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• Seminar : Antiterrorism, Risk and Intelligence-led Logics

  27 November 2007, by Challenge French Team
  The research group on « Mapping the Field of Security in Europe » invites you to the Challenge-COST Joint Seminar: Antiterrorism, Risk and Intelligence-led Logics

• Closing speech on Public Security, Privacy and Technology

  21 November 2007, by Frattini Franco
  Although the respective requirements of public security and privacy at times may seem to be in conflict, they are very closely interlinked. And we witness it in everyday life. Today’s technology enables information to go around the world in a flash. This technology also enables us to better control access to data, and to pinpoint relevant data. Today’s presentations showed that a proper deployment of technology could be a key reconciling security and privacy needs.

• Data Protection in the EU’s Internal Security Cooperation – Fundamental Rights vs. Effective Cooperation?

  19 November 2007, by McGinley Marie, Parkes Roderick
  European home affairs cooperation has often been characterised by the disinclination of national security officials to submit themselves to robust common rules, institutions and human rights standards. Cooperation has frequently occurred outside the formal framework of the European Union (EU) at a more informal and ad-hoc level. Even within the EU framework, rights standards as well as judicial and parliamentary oversight remain patchy.

• Class-action law suit against data retention planned in Germany

  19 November 2007, by Challenge
  After implementing legislation of the EU data retention directive has passed German Parliament on 9.11.2007, a mass class-action challenging this act before the German Constitutional Court is currently under preparation. In a press release of the German privacy NGO Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung it is stated that until 16.11.2007 already 13.000 citizens have joined this class-action which is unprecedented in German constitutional law.

• Report on the EURODAC audit: EDPS welcomes conclusions for improved security of the system

  14 November 2007, by Contrôleur européen de la protection des données
  The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) today delivered the report on the results of a security audit on the EURODAC system to the European Commission. As the supervisory authority of the Central Unit of EURODAC, the EDPS launched a comprehensive inspection which was completed in March 2006. This was followed by a decision to initiate an in-depth security audit, the results of which were presented to the European Commission.

• Rapport d’audit sur EURODAC : le CEPD soutient les conclusions pour l’amélioration de la sécurité du système

  14 novembre 2007, par Contrôleur européen de la protection des données
  Le Contrôleur européen de la protection des données (CEPD) a transmis aujourd’hui à la Commission européenne le rapport sur les résultats d’un audit de sécurité sur le système EURODAC. En tant qu’autorité de supervision de l’Unité Centrale d’EURODAC, le CEPD a lancé une inspection d’ensemble qui s’est terminée en mars 2006. Une décision a ensuite été prise d’entreprendre un audit de sécurité approfondi dont les résultats viennent d’être présentés à la Commission européenne.

• How the CIA Helped Germany Foil Terror Plot

  12 November 2007, by Der Spiegel International
  With the help of the CIA, German investigators foiled what would likely have been the most devastating terror attack of its kind in the country’s history. The plans of a fanatical group of Islamists trained in Pakistan reveal just how great a risk Europe faces.

• Proposal for a COUNCIL FRAMEWORK DECISION on the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) for law enforcement purposes

  6 November 2007, by European Commission
  The purpose of this proposal is to have air carriers make PNR information available to law enforcement authorities in the EU Member States and help them in the prevention and fight against terrorist offences and organised crime.

• Devant la commission des lois, le président de la CNIL Alex Türk se montre préoccupé par l’évolution des pratiques sécuritaires et technologiques

  30 octobre 2007, par Sénat
  Entendu par la commission des Lois du Sénat, présidée par M. Jean-Jacques Hyest (UMP, Seine-et-Marne), M. Alex Türk, président de la Commission nationale informatique et libertés (CNIL), a souligné les risques au regard des libertés individuelles des évolutions en cours dans les pratiques sécuritaires et technologiques.

• CNIL - Remise du rapport annuel et audition de son Président M. Alex Türk

  30 octobre 2007, par Sénat
  La commission a procédé à l’audition de M. Alex Türk, président de la CNIL, et de Mme Anne Debet, membre de cette commission, à l’occasion de la remise du rapport annuel de la Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) et du rapport intitulé « Mesure de la diversité et protection des données personnelles »

• A comparison of the now agreed VIS package and the US-VISIT system

  22 October 2007, by Hobbing Peter
  In recent years, U.S. and EU have both set up border-related database systems with striking similarities as regards names and major development phases occurring in the historical context of post-9/11. Nevertheless doubts are appropriate as to how far the parallels go between the European VIS finally adopted as an instrument of the common visa policy and US-VISIT known for its dedicated role in the «war against terrorism».

