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UK: When will security services stop harassing Jamal Osman?
"In 10 years only one of our journalists has been stopped at Heathrow and questioned but it happens virtually every time he goes through the airport, writes Channel 4 News Editor Ben de Pear." See Read More
EU: More excerpts from Draft Impact Assessment on the “modernisation of the EU copyright acquis
See: (1) Text and data mining, including “licensing of subscription based content” (2) Disabilities, including impact of WIPO Treaty (3) Legislative scenarios, including an “ambitious” and “much deeper level of harmonisation” (pdfs) See also: Previous Read More
Council of Europe: Prison overcrowding persists in Europe, says Council of Europe report
"European states are failing to significantly reduce overcrowding in prisons despite the increasing number of offenders monitored by probation agencies, according to the 2012 Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics (known as the SPACE I Read More
EU: European Commission: Replies of the Commission to the special report of the European Court of Auditors: “Lessons learned from the European Commission’s development of the second generation Schengen II Information System (SIS II)”
"The EC can only regret the overall poor recognition by many stakeholders of the decision-making arrangement". See the full text: European Commission: Replies of the Commission to the special report of the European Court of Read More
EU: European Commission: Draft Impact Assessment on the “modernisation of the EU copyright acquis”
See: (1) The role of copyright, the economic dimension, new technologies and the internet value chain (pdf) and: (2) Copyright and user generated content (pdf) Read More
GREECE: Amnesty International report
"The sheer volume of credible allegations of push-backs that Amnesty International has been able to document in the last nine months, very much suggests that they are routine: of the 67 people interviewed by Amnesty Read More
EU: European Data Protection Supervisor
"EU approaches to data protection, competition and consumer protection share common goals, including the promotion of growth, innovation and the welfare of individual consumers. In practice, however, collaboration between policy-makers in these respective fields is Read More
EU: Secret justice inside the EU courts: Proposed changes will allow EU judges to use secret intelligence as evidence and protect sanctions from legal challenge
"In March it was revealed that the European General Court (EGC) is seeking to rewrite its own rules to allow the use of intelligence as evidence in legal proceedings. While the executive and judiciary will Read More
USA-NSA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program
"Verizon in January filed a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s program that collects billions of Americans’ call-detail records, but a surveillance court rejected it..." See the full article: Surveillance court Read More
NORWAY: INTELLIGENCE GATHERING
"The Norwegian military intelligence service collects vast amounts of signal intelligence, known as «sigint». In Afghanistan alone NIS collected 33 million registrations from telecommunication during 30 days around Christmas 2012, according to their own revelations. Read More