The Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled on 18 June that the IP addresses are personal data in a case regarding APB (the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau, Antipiratbyrån), a lobby group representing copyright owners.

However, from the comments following the judgement, it became clear that this ruling will not stop the implementation of the Swedish IPRED Directive or the way the copyright holder representatives record and keep IP addresses in order to identify alleged file-shares.

A text of a draft law on Police Files initiated by the two French deputies Delphine Batho and Jacques-Alain Bénisti has been approved by the Laws Commission of the National Assembly. The draft law contains a new form of the EDVIGE file, nicknamed now EDVIGE 3.0.

EDVIGE was a new database created in June 2008 with the purpose of filing "individuals, groups, organisations and moral persons which, due to their individual or collective activity, are likely to attempt to public order". Not only these persons will be filed (without any offence committed), but also "those who undertake or have undertaken direct and non fortuitous relations with them." Filing was supposed to start at age 13 and the database would be used by French intelligence services and the administrative police.

Article 29 Working Party issued on 22 June 2009 an opinion on how European privacy laws affect social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace.

The opinion states the social networking sites should be responsible for the compliance to European privacy laws and, on the other hand, that users of such sites should upload pictures or information about other individuals only with the consent of the respective individuals.

Presently, social networking users share pictures and tag friends' images without requiring a prior consent and generally, communicate publicly, placing their own and others' private information on shared "walls".

The Data Protection Authorities recommend that users are given the opt out choice and are warned of the privacy risks and on the personal data th

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Deutsch: Das Stockholmprogramm – das neue gefährliche Überwachungssystem de...

Civil rights groups are worried about a new EU proposal that would enhance a "dangerously authoritarian" European surveillance and security system that will include ID card register, Internet surveillance systems, satellite surveillance, automated exit-entry border systems operated by machines reading biometrics and risk profiling systems.

On 15 June 2009, EU justice ministers discussed on the so called Stockholm programme trying to set up the first EU "domestic security strategy for the EU", by the end of this year.

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Deutsch: Deutsche Telekom untersucht das Sexualleben von Stellenbewerber

According to German newspaper Handelsblatt, Deutsche Telecom was keeping records about personal details of job applicants, including details about their sexual life.

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Deutsch: DRI gegen das irische Gesetz zur Kommunikationsabhörung

Digital Rights Ireland has lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission against Ireland over the Irish law on the interception of communications.

The Irish law, which is governed by the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993, applies only to telecommunications providers who operate under a licence or general authorisation.

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Deutsch: Französische Regierung will elektronische Kommunikationen überwachen