• Draft Council Conclusions on access to Eurodac by Member State police and law enforcement authorities

  9 October 2007, by European Council
  Under the Hague Programme (No. 2.1.), better exchange of information, including by means of more extensive access to existing EU information systems, is one of the ways in which the aim of strengthening security is to be achieved. To combat terrorism and other serious crimes it is inevitable that police and law enforcement authorities have access, within the scope of their powers, to the most comprehensive and up-to-date information possible.

• Data Protection Framework Decision: EDPS concerned about dilution of Data Protection standards

  25 September 2007, by European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
  The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has today welcomed the continued efforts by the Portuguese Presidency to find agreement on the Data Protection Framework Decision (DPFD) in police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. However, he expresses concern about the agreement by the Council of the European Union on Tuesday to limit the scope of the DPFD so that the text will only apply to the cross-border exchange of personal data. The EDPS emphasises that a drive for agreement should not dilute the level of protection for personal data provided in police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

• Décision cadre relative à la protection des données : le CEPD est préoccupé par la dilution des normes de protection des données

  25 septembre 2007, par Contrôleur européen de la protection des données
  Le Contrôleur européen de la protection des données (CEPD) encourage les efforts continus de la présidence portugaise visant à parvenir à un accord sur la décision cadre relative à la protection des données (DCPD) dans le cadre de la coopération policière et judiciaire en matière pénale.

• EU’s biometric database continues to ensure effective management of the Common European Asylum System

  18 September 2007, by European Commission
  The annual report on the activities of EURODAC (the EU wide biometric tool which helps determine which Member State is responsible for examining an asylum claim)in 2006, was published today by the Commission. The report gives essential information on patterns of asylum seeking and illegal entry in the EU and shows a starting ’deterrent effect’ for ’multiple applications’ – asylum claims where the same person has already made an application in the same country or in another Member State.

• La base européenne de données biométriques continue de garantir une gestion efficace du régime d’asile européen commun

  18 septembre 2007, par European Commission
  La Commission publie aujourd’hui le rapport annuel consacré aux activités d’EURODAC (l’outil biométrique utilisé à l’échelle de l’UE qui contribue à déterminer l’État membre responsable de l’examen d’une demande d’asile) en 2006. Ce rapport contient des informations essentielles sur les tendances en matière de demandes d’asile et d’entrées illégales dans l’UE et montre l’émergence d’un « effet dissuasif » sur les « demandes multiples », c’est-à-dire des demandes d’asile présentées par des personnes ayant déjà introduit une autre demande dans le même pays ou dans un autre État membre.

• Conference Proceedings: Democratic Control and Judicial Accountability in Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

  10 September 2007, by Challenge
  The event included presentations examining the way in which current institutional mechanisms, bodies and procedures applicable to this policy area have an impact on the changing relationship between freedom and security. At the heart of these discussions are the implications of new security policies for individual liberties. The event also served as a forum to present the Mid-Report of the CHALLENGE project gathering its main findings and policy recommendations of the first half of the project’s time span.

• Inter-operability and Accountability in the EU

  3 September 2007, by Lodge Juliet
  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.

• EURODAC evidence as such may not suffice in certain cases

  28 August 2007, by UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
  An Immigration Judge needs to be satisfied on the specific evidence in each case, including EURODAC evidence if available, whether the Appellant has made a previous claim. The evidence could comprise not just fingerprints but other data from the alleged previous application, for example photographs, age, name and claim details. General evidence might also be properly admitted about the reliability of the EURODAC system and how it operates.

• Le nouvel accord Europe/Etats-Unis sur les données des passagers aériens est au détriment des citoyens européens

  27 août 2007, par Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés
  Les négociations entre les Etats-Unis et l’Europe ont mis un terme à plusieurs années d’incertitude quant aux conditions dans lesquelles les autorités américaines accèdent aux données des passagers aériens européens (« données PNR »). L’accord, qui vient d’être conclu entre les Etats-Unis et l’UE, revient sur de nombreuses garanties défendues par les CNIL européennes.

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