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MEPs Voting Behaviour: ‘Winning Sides and Grand Coalitions’?
How do MEPs Vote after Lisbon? VoteWatch.eu tries to shed light on this question in their third six-monthly report on the voting behaviour of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and their political groups. Dr Sara Hagemann and Simon Hix, re...
Data Retention: A keeper or not?
Coincidence or not, in the evaluation process of the Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) the Directorate-General Home Affairs of the European Commission invited all stakeholders to participate on Friday the 3th of December at the 3th Data Retention...
Net Neutrality Timeline
As Net Neutrality seems to be all over the place at the moment, we considered it couldn’t hurt to put together a summary timeline of the Net neutrality debate. It is obviously not exhaustive and biased in the sense that it tries to highlight so...
Net Neutrality: The Oxford Street Dilemma
The Hon Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, remarked in his recent speech at the Financial Times World Telecoms Conference 2010 (16 & 17th November) that: ‘Unlike in the UK, in some parts of the US...
My Right to be Forgotten = Your Obligation to Forget?
The balance between different rights (e.g. privacy Vs freedom of expression) is a well-known tension. But the creation of new rights that are so-called derivatives from privacy and seem to ignore both that tension and the fact that if you set up a ri...
EU Net Neutrality Summit: a tale of gifts, monkeys, bullies…all solved by feet?
The European Commission and European Parliament organised a one-day Summit on the ‘Open Internet and Net neutrality in Europe’ on the 11th of November following the recent public consultation on this topic. A summit for which Europe ̵...
Personal, Private, Public and …‘Priblic’?
As explained in my first post on this issue, Privacy is a difficult concept to define in a universal manner, and conceptualising it on a case-by-case basis is simply unworkable in an online environment, both in terms of compliance and enforcement. Te...
Privacy is not dead…but what is it?
So the European Commission has finally officially released its Communication on a Comprehensive Approach to Data Protection in the European Union on 4 November, the accompanying press release emphasising that it was out to strengthen data protection...
