December 2011
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European Commission | EU | "Police and criminal... →
From 1. Context of the proposal:
“This explanatory memorandum presents in further detail the Commission’s approach to a new legal framework for the protection of personal data in the EU […]. The proposed new legal framework consists of two legislative proposals: a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the...
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WP29 | EU | [O]n EASA/IAB best practice... →
From the Conclusions:
“Adherence to the EASA/IAB Code on online behavioural advertising and participation in the website www.youronlinechoices.eu does not result in compliance with the current e-Privacy Directive. Moreover, the Code and the website create the wrong presumption that it is possible to choose not be tracked while surfing the Web. This wrong presumption can be damaging to users...
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Jure.nl | NL | LJN BU3924, Hoge Raad, 10/02479 →
Inhoudsindicatie:
Art. 81 RO. Kort geding. Persvrijheid; onrechtmatige publicatie? Art. 6:162, art. 10 EVRM.
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EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 9.24, 14 December... →
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Council of Europe and European Commission initiatives on Internet freedom
Brief overview of the leaked EU Data Protection Regulation
Russian Government’s new attempts to censor the Internet
European Parliament: raising awareness on “self”-regulation
Austria: Petition against Data Retention Directive
German web blocking law repealed
A fair Internet for...
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McAfee Labs | McAfee Threats report - third... →
From the report:
“There is a concept in science and engineering referred to as the signal-to-noise ratio. Without getting too geeky, it is defined as the ratio of signal power to noise power, essentially comparing the level of desired signal to the level of background noise. Informally, it often refers to the ratio of useful information to false, useless, or irrelevant information. Did we...
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Jure.nl | NL | LJN BR5551, Hoge Raad, 10/00049 →
Inhoudsindicatie:
Bewijsklacht feitelijk leiding geven. Computervredebreuk. Het oordeel van het Hof, dat heeft vastgesteld dat verdachte - hoewel daartoe bevoegd en redelijkerwijs gehouden - geen maatregelen heeft genomen om te voorkomen dat met de inlogcodes zou worden ingelogd op de nieuwsserver van het ANP, de aanmerkelijke kans heeft aanvaard dat van die inlogcodes gebruik zou worden gemaakt...
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Nico Westpalm van Hoorn, Peter Waters en Pieter... →
Uit de inleiding
“Interoperabiliteit laat zich niet begrenzen. De schaal voor informatieverkeer is de hele maatschappij, met zelfs internationaal bereik. De aanduiding elektronische overheid, bijvoorbeeld, is in dat opzicht alweer misleidend. Voor infrastructuur tellen niet primair de behoeften van overheidsinstellingen. Dat gelden ze voor fysieke wegen, bruggen, tunnels enzovoort tot en met...
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ENISA | EU | Operation Black Tulip - certificate... →
From the document:
“DigiNotar, a digital certificate authority (CA), recently suffered a cyber-attack which led to its bankruptcy. In the attack false certificates were created for hundreds of websites, including Google and Skype. Once the incident was made public, the Dutch government and browser vendors took steps to limit the impact of the attack. But Fox-IT suggests in their...
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European Commission | EU | [...] on the protection... →
From 1. Context of the proposal:
“This explanatory memorandum presents in further detail the Commission’s approach to a new legal framework for the protection of personal data in the EU […]. The proposed new legal framework consists of two legislative proposals: a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the...
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EMC | EU | European disaster recovery survey 2011... →
From the press release:
“74% of organisations are not very confident that they can fully recover after a disaster, according to a new survey of 1,750 European companies; 54% surveyed have lost data and/or suffered systems downtime in the last year; 61% report hardware failure as the primary cause of data loss and downtime; natural disasters and employee sabotage being much less likely...
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NOREA | NL | Voorlopige bevindingen en... →
Uit 4. Aanbevelingen voor de beroepsorganisatie
“Ten aanzien van assurance-rapporten en certificaten bestaat een verwachtingskloof tussen het vertrouwen dat door het maatschappelijk verkeer daaraan wordt ontleend en de feitelijke werkzaamheden die door IT-auditors dienaangaande worden uitgevoerd. Het bestuur neemt de suggestie over om met de leden een discussie te starten over de verhoging...
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Minister Donner (BZK) | NL | Kamerbrief... →
Uit ‘Vertrouwen en beveiliging van informatie’:
“Naar aanleiding van het rapport iOverheid van de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR) heeft het kabinet besloten om, zoals verwoord in de kabinetsreactie op het WRR-rapport (26643, nr. 211), de bestaande maatregelen ten aanzien van de beheersing van grote ICT-projecten uit te breiden met maatregelen ter bescherming...
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Big Brother Watch | UK | NHS breaches of data... →
From the ‘Main findings’:
“We received at least partial responses to our Freedom of Information Act request from 350 Trusts, indicating that there have been no fewer than 806 breaches of data protection policy at 152 NHS Trusts in the UK. This is an average of just over 268 cases per year, significantly higher than the total number of breaches reported by the Information...
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EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 9.23, 30 November... →
Scarlet v SABAM: a win for fundamental rights and Internet freedoms
Proposed US-EU PNR Agreement made public
Dutch Parliament: no discussions on ACTA if negotiations are still secret
Turkey launches Internet filtering scheme
US crackdown on global domain names and IP addresses continues
Italian Police blocks sites that had banners to alleged illegal websites
EU-US summit joint statement ignores...
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Stefan Larsson | Metaphors and norms -... →
From the Foreword:
“With metaphors we choose some aspects over others in order to represent a phenomenon. Nevertheless, in simple terms, how we conceptualise reality in a way also shapes reality. This is a fact that is very much relevant, not only to how the law is perceived, but also to how the law on copyright regulation is observed and enforced, and to how social norms emerge and persist....
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Henk Griffioen | NL | Privacy en vormen van... →
Uit de inleiding van hoofdstuk 1:
“De auto is als cultureel symbool en als min of meer afgesloten fysieke ruimte een soort home away from home. Een levenssfeer die toch persoonlijk is, hoewel men zich voortbeweegt op de openbare weg. De opkomst van tal van ict-applicaties – van automatische kentekenherkenning tot de ov-chipkaart – leidt op uiteenlopende manieren tot digitalisering van die...
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ENISA | Life-logging risk assessment (links to PDF... →
From the Final report’s Executive summary:
“ENISA undertook the task of developing a scenario identifying the risks, threats and vulnerabilities particularly regarding privacy and trust issues of a set of technologies grouped around the trend known as ‘Life-logging’. […] It is has become quite a profitable market and it is increasingly popular among citizens alongside social...
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Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen... →
From the Summary of findings:
“In our survey, we follow teens’ experiences of online cruelty – either personally felt or observed – from incident to resolution. We asked them about how they reacted to the experience and how they saw others react. We asked them about whether they have received and where they sought advice – both general advice about online safety and responsibility and...
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ENISA | EU | Cyber-bullying and online grooming -... →
From the Executive Summary:
“Although the issue of children’s exposure to internet risks has been addressed in great depth by many organisations (also during the generation of this report), we have performed this risk assessment in order to point out emerging risks and issue non-technical recommendations for their mitigation. Thus, we believe that the findings of this assessment will help in...
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Deloitte | Raising the bar - 2011 TMT global... →
From ‘Foreword and summary’:
“This year’s study shows [Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT)] organizations generally holding steady on their information security activities, budgets, governance, and reporting. Although steady is better than declining, this level of investment and effort is not nearly enough to stay on top of the rising challenges. […]...