EU agreement on communications snooping 'unlikely'
News The Telecommunications Council in Brussels today will discuss the controversial draft directive on data protection and privacy in the electronic communications sector, but is unlikely to reach a common position.
[June 27, 2001, 13:19]
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 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]
UK failed to protect privacy over Phorm, says EC
News The Commission said the UK had failed to comply with both the European e-Privacy Directive and the Data Protection Directive. I therefore call on the UK authorities to change their national laws to ensure that British citizens fully benefit from...
[October 29, 2009, 16:54]
Police slammed for 'hysterical' response to EU privacy directive
News The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) last week issued what Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, called a "hysterical" response to the planned European directive on data protection and privacy in the...
[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]
Top UK sites 'do not comply' with anti-cookie law
News The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 -- Britain's implementation of the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, and came into force on 11 December -- makes it an offence for a UK company to send junk email or text...
[December 15, 2003, 12:35]
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]
EC prepares interception directive for email
News However, following France's allegations in February that the US and Great Britain were spying on French citizens without the consent of the French government, observers are predicting a specific directive addressing spying on member nations.
[June 8, 2000, 11:40]
Spam inquiry to focus on international laws
News The rules in Europe will change later this year when the European Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications is written into the laws of member states (including the UK). The directive, which is in line to be made UK law using secondary...
[June 16, 2003, 11:20]
ICO: UK may get data-breach notification law
News Deputy information commissioner David Smith said proposals to revise the EU's E-Privacy Directive could be the "catalyst" needed to get data-breach notification into UK law. Amendments to the directive would require "providers of electronic...
[July 4, 2008, 9:16]
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]
EU members ignore spam directive
News In its directive on privacy and electronic communications, the EU last year stipulated that all member countries should implement a localised version of the Directive by 31 October, 2003. The EU's anti-spam directive, which was passed in July 2003...
[April 27, 2004, 15:00]
Government: Our spam laws won't be enough
News It is the UK government's way of implementing the European Union's directive on privacy and electronic communications. Even in the UK, we can't expect complete compliance with the new directive," said Timms.
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Government purse key to breaking spam curse
News LINX outlined its views in more detail in its contribution to the government's consultation on the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive. The Department of Trade and Industry, which is overseeing the implementation of the directive...
[June 20, 2003, 12:24]
EU backs ISPs over file-sharing
News As the directive on privacy and electronic communications does not specify the rights and freedoms concerned by that exception, it must be interpreted as expressing the European Community legislature's intention not to exclude from its scope the...
[January 30, 2008, 13:55]
UK laws may help spammers look legit
News Similar laws are being brought in by other European countries, as part of the implementation of the EU directive on privacy and electronic communications. The UK government's anti-spam crackdown is likely to fail at tackling the problem of...
[July 4, 2003, 11:30]
European 'internet freedom' law agreed
News Consequently, if the old amendment had been adopted, the European Court of Justice might have annulled the electronic communications framework directive at a later stage," Parliament's statement read.
[November 5, 2009, 12:11]
Phorm/Webwise/ISP commercial piracy ,why wont you authorise the comments
Talkback Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 This DPI kit sits directly on the other side of your Broadband wire, and YOU can NOT stop each and every bit of your data being pushed though that DPI kit, that is then collected...
[June 9, 2008, 11:58]
