❗Beware: Not a single line of this document can be considered a basis for any discussion. This is because the group is non-transparent, undemocratic, politically biased and works with the Going Dark myth, which assumes that law enforcement and security can only be achieved through more surveillance.
🇬🇧 We #Pirates were able to see the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan for the new EU Commission and can provide you with insights 🕵️.
After the #European elections, among other things, indiscriminate #dataretention is to be reintroduced across the EU and manufacturers are to be forced to make digital devices such as smartphones or cars generally accessible for the police.
🇩🇪 75 Jahre #Grundgesetz – und #CDU-Frau von der Leyen höhlt es über die EU Schritt für Schritt aus. #Zensursula’s EU-Kommission hat in den letzten fünf Jahren auf den Weg gebracht:
🇬🇧 Ursula von der Leyen has been continuously eroding our fundamental rights. In the past five years, her EU Commission proposed:
❌the end of private messaging and secure encryption #ChatControl
❌introducing unique citizen identifiers #eID
❌a working group to resurrect indiscriminate #DataRetention#EUGoingDark
❌essentially unchanged online tracking & micro-targeting practices #DSA#politicalAds
❌legalising #Europol's unlawful bulk data collection practices
❌ultra-fast cross-border online content removals without court orders #TERREG
❌allowing for #biometricMassSurveillance in the #AIAct
❌granting industry access to our #healthdata without our consent #EHDS
Von der Leyen’s Europe needs digital freedom fighters! #Pirates
🇬🇧🙌 Fighting #masssurveillance pays off: German government will not reintroduce #dataretention but agrees to introduce #quickfreeze / data preservation powers instead.
A huge success and a clear signal to the entire #EU - drop #EUGoingDark now!
🇩🇪Heute vor 10 Jahren hat ein EuGH-Grundsatzurteil die EU-Richtlinie zur wahllosen #Vorratsdatenspeicherung aller unserer Verbindungen, Bewegungen und auch IP-Adressen als Verletzung unseres Grundrechts auf Privatsphäre gekippt - grandios!
"The Court considered that such [an indiscriminate data] retention did not remain within the bounds of what was necessary in a democratic society. Consequently, the retention of, access to and processing of the data in the
context of the criminal proceedings against the applicant had breached his #privacy rights."
The Danish government is expanding its "targeted" #dataretention scheme [1]. Currently, it covers 67% of the population (based on residence in the targeted geographical areas). With the new additional targeting criteria, the coverage will be 74% of the population (according to this answer to a parliamentary question https://www.ft.dk/samling/20231/almdel/reu/spm/590/svar/2022917/2825586/index.htm).
#EU#France#HADOPI#Copyright#Filesharing#Privacy#DataProtection#DataRetention: "This post will argue that the HADOPI system is contrary to the Court’s extensive data retention case law on two counts. First, the HADOPI system operates by relying on automated access to traffic data, which under the Court’s current case law (discussed further below) can only be retained for the purpose of combatting serious crime. Even the AG agrees that copyright infringements clearly cannot be classified as a serious crime (para. 38 of the Opinion). Secondly, the massive access to this traffic data takes place without prior authorisation from a national court or an independent administrative authority.
In his two Opinions, AG Szpunar presents a very different analysis of the case. He concludes that the HADOPI is compatible with EU law. In doing so, he proposes a revision – in his words, a “development” (para. 30 of the second Opinion) – of the Court’s case law on data retention in the online sphere, which will have wide-ranging consequences for the privacy and data protection of everyone using the internet."
🇬🇧 I received fully ■■■■■■ redacted participant lists of the EU’s #GoingDark anti-encryption group that is also forging plans for resurrecting #DataRetention.