Update (24 July 2015): The French Constitutional Council shows again its disregard for fundamental rights. This morning, after approving almost all dispositions in the Surveillance law, the Constitutional Council builds momentum by rejecting the Question…
Netzpolitik.org is arguably the most influential German blog in the realm of digital rights. It played a key role in marshalling protests against ACTA three years ago. You’d think the German government would be proud…
Paris, 16 July 2015 — European Parliament’s ITRE commission endorses the compromise adopted during the trialogue on 30 June regarding the regulation on telecommunications. Despite the improvements brought to the text compared to the…
Paris, 15 July 2015 — La Quadrature du Net strongly condemns the attempts to intimidate the German website Netzpolitik, accused of treason by the German court for publishing documents revealing the extension of Internet surveillance by…
Paris, 8 July 2015 — On Thursday 9 July, the European Parliament will vote on its own-initiative report on copyright reform, proposed by MEP Julia Reda. The report has been widely picked apart due to…
EU lawmakers sat down for their first meeting yesterday (24 June) to work out details on the EU’s data protection reform. Facing bumps ahead, negotiators said they were still committed to wrapping up the legislation…
Trade chief acknowledges more controversial TTIP will not happen this year. […]
Malmström said the legal experts from Brussels and Ottawa are “basically done” with the so-called “legal scrubbing,” the final stage for the Comprehensive Economic…
Initial interceptions lawful but retention and examination of communications illegal, rules IPT in case brought following Edward Snowden revelations
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PARIS — On Wednesday, France woke up to find that the National Security Agency had been snooping on the phones of its last three presidents. […]
UPDATE 20 JULY 2015 : Final version of the regulation (including recitals)
Paris, 30 June 2015 – After months of negotiations behind closed doors between the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the…