Lodge Juliet

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• German constitutional challenge on Data Retention

  22 April 2008
  The complaint challenging the German data retention law in front of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has become the biggest constitutional case in German history with the submission of more than 34000 signatures backing up the action. The Working Group on Data Retention has also prepared an amicus curiae brief that it wants to submit to the European Court of Justice in the case Ireland vs. the Data Retention Directive and that can be signed by other NGOs.

• A question of identity becomes a matter of freedom

  24 December 2007
  The way in which biometric information and especially digitised data can be transmitted across borders without the explicit consent or knowledge of the data subject , the risks of outsourcing and inadequate accountability mechanisms and security architectures for public-private partnerships are examined and criticised in this press article by Juliet Lodge for Challenge

• Are you who you say you are? The EU and Biometric Borders

  26 November 2007
  The question of proving identity using biometric information, storing, accessing and verifying it raises more than technical questions. It goes to the heart of the legal and political values of our politics. The prospect of cross-border automatic information exchange and e-governance beg questions about how an abuse of power can be avoided, democratic accountability sustained, and liberty and security brought into balance.

• Inter-operability and Accountability in the EU

  3 September 2007
  As Director of the University of Leeds’ contribution to the ‘Challenge’ research programme on balancing security and liberty (funded by the EU’s Sixth Framework programme and involving over 20 universities across Europe), I am responsible for leading work on biometrics, ICTs for cross-border information exchange in the EU and the issues of transparency and accountability that they occasion. I gave oral evidence on inter-operability and the principle of availability to the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee at the Public Hearing on the Future of Europol in April 2007.

• The (non) Role of National Parliaments in the EU’s AFSJ and the Security Policies on New Technologies

  9 July 2007
  Paper for the 4th Annual CHALLENGE conference provides an overview of the role of national parliaments vis-a-vis freedom, security and justice. It traces this alongside the evolution of electronic information exchange and places it within the historial trajetory of parliamentary development in the EU. It concludes wiht a few recommendations for the future, including the need for the European Parliament to exploit its budgetary authority in this sphere in order to exercise firm control and exert influence at the supranational level.

• Call for papers : Roundtable on Ethics and security cooperation

  6 December 2006
  The exceptionalism of the ever-widening security agenda that permeates increasing areas of EU policy potentially compromises accountability and responsibility mechanisms taken for granted in Western democratic systems. How does exceptionalism affect the public sphere, as the space of communicative action and a space of political participation? How can balance be achieved between the requirements of ‘security’ and attendant exceptionalism with the overarching political EU goals of freedom, security and justice.

• Trends in Biometrics

  4 December 2006
  Ad hocism, finance and industry drive trends in policies and emerging choices. The EU 25 diverge over the choice of biometrics, ID cards and passports, inter-operability, format, document durability, technical scope of the attendant technology (including document readers, staff training), quality codes of practice, ability and interest in measures to combat malevolent insider action. There are discrepancies between government rhetoric and practice. There are claims that data protection is primary but inadequate attention seems to be paid to combating opportunities for fraud, including out-sourcing to private sector concerns inside the state or to third states .Out-sourcing poses a serious threat. Proper risk assessment and the introduction of appropriate, strong democratic controls are essential to the success of the Hague. The claims of biometrics are poorly communicated, soft law abounds with weak controls and inadequate levels of knowledge about the respective technologies and the possibilities opened by them. National parliaments with a strong EP must ensure accountability and legitimacy. There is an urgent need for a framework directive on data protection for law enforcement purposes before realising the principle of availability and widespread inter-operability, and to set out an EU model on biometricised egovernance.

• Communicating (in)Security: A Failure of Public Diplomacy?

  13 November 2006
  This paper attempts to unravel elements of the problem of communicating security to citizens in the EU and to show how it is tangled up in the misleading dichotomous rhetoric of security or liberty. The resulting failure of public diplomacy leads to sub-optimal policy outcomes and accountability deficits.

• Biometrics in Europe - Trend Report 2006

  18 July 2006
  This Trend Report by the European Biometrics Portal gives a brief overview of the developments over the past year on matters relating to the deployment of biometric identifiers.

• Security and Privacy in Estonia

  23 May 2006
  The decision to issue compulsory eID cards in Estonia was taken in 2000, and the first cards were introduced in 2002. The scheme is regulated by the Identity Documents Act. Data on all holders - including the personal ID numbers - are available in a public certificate directory. The cards contain two authentication keys, and a unique personal email address which is designed to be valid for life. It is used to forward communications to an individual’s ‘real’ email accounts. By the end of May 2005 around 765,000 cards had been issued to citizens.

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