Privacy and data protection
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Data protection: A platform to flush out the lobbies
12 February 20132424PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
United Kingdom: Taming the Fourth Estate
30 November 2012788PresseuropFinancial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun -
Profile: Max Schrems, the man who de-friended Facebook
27 April 20129254 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Internet: Personal data vacuum cleaner
22 March 201247 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Internet: ACTA headed for dustbin
13 February 20121311PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Internet: Right to be forgotten law welcomed
25 January 2012577PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Internet: ACTA non grata
24 January 2012PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Internet: Commission to rule on right to be forgotten
2 January 201298PresseuropPúblico -
Privacy: Europeans open the Facebook files
24 October 20117823 The Irish Times Dublin -
Germany: Hackers uncover state spyware
11 October 20111551PresseuropPresseurop -
Netherlands: Dutch register will eat your cookies
30 August 201142PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
United Kingdom: Journalist’s letter reignites hacking scandal
17 August 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
United Kingdom: Phone-hacking scandal deepens yet again
29 July 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
United Kingdom: Murdoch faces down MPs
20 July 201121PresseuropPresseurop -
United Kingdom: Phone hacking scandal - police chief quits
18 July 2011PresseuropThe Times -
United Kingdom: Phone hacking: questions for police
15 July 2011PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
United Kingdom : Gordon Brown was hacked too
12 July 2011PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
United Kingdom: Murdoch flies in to save crumbling empire
11 July 2011PresseuropThe Times -
United Kingdom: PM’s future hacked by the Murdoch empire
7 July 2011121 The Daily Telegraph London -
United Kingdom: Hacking scandal now includes Tony Blair
9 June 2011PresseuropThe Guardian -
United Kingdom: Can’t gag the gagging orders debate
25 May 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Strauss-Kahn affair: Chronicle of a disgrace foretold
17 May 20111059 Mediapart Paris -
Privacy: Twitter user explodes gagging orders
10 May 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Privacy: The dubious blessings of the EU Commission
20 April 201117513 Der Standard Vienna -
Internet: EU vs Facebook – the battle for privacy
13 April 20115041 The Christian Science Monitor Boston -
Privacy: Forget me not
13 April 2011PresseuropBlog -
Social networks: EU will protect your 4am party shame
17 March 2011581PresseuropThe Guardian -
Air travel: Brussels to harmonise passenger surveillance
3 February 201112PresseuropTrouw -
Europol: Protest, an increasingly suspect activity
26 January 20117611 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
Italy: The end of the end of the line for Berlusconi?
18 January 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Personal data: Secret Portugal–US agreement exposed
17 January 2011PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
Diplomacy: Not such wicked leaks
2 December 20101003511 Libération Paris -
Germany: Don’t look for me on Google
11 August 20101PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Data retention: Is Europe building Big Brother?
9 August 2010127 The Christian Science Monitor Boston -
Police: EIO - anything to be alarmed about?
29 July 201030PresseuropEUobserver.com -
SWIFT: Privacy, victim of the Atlantic crossing
9 July 2010551 Trouw Amsterdam -
Banks: SWIFT deal buries data protection
29 June 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Private life: Arresting the cyber-police
3 March 201019 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
United Kingdom: Cash strapped Queen hit by ruling
21 December 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
European Parliament: MEP assistants quizzed about piles
16 December 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Terrorism: Attack of the killer suppositories
6 October 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
VAT: Eurofisc against eurofrauds
20 August 20091PresseuropEUobserver.com
Lord Justice Leveson’s much-anticipated report into British press standards was published yesterday and provided a damning indictment of media ethics. As a result of the scandal, which erupted over illegal interception of telephone calls, a host of journalists including two former News of the World editors, face criminal charges including bribery. 
A law student from Vienna is accusing Facebook of contempt for Europe’s data protection laws. For the company, which wants to go public soon, the attention comes at a bad time. 
Is Facebook too curious about its users’ data? A series of complaints initiated by an Austrian law student have led to a data protection audit in Ireland, where the social networking site’s European HQ is based. 
As more and more sordid revelations emerge of British tabloid News of the World’s culture of phone-hacking, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator argues that the buck stops with PM David Cameron, who is personally implicated in press baron Rupert Murdoch’s social clique.
The sudden fall from grace of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has raised two big questions in France. What now for the left that had pinned all its hope on the IMF chief to beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential elections? And why have the media been silent for years as to his troubled relations with women? 
Yesterday the energy saving lamp, today data retention. Tomorrow: recording your frequent flyer points and what hotel you stay in. Its highly questionable and intrusive meddling is costing the EU the trust of the public. 
The EU plan to pass an internet privacy law enshrining the “right to disappear” online will dramatically affect how companies like Facebook conduct business, and raises questions about freedom of expression on the web. 
EU countries have been swapping information with their allies in the "war on terror". Often it's just information on “troublemakers”, i.e. political protesters. And whether they have actually ever committed an offence makes no difference. 
For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or "Cablegate" not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication. 
What the European Union is giving to Internet users and online privacy activists with one hand, it's taking away with the other, argues an American newspaper, reporting on a groundswell of opposition to increased surveillance of personal data. 
On 8 July, the European Parliament approved a revised version of the SWIFT agreement, which will authorize the transfer of European bank data to the United States. However, the agreement, which was concluded after months of negotiations, does not reconcile the opposing views of the issue of data privacy that prevail in Europe and the United States. 
The German Constitutional Court has ordered the immediate deletion of all private telecommunications data stockpiled since 2008 in the fight against terrorism. But whilst civil rights activists are whooping it up, the Süddeutsche Zeitung regrets that the judges missed a golden opportunity to quash the contentious EU counter-terrorism directive.