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In a letter sent to IAB Europe and European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA), Article 29 Working Party (WP) made some observations regarding the self-regulatory framework for online behavioural advertising.

The WP considers that the companies having signed the self-regulatory code may still be in breach of the EU laws in the use of cookies to track users' online behaviour for targeted advertising.

The self-regulatory code, established in April 2011 by IAB Europe and EASA, imposes the

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Deutsch: EU-Staaten müssen sich für bisherige Nicht-Umsetzung der EU-Telekomm...

The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice requesting information from 20 EU countries regarding the reasons why they have not yet fully implemented the EU Telecoms Package.

The EU member states were supposed to produce national legislation that would implement, by 25 May 2011, the EU Telecoms Package, adopted late 2009, but only seven states have fully complied until now.

The Telecoms Package includes amendments to

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Deutsch: Vereinigtes Königreich kommt wegen Phorm vor den Europäischen Gerich...

The European Commission announced that it has referred the UK to the European Court of Justice for an improper implementation of EU data protection rules, following several complaints in the Phorm case.

The Commission received complaints from the UK citizens about Phorm that worked by checking out the web traffic between an ISP client and the sites it visits.

This form of behavioural advertising by ISPs (targeted advertising based on prior analysis of users' internet traffic) was reported by EDRi-member Open Rights Group and others NGOs to the UK Data Protection Authority - Information Co

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Deutsch: Artikel 29 Datenschutzgruppe zu Cookies in der neuen ePrivacy-Richtlin...

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP) representing the European data protection authorities published on 24 June an opinion clarifying the application of the data protection rules in online behavioural advertising, with a focus on the new text of the ePrivacy Directive.

Article 29 Working Party believes that while online behavioural advertising may be beneficial for businesses and users alike, it still raises personal data protection and privacy issues.

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Deutsch: Bits of Freedom startet Kampagne für Benachrichtigungspflicht bei Dat...

The Dutch digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom started a campaign for the introduction of a data breach notification law in The Netherlands.

A data breach notification obligation on telecom providers is already to be implemented on the basis of the ePrivacy Directive, but Bits of Freedom insisted that this obligation should be extended also to other corporations and organisations. It drafted an extensive position paper, including a concrete proposal for amending the Dutch Data Protection Act.

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Deutsch: Seminar des Europäischen Datenschutzbeauftragten: Reaktion auf Datenv...

On 23 October 2009 the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) organised a seminar on security breaches. The three sessions focussed on the prevention, the management and the reporting of data breaches.

Background of this seminar was the upcoming reform of the ePrivacy directive (2002/58), which requires telecommunication providers to inform on security breaches related to personal data.

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