EU report reveals extent of police data sharing

Mobile phone operators are likely to feel the pinch even worse from today as they are forced to obey the rules set out by the European Commission over the maximum upper price of texts and calls within the European Union. (Ed :...

The European Parliament has dropped its insistence that a new requirement for telecoms firms to tell customers when their personal data is in danger be extended to online banking, email or other service providers.The European...

The European Parliament has voted to extend the length of time that copyright protects sound recordings by 20 years. The compromise position backed by MEPs needs the approval of European Union member states to come into force.The...

The European Union parliament, under the Impulse of Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reading, has approved plans to set lower charges for SMS and data across Europe starting from July 2009. MEP voted, by an overwhelming majority...

The European Commission has reiterated its demand for the creation of a single European patent. It said the absence of such a protection is hindering the growth of technology companies in the European Union.The Commission has...

The Council of Ministers of the 27 EU nations has rejected plans that would expand the scope of a European Union security breach law beyond telecoms companies. The European Parliament and privacy watchdogs had called for the...

Europe's privacy watchdogs have reiterated their demand for a data breach notification law and have said that a proposed new clause in an EU Directive could threaten computer users' privacy.The Article 29 Working Party is a...

The Government has proposed changes to the way in which electronic goods are recycled and hopes that the move will reduce the administrative burden on businesses. Businesses must recycle electronic and electrical goods under...

The House of Lords European Union Committee has said that the UK Government's desire to see passenger name record (PNR) data used for all serious crime and extended beyond just air travel could force it outside an EU-wide...

The European Parliament has said that copyright-infringing music and film file-sharing should not be criminalised. The Parliament has said that file-sharers should not be prosecuted as criminal offenders unless they seek to...

Computer printers could be violating European citizens' human rights the EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security has warned. Franco Frattini said that secret ID codes printed by machines could be invading users'...

Google has accused European Union authorities of attempting to use antitrust laws to tackle privacy issues. The company was defending its proposed acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick.The takeover has already...

The European Commission and US security authorities have agreed a new deal on the handover of airline passenger information. Data will now be kept for 15 years, far longer than the three-and-a-half year limit in an earlier...

Airline passenger information collected by US authorities must not be used for general law enforcement activities and must be deleted after three-and-a-half years, the House of Lords has said.In a just-published report on the...

The Government is not serious enough about protecting citizens' data when it comes to pan-European data sharing schemes, a parliamentary committee warned today. The Government should back the adoption of a sidelined data...