Peter Fleischer writes: When Europe introduced a Data Retention Directive in 2006, it struck a very very careful political and legal balance between the interests of privacy and the interests of Law Enforcement/ Government access to data. The core distinction of the laws was to impose an obligation on service providers to retain and produce traffic data…
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Data Protection and Privacy: Hitting a Real World Wall
Laurence Eastham writes: With doubts about implementation of the EU’s ‘cookie consent’ requirements and the suggestion that cloud cuckoo land has at last been found (apparently it is in Denmark), it is time to ask if there is a disconnect between commercial reality and privacy requirements. And whose fault is it?You may have missed the…
EU: Disagreement over who must apply privacy icon could hit self- regulation
There’s growing debate over how the online ad industry’s forthcoming privacy icon – the industry’s response to imminent EU privacy legislation – will be delivered. The icon, which is being piloted across a small number of sites, has been developed to alleviate consumer concerns, and is designed to appear on all ads served through retargeting…
Dutch Big Brother awards
I’ve been looking for an English-language story on the Dutch Big Brother Awards. So far, this brief report from Telecompaper: Dutch digital rights group Bits of Freedom issued four ‘Big Brother Awards’ to people and organisations the group claims form the biggest threat to personal privacy. Justice minister Ivo Opstelten received a jury prize for…