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Deutsch: Koalition der Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert globale Standards im Datens...

The Public Voice, the largest worldwide civil society coalition where EDRi is a an active member, will discuss "Global Privacy Standards in a Global World" during its conference on 3 November 2009 in Madrid, Spain, to be held in conjunction with the 31st Annual International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.

Prominent advocates and experts from the academic, consumer, digital rights and labor communities will discuss with public officials and the business sector how to raise privacy awareness in the global community and how to promote civil society participation in decision

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Deutsch: Der Arbeitskreis Artikel 29 äußert sich zu Social Networking

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 informati

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Deutsch: Die Telekomminister lehnen das Telekompaket in der vom EP angenommenen...

The European Commission continues to pressure the Council and the new European Parliament to rapidly adopt the telecoms package without a proper scrutiny of the law or any consideration of the implications of Amendment 138.

At the Luxembourg meeting on 11 June 2009, the telecoms ministers decided to reject the telecom package in the form adopted by the European Parliament in the second reading on 6 May 2009, thus proposing a new round of negotiations.

The ministers consider the Parliament has breached the earlier compromise reached with the Council on the telecoms package as a whole, obviousl

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Deutsch: Europäisches Parlament schränkt Meldungen von Datenverstößen ein

The modification of the Privacy and Electronic Communication directive voted by the European Parliament (EP) on 6 May 2009, as part of second reading of the telecom package, limits the data breach notification only to the electronic communications service providers.

Initially, in its first reading of the telecom package last year, the European Parliament insisted to expand the data breach notification beyond the initial provision, to online services or even public administration. This idea was supported by privacy experts such as Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor who insisted to apply