Legality of EU data retention. Data retention law. Article 29 Data Protection Working Party reports on implementation of Data Retention Directive « Information Security Breaches & The Law. Article 29 Data Protection Working Party reports on implementation of Data Retention Directive I.
Background – Enforcement The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (“WP29”), comprised of the European Data Protection Authorities (“DPAs”), has adopted on July 13, 2010 a report (the “Report”) on the European Union Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (“D.R. Directive”). This report is the WP29’s contribution to the evaluation of the implementation of the D.R. directive by the European Commission, which is due by September 15, 2010. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center’s High Performance Storage System (Photo by: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, 2009) Indeed there is a tension between the e-Privacy Directive and the D.R.
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Commission requests TO Germany and Romania. LEAKED DOCUMENT. Google Translate. How The New ‘Protecting Children’ Bill Puts You At Risk. Last Thursday the U.S.
House of Representatives' judiciary committee passed a bill that makes the online activity of every American available to police and attorneys upon request under the guise of protecting children from pornography. Note: Update with citizen petitions on page 2. The Republican-majority sponsored bill is called the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. It has nothing to do with pornography, and was opposed by over 30 civil liberties and consumer advocacy organizations, as well as one brave indie ISP that is urging its customers to do everything they can to protest the invasion of privacy.
"Protecting Children" forces ISPs to retain customer names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and dynamic IP addresses. It's like having your wallet plus the web sites you visit tracked and handed over on request. (I have to wonder if ISPs can sell this data, too.) This has nothing to do with porn. Czech Supreme Court Kills Data Retention. In a verdict today, the Czech Constitutional Court killed the Czech implementation of the detested Data Retention Directive.
Ubiquitous surveillance of every human being is not compatible with fundamental rights. That brings the number of countries to arrive at that conclusion to five. The verdict (Google Translate) refers heavily to paragraphs in Czech law, but the overall content of the verdict is crystal clear: it is in violation of fundamental rights with regards to privacy, it does not meet basic requirements for reducing such fundamental rights, and it is not proportional to register everybody’s communications just because that data may come in handy in later criminal investigations.
The Data Retention Directive is a European-level directive which requires all its member states to register every phone call, email and SMS message done between people: when it took place, from where, when, and for how long. Ireland Requires Storage of Internet Traffic Data - Davis Wright Tremaine. In one of its last acts in office, the Irish government has finalized legislation that will require ISPs to keep logs of their subscribers’ use of the Web for one year.
The information will be available to the police and other government authorities upon request. Ireland’s adoption of the storage requirement is significant as Ireland is home to many Internet hosting businesses and company data centers and the Irish authorities have argued for a broad application of the law to Internet-based businesses with activities in Ireland. IP addresses, destination of e-mails and recipients of VoIP calls to be kept for a year. Tech and Law: Google - data retention periods for different services (including deleted data)
Bookmark this on Delicious <a href=' history</a> From a privacy viewpoint, how long a service provider keeps your personal data is important.
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Draft General Data Protection Regulation - where it went wrong. Last week a coalition of NGOs issued a report on the latest changes to the draft General Data Protection Regulation made by the Council of Europe titled “Data Protection Broken Badly”.
The eight page document talks about a number of issues such as the “one stop shop”, “legitimate interest” and consent. As someone who has followed the Draft since it was first leaked in December 2011 and was present at the “launch” of the document by the European Commission in Brussels on 25th January 2012 – I feel it is important to put the latest changes into context. First and foremost, I agree that the changes by the Council are appalling – there is no disputing that. However, it is not at all surprising and is really par for the course and illustrates the very real problem we have with the issue of corporate lobbying. The draft GDPR has been hammered, reforged, twisted and mutated since before it even became public in 2012. Privacy watchdogs urge more data retention harmonisation. The Beginning of the End of Data Retention. Deep web.