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Italiensk EU-parlamentariker vill registrera allt på internet
Europaportalen skriver: EU-parlamentarikern Tiziano Motti vill att allt du gör på nätet loggas och sparas – för barnens skull. En slags svart låda ska installeras i alla världens datorer, smartphones och läsplattor. Tanken är också att sys...
Online tracking infringing e-privacy? Duh!
Following my earlier post on digital piracy, let's stay within the digital environment and talk some more about digital privacy. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) revealed today in a press release that the Data Retention Directive does n...
Meeting with German Parliamentarians in Berlin
Diana recently visited the German Parliament (Deutsche Bundestag) to speak to members of the Committee on Legal Affairs. She spoke, partly in German, about the proposed Contract Law and also touched on Data Retention and Internet blocking. La...
New European Commission proposal on the use of PNR data in the fight against terrorism
The proposal aims to harmonise Member States’ provisions on obligations for air carriers, operating flights between a third country and the territory of at least one Member State, to transmit PNR data to the competent authorities for the purpose of...
Does Telecom Data Fight Crime?
AK Vorrat, a German NGO that defends civil liberties, released a report arguing that while the EU's data retention law might not be hurting, it certainly wasn’t helping. Crime in Germany went up after the law was implemented.
Piebalgs proposes 10% increase in funding to the Global Fund
Tomorrow, Andris Piebalgs, the European Commissioner for Development, will participate in the Third Voluntary Replenishment Pledging Conference of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in New York. Two weeks after the UN High-level...
Vågmästarställning när Alliansen har vunnit
Alliansen har vunnit regeringsmakten med klar och tydlig majoritet, enligt alla opinionsundersökningar. Risken är stor att Sverigedemokraterna kommer in i riksdagen. Resonemanget här är baserat på att valresultatet blir som opinionsundersökning...
Luc Devigne's role in ACTA negotiations
On Saturday, July 17, 2010, I said on twitter, "Apparently Luc Devigne is out as head #acta negotiator for EU." There were a number of sources for this inside the European Union and also among other trade bodies or governments following or participa...
371 times: Thank you!
Europaportalen.se has published the list of 371 MEPs who declare that all EU citizens are potential pedophiles (background here & here). Shouldn't we now all thank those MEPs who, like German liberal Alexander Graf Lambsdorff admitted at the ALDE he...
22 EU parliamentarians withdraw signatures from controversial declaration - update
Update (17 June): It seems like the declaration has been adopted. Here it is, on the list of adopted declarations. What a disgrace! According to Europaportalen.se, MEPs have started to withdraw their signatures from a controversial EP declaration.
Ek (C) och Engström (PP) kräver svar om datalagringen
Pressmeddelande 3 juni 2010 Lena Ek (C) och Christian Engström (PP) kräver svar från kommissionen om teledatalagringsdirektivet Med anledning av förslaget att utvidga teledatalagringsdirektivet till att innefatta sökningar på nätet kräver nu...
European Parliament needs to reject the SWIFT deal !!
See now FAQ on Swift also in French, German, Italian and Finnish In German http://www.edri.org/files/SWIFT-FAQ_2010-02-10-DE.pdf In Italian http://www.edri.org/files/SWIFT-FAQ_2010-02-10-IT.pdf In French http://www.edri.org/files/SWIFT-FAQ_2010-02-10...
Banking data: Why MEPs must say no to SWIFT agreement
I have written before why the SWIFT agreement is bad for Europe. This post is an update based on the final agreement and the new arguments that have been brought forward. In short: the situation has not changed and MEPs should reject the SWIFT agreem...
Scrap plans for voluntary data retention !
Press release by La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat), and Netzpolitik.org, 2009-01-28: EU proposal puts confidential communications data at risk Civil liberties groups La Quadrature d...
