Tag: data retention
  • Apr 20, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media,

Facebook’s massive data leak starts to have important knock-on effects – and potentially serious ones for Ireland

A couple of weeks ago, this blog wrote about Facebook’s huge data leak of 533 million personal data records online. As that post noted, despite the huge numbers involved, this wasn’t the first time sensitive data had been exfiltrated from Facebook on this scale. And yet on this occasion something has changed. Certainly not Facebook’s … Continue reading “Facebook’s massive data leak starts to have important knock-on effects – and potentially serious ones for Ireland”

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  • Mar 16, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

EU nations’ attempt to water down privacy protections could increase tension with US over personal data flows across the Atlantic

Last month, this blog noted that the EU’s important ePrivacy Regulation has now entered the final stretch of its legislative passage. An article on the Lawfare blog has spotted an interesting section in proposals from the Council of the EU, one of the three bodies that jointly agree new EU legislation. Although short – just … Continue reading “EU nations’ attempt to water down privacy protections could increase tension with US over personal data flows across the Atlantic”

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  • Oct 7, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Top court rules again that EU laws may not require general and indiscriminate data retention, but then muddies the privacy waters

National governments in the EU are very keen for communication companies to store traffic and location data for all their users. They claim this is necessary to enable the authorities to fight terrorism and serious crime. Such information may be helpful in some cases, but it also entails a massive invasion of privacy for hundreds … Continue reading “Top court rules again that EU laws may not require general and indiscriminate data retention, but then muddies the privacy waters”

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  • Nov 10, 2017 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

New Italian data retention laws forces ISPs to store phone usage and internet history for six years

Italian internet service providers (ISPs), and telecommunication companies are now forced to store the logs of your electronic communications data (telephone traffic data, electronic communications traffic data and data related to unsuccessful calls) for at least 6 years. Lexology poignantly calls this development in Italian law the “shadow of mass surveillance.” The Italian Senate has recently passed the final … Continue reading “New Italian data retention laws forces ISPs to store phone usage and internet history for six years”

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  • Jan 3, 2017 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Despite promises, metadata gathered by Australian mass surveillance may be made available to civil litigators, not just law enforcement

Australia, one of many countries that conducts mass surveillance with mandatory metadata logging laws, is planning to make your private information available in civil proceedings. When Australia initially passed the mandatory logging laws in 2014, government proponents, such as AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin, emphasized that information was only supposed to be made available for the … Continue reading “Despite promises, metadata gathered by Australian mass surveillance may be made available to civil litigators, not just law enforcement”

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