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UK: Protection of Freedoms Bill provides long-awaited reform of Labour’s data retention regime
Thousands of innocent people are to be removed from the UK national DNA database, but alarmingly their records will still be held on the Police National Computer Read More
Netherlands-USA: SWIFT data and MLA treaty
According to an article in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad on the 19.03.2011, the Netherlands and the US are more closely linked in the fight against terror than perceived. The article brought to light the Read More
Amending the Regulation on public access to EU documents – the state of play – an “institutional impasse”
The question is how did the "institutional impasse" come about? Read More
Proposed Commission changes to Regulation on access to documents fails to meet Lisbon Treaty commitments
The public and civil society have a right to know what is being discussed during the EU legislative process Abolish the "space to think": Article 4.3 is used to deny access to documents concerning measures Read More