Privacy

Hi,
The European Commission published today its proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Digital_Rights 

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi was founded in June 2002 in Berlin by ten NGOs from seven countries. In March 2015, the European Council adopted a proposal that may compromise net neutrality, a major concern of EDRi.

https://edri.org/eprivacy-proposal-commission-leaves-european-parliament-lots-work/

10 Jan 2017
e-Privacy proposal - Commission leaves the European Parliament with lots of work to do
By EDRi

Today, on 10 January 2017, the European Commission published its proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation. This legislation is crucial to provide clear rules on tracking individuals as they surf the web, and on freedom of communication more generally.
"The European Commission has resisted the most extreme demands from certain parts of industry."
said Joe McNamee, Executive Director of European Digital Rights.
"However, to promote trust, privacy and innovation, the proposal still needs significant improvement."
The European legal framework protecting our personal data (the General Data Protection Regulation (https://edri.org/gdpr-document-pool/) and Law Enforcement Directive (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016L0680) on Data Protection) has been recently updated. New devices and technologies that make our life easier in many aspects, also create new threats to our privacy. The role of the e-Privacy Regulation is to clarify the existing legislation, by providing specific rules related to citizens’ freedoms in the online environment.

The outcomes of the European Commission’s consultation, conducted before the drafting of the new legislation, showed significant differences (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/summary-report-public-consultation-evaluation-and-review-eprivacy-directive) in priorities between individuals and industry. In the short term, big business would like to take shortcuts to a “big data” society. However, there is no real shortcut.

The last EuroBarometer on e-Privacy (http://ec.europa.eu/COMMFrontOffice/publicopinion/index.cfm/ResultDoc/download/DocumentKy/76378) shows that what both individuals and business need the same thing: clear rules that inspire trust. Without clear rules and strong safeguards, it is easy for a minority of businesses to destroy trust for everybody and damage individuals’ rights.

Read more:
e-Privacy Directive revision: Document pool
https://edri.org/eprivacy-directive-document-pool/
e-Privacy Directive revision: An analysis from the civil society (06.07.2016)
https://edri.org/epd-revision-analysis/
Data Protection Reform – Next stop: e-Privacy Directive (24.02.2016)
https://edri.org/data-protection-reform-next-stop-e-privacy-directive/
Your privacy, security and freedom online are in danger (14.09.2016)
https://edri.org/privacy-security-freedom/

https://edri.org/eprivacy-directive-document-pool/

13 Dec 2016
e-Privacy Directive revision: Document pool
By Diego Naranjo

New devices are being developed and increasingly these technologies have the ability to connect to the internet and communicate between them. These devices, while making our life easier in many aspects, they also create new threats to your privacy. We are explaining in our series of blogposts on privacy (https://edri.org/privacy-security-freedom/) the freedoms that are under threat.

European legislation protecting your personal data (the General Data Protection Regulation (https://edri.org/gdpr-document-pool/) and Law Enforcement Directive on Data Protection (https://edri.org/data-protection-directive-law-enforcement-loopholes/)) has been recently updated, but the battle to keep your information safe is not over yet. The European Union is revising its legislation on data protection, privacy and confidentiality of communications in the electronic communications environment: the e-Privacy Directive (https://edri.org/epd-faq/). This piece of  legislation contains specific rules related to your freedoms in the online environment.

This new battle for our freedoms starts once the European Commission will publish its proposal on the e-Privacy Directive on 11 Januar 2017. In this document pool we will be listing all the relevant documents as they are made public. This will allow you to follow the developments on the review of the Directive:

EDRi’s analysis
    EDRi’s analysis on the revision of the e-Privacy Directive (https://edri.org/epd-revision-analysis/) (06.07.2016)

Legislative documents:
-Leak on the draft proposal for the revision of the e-Privacy Directive (http://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/POLITICO-e-privacy-directive-review-draft-december.pdf) (12.12.2016)
-Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=41241) (10.01.2017)

Consultations, reports, studies, events:
-EDRi’s response (https://edri.org/files/epd-revision/ePD_consultation_2016_EDRi.pdf) to the public consultation on the evaluation and Review of the ePrivacy Directive (05.07.2016)
-EDPS Opinion on the revision of the e-Privacy Directive (https://secure.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Consultation/Opinions/2016/16-07-22_Opinion_ePrivacy_EN.pdf) (22.07.2016)
-Summary report on the public consultation on the Evaluation and Review of the ePrivacy Directive (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/summary-report-public-consultation-evaluation-and-review-eprivacy-directive) (04.08.2016)
-EuroBarometer on ePrivacy (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/eurobarometer-eprivacy) (12.12.2016)
-European Commission: ePrivacy: consultations show confidentiality of communications and the challenge of new technologies are key questions (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/eprivacy-consultations-show-confidentiality-communications-and-challenge-new-technologies-are) (12.12.2016)
-REFIT and Impact assessments (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/regulation-privacy-and-electronic-communications) (10.01.2017)

Read more about privacy and e-Privacy Directive:
e-Privacy Directive: Frequently Asked Questions
https://edri.org/epd-faq/
Your privacy, security and freedom online are in danger (September-December 2016)
https://edri.org/privacy-security-freedom/

The text:
http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=41241

That's what we're talking about:
https://edri.org/privacy-security-freedom/

14 Sep 2016
Your privacy, security and freedom online are in danger
By EDRi

We carry more intimate information on the devices in our pockets and on our wrists than most personal diaries. For instance, our browsing history alone can already tell a lot about us and who we are, where we are, what we do in our free time, our fears, our political views and our relationships.

Unscrupulous companies now want to water down European rules on the privacy of our communications. This also increases threats to our freedoms – our freedom to have secrets, our freedom to be different or our freedom to make mistakes.

The EU now has the opportunity to protect our rights and freedoms in an upcoming reform (ePrivacy) – or it can turn them into fresh meat for corporate sharks.

In the coming weeks, you can stay tuned to learn about how to defend your privacy and to keep enjoying your freedoms. Join our campaign, check our website for more information about each and every of these 6 threats below – and we’ll give you the tools to protect yourself online.

… and we would like to introduce you to John, who is struggling with the same problems:

The video was prepared by our member Association for Technology and Internet (ApTI) – Romania (https://www.apti.ro/).

Read the blogposts:
    #1 Freedom to be different: How to defend yourself against tracking (https://edri.org/freedom-to-be-different/)
    #2 Freedom to have secrets: How to keep your information private (https://edri.org/freedom-to-have-secrets/)
    #3 Freedom to make mistakes: How to defend yourself from abuses (https://edri.org/freedom-to-make-mistakes/)
    #4 Freedom not to be manipulated: How to fight weapons of math destruction (https://edri.org/freedom-not-to-be-manipulated/)
    #5 Freedom not to be labelled: How to fight profiling (https://edri.org/freedom-not-to-be-labelled/)
    #6 Freedom to stay anonymous: How to defend yourself against online surveillance (https://edri.org/freedom-to-stay-anonymous/)

Beware!