December 15, 2010 – 5:24 pm
The traditional meeting between the justice and home affairs ministerial representatives of the United States of America (USA) and of the European Union (EU) took place the 8th and 9th December 2010. Ms Janet Napolitano, from the Department of Homeland Security and Mr Eric Holder, General Attorney of the Department of Justice have discussed with [...]
A few months after the rejection by the European Parliament of the Interim Agreement on TFTP between the European Union and the United States of America, a new agreement is under way, after it was signed on 28 June 2010 and will most probably be voted during the plenary in July (5-8). The new text [...]
The European Parliament adopted on the 5th May 2010 the two resolutions on SWIFT and PNR: European Parliament resolution of 5 May 2010 on the Recommendation from the Commission to the Council to authorise the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the United States of America to make available to [...]
The European Parliament will vote the resolution on the PNR agreement during the mini-plenary that will take place in Brussels on Thursday 6 May 2010. This after the LIBE Committee announced in April the intention to postpone the vote on the EU-USA PNR agreement, calling the Commission to put forward a more comprehensive measure defining [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Reports of the recent decision by an Italian court to issue suspended sentences against three Google exes for posting a video of a young person with downs syndrome being taunted has sparked a flurry of First Amendment concern. The opinion of reporters, at least in the U.S., has been nearly unanimous — “What were they [...]
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago in the blog (10 January 2010 – Directive on data retention: now the floor goes to the German Constitutional Court) the German Constitutional Court was preparing to make a decision about the German internal application of the controversial Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC), demanding telecommunication data retention from 6 months [...]
