Tag Archives: privacy

Access to data / content data / Data protection / interception / Internet intermediaries / Law enforcement / metadata / Privacy

What if Commissioners could be heard by the right people? Why DRIPA is getting muddier and muddier…

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Just before Christmas, the UK Interception of Communications Commissioner’s Office (IOCCO) published online its submission for the Investigatory Powers Review. It is a 51 p. document full of interesting things. The purpose of this post is to highlight the main points made by the IOCCO with a view to clarifying the debate as regards the … Continue reading →

digital identity / identity theft

Usurpation of identity à la française: the first application of Article 226-4-1 of the French Penal Code

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The French LOPSSI 2 Act of 2011 [LOPSSI stands for Loi d’Orientation et de Programmation pour la Performance de la Sécurité Intérieure] introduced into the French Penal Code a new Article 226-4-1 to criminalise the “act of usurping the identity of an individual or the act of using one piece or several pieces of data … Continue reading →

Data protection / Internet intermediaries / Privacy / Right to be forgotten

A structured overview of the Article 29 Working Party’s guidelines on the implementation of the right to … alter the structured overview of data-subject information generated by search engines (the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’)

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  The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party adopted on 26 November 2014 its guidelines on the implementation of the controversial Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment on Google Spain v. AEPD and Costeja (C-131/12). In that case, the CJEU ruled on three questions concerning the interpretation of the Data Protection Directive … Continue reading →

Data protection / Internet intermediaries / Law enforcement / Privacy / Surveillance / video surveillance

CJEU interprets the concept of ‘in the course of a purely personal or household activity’ and indirectly delineates the remit of the Data Protection Directive

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In its judgement of 11 December 2014 (Case C-212/13 František Ryneš v Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů) the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had to answer “a very precise” question [to use the words of Advocate General JÄÄSKINEN]: “Can the operation of a camera system installed on a family home for the … Continue reading →

Data protection / Internet intermediaries / Law enforcement / Surveillance

Are the Europeans that different from the Americans? Can online service providers rely upon their privacy policies to systematically gather the metadata and content data of online communications in order to detect all sorts of illegal activities and let law enforcement bodies know?

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That online service providers (OSPs), including Internet Service providers (ISPs), can do almost all what they want with our data, as long as they have a “decent” privacy policy, has just been confirmed in the US by the very recent decision of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. I have already … Continue reading →

Access to data / Internet intermediaries / Law enforcement / Privacy

Metadata, content data almost the same thing? Yes, implies a N.Y. District Court! But is it for good or bad?

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Shira A. Scheindlin, a District Judge from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a very interesting opinion on 28 October 2014 for those eager to know if the distinction between metadata and content data does make sense [members of the Peep Beep! team have already took their pens … Continue reading →

Data retention

Australian government proposes controversial mandatory metadata retention scheme for telcos

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Metadata definition going deep down under?  Australia has recently thrown a spotlight on the issue of metadata, a topic we have talked about already on this blog as a buzzword in today’s digital discourses that all too often lacks clear legal definition. Earlier this year, a leaked confidential discussion paper by the Australian Government became … Continue reading →

Data protection / Freedom of information / Privacy / Right to be forgotten

The First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) refuses to disclose the names of 4 police officers involved in a ‘car selling-scam’… and a few considerations about the right to be forgotten

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Some of the most vocal criticisms of the right to be forgotten as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its famous case decided on 13 May 2014 come from Internet giants. The Wikimedia foundation and the Wikipedia founder himself are no exception. “This right to be forgotten is the idea … Continue reading →