Tag: EU

Holland and India now have some of the strongest rules in the world to protect Net Neutrality, the principles that keep the internet open and free. Will Europe follow their lead?

The European Commission has announced a new agreement to allow companies like Facebook to transfer users’ data between the E.U. and U.S. It’s not clear whether this “E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield” — formerly the “Safe Harbor” agreement — will protect privacy and withstand legal scrutiny or challenge.

The EU wants to create databases of information about everyone flying into, out of, or across Europe—no matter where you’re from or why you’re travelling.

The “Schrems” ruling in Europe invalidated the EU-US “Safe Harbour” agreement that allowed companies like Facebook to transfer data overseas. Here’s how the law needs change before a new agreement can be reached that would resist legal challenge.

The European Union has finalized its first pan-European cybersecurity rules. Here’s a look at the security and privacy implications of the Directive on the Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS).

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here. We take a close look at the provisions and what the implications are for privacy in the E.U.

Access Now provided testimony for the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) on Net Neutrality, working to keep the internet open and free all across Europe.

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.

On December 2nd 2015, Access Now policy analyst Estelle Massé delivered a speech at the European Parliament on mass surveillance in the EU.

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.