European Parliament restricts access to personal data
News The controversial EU directive, which was simply intended to update current laws to include modern means of communication, is likely to breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees a person's right to privacy.
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
EU agreement on communications snooping 'unlikely'
News The new directive, which was simply intended to update current laws to include modern means of communication, risks contravening data protection and privacy principles. The Telecommunications Council in Brussels today will discuss the controversial...
[June 27, 2001, 13:19]
UK law failing to nail spammers
News The Privacy and Electronic Communication regulations are an implementation of an EU directive that applies to all European countries. Not a single prosecution has been brought under the Privacy and Electronic Communication regulations and none is...
[December 13, 2004, 17:10]
EU data-retention directive leaked
News The EU, however, has said ISPs and the like should be compensated for any additional expense they incur as a result of the directive. The EU's plan for data retention will also necessitate the creation of a new body of law enforcement agents, the...
[August 2, 2005, 9:45]
Spam under fire from UK government
News The UK government has proposed its measures as a way of implementing the EU directive on privacy and electronic communications, which comes into effect later this year. Critics of the directive, though, have claimed that it will not significantly...
[March 27, 2003, 13:28]
Police slammed for 'hysterical' response to EU privacy directive
News The new Directive was intended to update current laws on privacy and data protection to include modern means of communication. The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) last week issued what Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for...
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
Bush lobbies EU to drop traffic data retention ban
News President Bush is calling for a change to the proposed EU directive on privacy and communications, to allow for the blanket retention of all traffic data for criminal investigations. It also rejects proposals contained within the draft EU...
[November 5, 2001, 13:04]
UK government urged to give spam the boot
News This plan -- under which people will still need to opt out of receiving spam emails and SMSs from companies they have an existing relationship with -- is the British government's preferred way of implementing the EU directive on Privacy and...
[June 10, 2003, 16:33]
Court victory in the fight against spam
News The UK government brought the EU directive into law in 2003. The decision, which comes three years after the European Union passed the directive on privacy and telecommunication, is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind in a...
[December 28, 2005, 12:20]
Swedish ISPs to erase users' data in privacy bid
News The new so-called Ipred law in Sweden, based on an EU directive, gives copyright owners the right to ask for customers' identity from ISPs, if a court agrees. On the contrary, European law on electronic communication demands that ISPs store traffic...
[April 29, 2009, 12:22]
UK firms warn of increasing spam burden
News Last year, the UK government implemented the EU directive on privacy and electronic communication. It looks as if the amount of spam hitting UK businesses is set to rise and is therefore likely to feature higher on the security risk agenda in the...
[April 1, 2004, 17:20]
