April 20, 2010 – 12:14 pm
European Commission: Stockholm Programme: Statewatch Analysis: Action Plan on the Stockholm Programme: A bit more freedom and justice and a lot more security (pdf) by Tony Bunyan: “The “harnessing of the digital tsunami” as advocated by the EU Future Group and the surveillance society, spelt out in Statewatch’s “The Shape of Things to Come” is embedded in [...]
By Leda Bargiotti
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Several countries around the world have already installed body scanners in airports, including the Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam. Several politicians coming from both sides of the Atlantic visited the airport, in order to assess the extent to which such a measure is proportionate and effectively increases security in the airports. The technology employed in [...]
The LIBE Committee discussed on 7 April 2010 the re-launch of negotiations on a SWIFT long term agreement. It has to be recalled that following the European Parliament refusal to provide its consent on the US-EU SWIFT Interim Agreement last February a new draft-negotiating mandate has been indeed submitted by the College of Commissioners on [...]
The freedom on the Internet is increasingly at risk, as the following three recent examples demonstrate: the on-going secret negotiations on the ACTA agreement, the conviction of three Google executives by an Italian prosecutor and the new approach of Google to China. Hence, following the digital platform debate hosted by the European Parliament on 24 [...]
