“As from today EU Member States must comply with the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, which sets EU standards for the protection of privacy and personal data in electronic communications. The Directive includes basic obligations to ensure the security and confidentiality of communications over EU electronic networks, including internet and mobile services. It sets… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: EU Data Protection
EU v. U.S. Data Protection Policies
From the Wall Street Journal, October 10: “While the U.S. has opposed comprehensive regulations to protect citizens’ privacy, Europe has plowed ahead with the world’s toughest set of rules governing how companies and governments may deal with personal data, such as one’s age, marital status, buying patterns — even the information on a standard business… Continue Reading
EU Issues Update on Airline Passenger Data
Via Statewatch, this statement by the European Parliament on the need for strict restrictions on the collection, dissemination and maintenance of non-U.S. citizen personal data collected by airlines for transatlantic flights. List of 43 data elements on airline passengers requested by the United States from transatlantic air carriers. Continue Reading
EU Airline Passenger Data Resolution
25th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners Sydney, 12 September 2003 – Resolution concerning the Transfer of Passengers Data. See also EU challenges U.S. passenger data plan Continue Reading
New Report on Implementing EU Copyright Directive
From the independent group, the Foundation for Information Policy Research, this new guide, published September 8, Implementing the EU Copyright Directive, (128 pages, pdf). See this link for a table of contents to download specific sections in html, which include the following: Background; Problems in the United States; Immediate public policy objectives; Wider public policy… Continue Reading
Airline Passenger Data Conflict Between US and EU
From Statewatch.com: “European Commission tells USA that demands for access to data on airline passengers breaches EU Data Protection Directive – correspondence reveals that USA is also asking for Advance Passenger Information to vet those flying.” Continue Reading
Opposition to EU IP Directive
From European Digital Rights, an association of privacy and civil rights organizations in Europe: CODE Letter urging rejection of Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights. IP Justice White Paper on Proposed European Union IP Enforcement Directive Continue Reading
EU Objections to US Collection of Airline Passenger Data
Via StateWatch: The EU’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has issued a strong report on access by the USA to personal data on passengers flying from the EU to the USA. Continue Reading
Libraries, Copyright and Licensing
Copyright and licensing for digital preservation. “Libraries cannot preserve digital material they do not own. Adrienne Muir describes a new project to identify copyright and licensing issues that currently hinder digital preservation and looks at whether new legislation (UK) will help.” Continue Reading
UK Guidelines on Employee Web Monitoring
From Internet Magazine, news of the publication, by the UK Information Commissioner, responsible for data protection & freedom of information, of the third part of the Employment Practices Data Protection Code – Monitoring at Work, the Do’s & Don’t for workplace monitoring. Links to these documents, and to the other parts of the guide, are… Continue Reading
Proposed New EU Constitution
From UPI: “A proposed European constitution…calls for an elected president of Europe and a binding bill of rights, but at Britain’s insistence, it drops the notion of creating a federal “United States of Europe.” An edited version of the draft is available here. The full-text of the six documents (in pdf) are as follows: Preamble… Continue Reading
Advocacy Group Seeks to Block Transfer of European Passenger Data
European Digital Rights (EDRi), a non-profit coalition of privacy/advocacy groups based in Brussels, launched a campaign against the transfer of European travellers’ Passenger Name Records (PNR) to U.S. Customs. See the following related documents: EDRi campaign press release. Full text of Article 29 Data Protection Working Party: Opinion 6/2002 on transmission of Passenger Manifest Information… Continue Reading
