On 29 and 30 October 2014, the SURVEILLE project is going to organise together with the IRISS and RESPECT projects an Annual Forum for Decision Makers called “Democracy and Security”. This event is going to take place in the Diamant Brussels Conference & Business Centre (Bvd A. Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Brussels, Belgium). It will be […]

On June 8th the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published an opinion commenting on the Commission’s ‘Recommendation on preparations for the roll out of smart metering systems’ (issued March 9th), and on smart energy metering systems in general. Providing that the economic assessment to be carried out by Member States by the end of the […]

Data Protection and Privacy Data protection and privacy (as far as its overlapping facet is concerned) are concrete fundamental rights, whose enjoyment depends on the active provision of all the necessary conditions by data controllers and processors. The duty to inform data subjects about how their data are used, processed, and stored, is certainly included. […]

Recent news that the Metropolitan Police has put in place a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody has sent alarm bells ringing in certain quarters. Privacy International expressed concern over the Metropolitan Police’s use of the Radio Tactics ACESO mobile phone data extraction system. “We are looking at a possible […]

At the end of last month the Article 29 Working Party (WP) adopted a new opinion (PDF) on developments in biometric technologies. Almost ten years ago the WP wrote its first report on this matter, but since then the availability, cost, effectiveness and use of these technologies has “dramatically changed”, according to the body of […]