Keyword: Privacy
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De AIVD houdt zich niet aan aftapbevoegdheden. Een gezonde dosis paranoia zou advocaten daarom niet misstaan, meent Ot van Daalen.
Grondrechten, Privacy
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The Court of Justice and the Data Retention Directive in Digital Rights Ireland external link
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In Digital Rights Ireland, the Court of Justice invalidated the 2006 Data Retention Directive, which required private providers to retain for a considerable period electronic communication metadata for law enforcement purposes. In this landmark ruling, the EU judiciary introduced a strict scrutiny test for EU legislative acts that interfere seriously with important rights protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights—in this case, the rights to privacy and data protection—and applied a rigorous assessment of the proportionality of the measure under the Charter, criticising numerous aspects of the Directive. This article presents and analyses the judgment, discussing its implications for constitutional review and constitutionalism in the European Union, and the substantive and procedural constraints that it imposes on EU and national data retention schemes. It concludes by reflecting on the ruling’s impact on European integration and data related policies.
Data protection, data retention, electronic communications, EU law, Fundamental rights, Grondrechten, Ireland, Personal data, Privacy, proportionality
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Improving Privacy Protection in the area of Behavioural Targeting / Betere privacybescherming op het gebied van behavioural targeting external link
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Accountability unchained: Bulk Data Retention, Preemptive Surveillance, and Transatlantic Data Protection external link
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The innovations on which today’s Internet proliferated have been a major gift from its founders and the US government to the world. Ever since the rise of the Internet it has attracted utopian ideas of a free and borderless cyberspace, a men-made global commons that serves an international community of users. First commercialization and now the prevalence of state surveillance have significantly depreciated the utopist patina. Internet’s borderless nature which was once heralded to rise above the nation state has actually enabled some states to rise above their borders when engaging in mass surveillance that affects users on a global scale. International human rights law and emerging Internet governance principles have not been authoritative enough to protect users’ privacy and the confidentiality of communications.
More or less openly, Western democracies embarked on the path of mass surveillance with the aim to fight crime and defend national security. This chapter’s focus is on the safeguards and accountability of mass surveillance in Europe and the US and how this affects transatlantic relations. It queries whether national systems of checks and balances are still adequate in relation to the growth and the globalization of surveillance capabilities. Lacking safeguards and accountability at the national level can exacerbate in the context of transnational surveillance. It can lead to asymmetries between countries which are precisely at the core of the transatlantic rift over mass surveillance. The chapter concludes with a brief review of proposals how to reduce them.
accountability, Democracy, electronic communications, Grondrechten, Privacy, Surveillance
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Privacy in het Post-NSA tijdperk: tijd voor een fundamentele herziening? external link
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De recente NSA-affaire heeft een brede technologische ontwikkeling blootgelegd waarin zeer grote hoeveelheden persoonsgegevens worden verzameld, opgeslagen en verwerkt, zonder dat dit een vooraf en helder bepaald doel heeft. Alhoewel dit evidente privacyproblemen met zich meebrengt, lijken de meeste privacydoctrines, waarvan in Europa de belangrijkste artikel 8 EVRM is, niet toegesneden op deze nieuwe ontwikkeling.
Grondrechten, Privacy