Tag: EU Commission

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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

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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

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Privacy

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

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Privacy

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