Brussels, 4 February 2013 — Today starts “Licences for Europe”, an initiative by the European Commission to discuss the issues of today’s copyright regime. Instead of planning for a broad reform that would break away…
A number of US NGOs and a pan-European industry group are speaking out against pressure from US lobbyists to relax EU privacy laws to suit Silicon Valley. […]
“We also found that the Europeans were excited…
Viviane Reding, the vice president of the European Commission and the justice commissioner of the European Union, was asked to comment on trans-Atlantic data protection issues for the Slipstream column by Natasha Singer in the…
EU businesses should not be allowed to use existing mechanisms for protecting personal data when sent outside the EU in cloud computing services, a European Parliament report has said. […]
Dimanche, nous indiquions que les ayants droit, en tout cas les indépendants de la musique, militent pour la mise en place d’une amende automatique de 140 euros au dernier stade de la riposte graduée. Un…
A number of civil rights organisations have jointly published a Brussels Privacy Declaration in support of better protection for EU citizens’ privacy. The declaration, which interested users can sign, sets out demands for the EU’s…
Ein Ausschuss des EU-Parlaments hat für eine Lockerung der Vorschläge für eine neue europäische Datenschutzrichtlinie gestimmt. Die Entscheidung ist allerdings nicht bindend, da der Ausschuss für Binnenmarkt und Verbraucherschutz (IMCO) nur einer von sechs Parlamentsausschüssen…
On Wednesday, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) voted in favour of relaxing the European Data Protection Regulation (DPR) proposals. Privacy campaigners say the parliament is giving in to…
La protection des données personnelles des internautes est-elle bien assurée en Europe ? Véritable serpent de mer, la question est revenue sur le devant de la scène avec l’adoption de nouvelles dispositions par la commission…
*** UPDATE [04/02]: see the opinion of the IMCO committee on the proposal for a regulation on the protection of personal data ***
*** UPDATE [30/01]: see the amendments adopted by the IMCO committee ***
Paris, 23…