In the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the European Commission to deliver on its “promise” of a new EU-wide data retention… Read more »
The European Parliament’s legal advisors have issued a report into the repercussions of last year’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, in which the CJEU struck down… Read more »
There’s been a predictable split in the reactions to Wednesday’s slaughter of the staff of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, along with others including police who were trying to protect them… Read more »
Two British members of Parliament have won the right to have the contentious Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) – an expansion of the U.K. authorities’ surveillance powers – reviewed… Read more »
Bahnhof was the last Swedish ISP to resist the enforcement of a data retention law that is arguably illegal under EU law. Now it’s technically giving in, but it intends to… Read more »
The draft proposal would make data retention laws taboo. As with the earlier anti-surveillance resolution it builds upon, this one comes from Brazil and Germany. Read more »
Bahnhof is the only Swedish ISP to still be holding out against a local data retention law that should arguably have been struck down following a major EU court ruling earlier… Read more »
A leaked consultation paper suggests that the Australian government has realised it’s a tad excessive to track which websites people visit. However, the tracking of available bandwidth and upload/download information seems… Read more »
In the wake of Europe’s top court invalidating the Data Retention Directive for having insufficient privacy safeguards, the British government is set to pass emergency laws allowing the core functions to… Read more »