended export licence to Area, a company under review for supply of surveillance technologies to Syrian intelligence. Access Now and a coalition of…

27 June 2017

Blog

Chronicle of an EU e-Privacy Foretold: What the different drafts for reform tell us

We hope the troubling tale told by draft proposals for e-Privacy reform does not portend doom for the right to privacy.…

24 January 2017

Blog

EU’s ‘Smart Borders 2.0’ increases risks of surveillance and privacy abuses

The revised proposal is no better than the first, with dangerous new provisions to collect biometric data to “prevent” crimes.…

20 December 2016

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