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ECHR: immigration detention judgment
Judgment of 24th Jan. The Saadi v UK judgment is due tomorrow (29th). Press release issued by the Registrar CHAMBER JUDGMENT RIAD AND IDIAB v. BELGIUM The European Court of Human Rights has today Read More
ECJ update: Akdas, Jipa, İŞİ Partisi, infiringement actions
1) The questions in the 'Akdas' reference on Decision 3/80 are now online in English 2) The A-G's opinion in the Jipa reference - see questions below -- is due Feb. 14th. 3) Read More
Launch of EU border management package
Here is the Commission's blurb on its upcoming border package: Wednesday 13 February: Launch of a border management package The news: The Commission will adopt a "border management package" aiming at improving external border control Read More
The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) repeals a provision of the Data Retention in the Internet Regulation
With a decision as of December 11, 2008 a five-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) repealed a provision of the Bulgarian Regulation # 40 transposing the Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) challenged by AIP. Read More
UK: 10,000 tasers to be given to UK police following pilot programme
10,000 TASERS for UK police (Home Office, pdf) Read More
Czech Republic: Czech Data Protection President: Democracy is flourishing, but not individual freedom
Igor Nemec, President of the Czech Office for Personal Data Protection speaks about individual freedom (pdf) Read More
Spain: Damning evidence surfaces of Aznar government collusion in Guantánamo flights
Renditions/Spain Damning evidence surfaces of Aznar government collusion in Guantánamo flights On 30 November 2008, El País published a "very secret" letter dated 10 January 2002 from the foreign affairs ministry's general director for foreign Read More
EU: European Commission launces an alternative, public consultation on EU justice and home affairs police
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the future priorities in the field of Justice and Home Affairs policy. The European Civil Liberties Network has produced an alternative questionnaire to provoke a more Read More
EU: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) press release – EDPS sees adoption of Data Protection Framework for police and judicial cooperation only as a first step
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Press release: EDPS sees adoption of Data Protection Framework for police and judicial cooperation only as a first step (pdf): "the EDPS repeatedly called for significant improvements of the proposal Read More
UK: Jacqui Smith appoints Vodafone man to draw up proposals for massive surveillance database
Jacqui calls Vodafone man to run massive snoop database (Register, link): Read More