internet

October 20, 2016

Dynamic IP address is personal data, rules CJEU

Yesterday (October 19, 2016) the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in case Patrick Breyer v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, in which court recognizes that dynamic IP addresses registered by websites are personal data. CJEU followed the Opinion of the Advocate General delivered earlier this year. In its decision CJEU concluded that […]

October 7, 2016

CISPE publishes Code of Conduct for Cloud Infrastructures Services

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Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (“CISPE”) – a relatively new coalition of more than 20 cloud infrastructure providers operating in Europe – has recently published its first Code of Conduct for Cloud Infrastructures Services. The CISPE Code of Conduct: Gives a framework to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation Excludes the reuse of […]

October 6, 2016

World’s biggest Internet hub sues German government over surveillance

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On September 9, 2016, the operator of the world’s largest Internet hub, De-Cix, filed lawsuit against the German government to stop mass surveillance by the German intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). De-CIX is challenging the legality of orders from the BND to implement monitoring of communications flowing through its Frankfurt Internet exchange point. De-CIX insists that […]

September 21, 2016

Dutch police seize VPN provider’s servers without any explanation

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Dutch police have seized two servers belonging to Switzerland-based VPN provider Perfect Privacy. The VPN provider claims that Dutch police haven’t informed or contacted them about the reason servers were seized and about seizure they were informed by their hosting provider. Despite the seizure of servers, Perfect Privacy promises that no user data was compromised. Full story

September 13, 2016

EU urged to rethink planned net neutrality guidance

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In April EU net neutrality laws came into force, requiring internet service providers to “treat all traffic equally”. Earlier this summer the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) published draft new guidelines setting out how EU net neutrality rules should be implemented by EU national regulators. However, draft is criticized by think tanks […]

September 8, 2016

How Private Investigators Use the Internet to Track You?

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Internet contains unimaginable amounts of data. So how hard it would be to track down you? And how to find what data is there about you on the internet? Full article

September 5, 2016

Microsoft expands right-to-be-forgotten filtering for Bing in Europe

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Recently Microsoft has revealed that it is expanding the coverage of “right to be forgotten” mechanism in Europe. Microsoft will now use location signals such as IP addresses to delist URLs on all versions of its search engine Bing. If someone in France successfully requests delisting of a URL on Bing, in addition to delisting […]

May 18, 2016

UNCTAD report on data flows and international trade

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Recently United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD ) published a report on privacy and personal data protection law, trans-border data flow and their implications on international trade and development. The in-depth and substantive report also places a focus on developing nations. This study is a timely contribution to our understanding of how data protection […]

May 16, 2016

Dynamic IP addresses as personal data

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Question about IP addresses as personal data is bit tricky. IP address (short for Internet Protocol address) is a unique numerical label assigned to an information technology device (e.g., a computer or smartphone) participating in a network using the Internet Protocol system to identify itself and communicate with other devices. IP addresses can be static or […]

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