Showing posts with label data protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data protection. Show all posts
22 October 2017

UK and US Citizens: Please Request Your Personal Data Held By Cambridge Analytica

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By now, many people have probably heard about the company Cambridge Analytica .  By its own admission, it played a major role in the succes...
08 May 2015

TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy

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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), sometimes known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), is currently ...
26 July 2014

British Judge Rules Google Can Be Sued In UK Over Privacy Case

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The battle over online privacy, and how personal data should be treated as it moves over the Internet, is being fought between the US an...
24 July 2014

EU Data Protection Proposal Gets Stronger, But With Big Loopholes

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One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection . Because of its...
26 October 2013

Controversial EU Data Protection Regulation May Be Negotiated In Secret In Breach Of Parliamentary Process

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Today, the European Parliament held a three-hour long debate on PRISM, Tempora and what the EU response should be. Many wanted TAFTA/TTI...
20 July 2013

Why CISPA Shows We Need Strong EU Data Protection

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It seems hard to believe that it was only a little over a year ago that the threat from the US SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) was averted (...
31 March 2013

Is This What Google Really Thinks About Privacy?

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I've been writing quite a lot about the current Data Protection regulation that is being considered in the European Parliament. As I...
10 March 2013

EU Data Protection: Please Write to MEPs Now

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Last week I wrote about the revelation (to me, at least - maybe other people knew this was going on) that MEP s were simply cutting and ...
09 March 2013

How Lobbyists' Changes To EU Data Protection Regulation Were Copied Word-For-Word Into Proposed Amendments

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Everyone knows that politicians are lobbied, sometimes massively. But it's rare to be able to track directly the detailed effects of...

EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists

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It's becoming clear that the lobbying around the proposed EU directive on Data Protection is some of the most intense ever seen - so...
10 February 2013

The Battle for the Soul of EU Privacy

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As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, 2013 is already shaping up to be a year in which data protection is a key battleground. That...

EU Data Protection and Open Standards

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As happened for last year, 2013 will doubtless see plenty of battles in the domains of open standards, copyright and software patents, bu...
18 July 2007

An Unintended Act of Open Government

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Although unintentional in this case, here's a good example of why we need open government: "Big Brother" plans to automatical...
04 April 2007

It's (Open) Party Time!

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For anyone in Swinging London 2.0 next Wednesday, the place to be is the Open Rights Group party : It will be a night of public domain and o...