data retention laws
Legal Eye: Who's tracking your online trail?
Comment While celebrating its 10th anniversary, Google has conceded to pressure and added a link to its privacy statement on its home page and reduced its data retention time limit from 18 to 9 months. Until... [01 Oct 2008]
Data headache looms for mobile operators
News Mobile phone operators and internet telephony companies will soon face the "onerous burden" of getting their systems compliant with new European data retention regulations. The EU Directive on... [08 Jan 2007]
On Privacy-Aware Information Lifecycle Management in Enterprises: Setting the Context
White Paper This paper aims at setting the context for privacy-aware information lifecycle management within enterprises, i.e.the process of handling the lifecycle of personal and confidential information in a way that is compliant with privacy... [07 Jan 2007]
Leader: Why privacy vs terrorism is no easy battle
Leader It's a debate that recurs over and over again whenever such laws are on the table - remember the European data retention directive and Ripa? As political climates change of course... [20 Sep 2006]
Terrorism must not mean privacy breaches, says EU data guru
News Hustinx has also voiced his doubts about the effectiveness of the European data retention directive, introduced in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Now the data... [20 Sep 2006]
Fresh calls for ISP data retention laws
News Gonzales asked senators to adopt "data retention" legislation that would be likely to force internet providers to keep customer logs for at least a year or two. It's unclear what the prospects are for... [20 Sep 2006]
US heading for online data retention law?
News Until Gonzales' public remarks last month, the Bush administration had generally opposed laws requiring data retention, saying it had "serious reservations" about them. Gonzales' earlier... [31 May 2006]
Tech must not invade privacy, says EU data protection head
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke in particular championed the need for more invasive data retention laws, saying the directive was necessary in order to prevent terrorism. A recent piece of... [07 Apr 2006]
Email archiving lapses spell corporate chaos
News A worrying 80 per cent - who are bound by data retention laws - are failing to delete records after the requisite time. Too few companies have woken up to the need to archive emails... [28 Mar 2006]
UK voted internet villain 2006
News Judges at the Internet Service Provider Awards said the UK's presidency of the European Union garnered the award for villainy because it failed to assess the impact of the data retention... [24 Feb 2006]
Europe to pass tough new data retention laws
News The European parliament has today passed new, far-reaching data retention legislation for the telecommunications industry. A separate data retention directive from the... [14 Dec 2005]
Internet's 'heroes' and 'villains' to be named and shamed
News In the firing line for the villain's gong are Russia, for failing to crack down on cyber crime, the UK presidency of the EU for attempting to push through data retention laws and the EC... [13 Dec 2005]
Euro data retention laws are inadequate and may be illegal
News Current EDPS Peter Hustinx, however, believes the measures now on the table are inadequate to fulfil their stated aim of helping law enforcement agencies to track down terrorists and may even contravene human rights laws. [27 Sep 2005]
EU could veto anti-terror proposals
News Should the Council's proposal unexpectedly obtain a majority, the requirement for a review of the measures in the form of an evaluation after three years in force should be incorporated into the text, so that the actual effectiveness of... [02 Jun 2005]
Legal Memorandum: Technologies That Can Protect Privacy as Information Is Shared to Combat Terrorism
White Paper Given the limited applicability of current privacy laws to the modern digital data environment, resolving this conflict will require the adoption of new policies for collection and access, use,... [08 Feb 2005]
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