Jennifer Baker reports: The European Union’s data protection watchdog has called the Data Retention Directive the most privacy invasive instrument ever adopted by the E.U. On Friday the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx demanded that the European Commission demonstrate the necessity and justification for the directive with concrete facts and figures. “Without such…
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EU and US to Start Talks on Personal Data Security
Jennifer Baker reports: European Justice Ministers have agreed to work toward an accord with the U.S. on personal data protection. The decision was made at the Justice and Home Affairs Council on Friday. The news comes after two controversial deals to hand over European citizens’ information on banking and airline travel were pushed through in…
Jail terms more likely after Pirate Bay: expert
The appeals court ruling to confirm the convictions and custodial sentences against the backers of The Pirate Bay could lead to more file sharers being imprisoned, according to a Swedish copyright law prosecutor. The crime of file sharing is currently punished by fines or conditional sentences according to Swedish law, but the court ruling could…
Ca: Supreme Court allows police access to personal consumer information
Alan Shanoff has this editorial about a recent ruling that a consumer had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his electricity consumption data: … The question for the Supreme Court of Canada was simple: Should police have obtained prior judicial authorization allowing it to obtain data on Gomboc’s energy consumption. The answer to this question turns…