The Data Retention Directive (Directive 2006/24/EC), later declared invalid by the European Court of Justice, was at first passed on 15 March 2006 and...
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Data retention defines the policies of persistent data and records management for meeting legal and business data archival requirements. Although sometimes...
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The Data Protection Directive, officially Directive 95/46/EC, enacted in October 1995, was a European Union directive which regulated the processing of...
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History of mass surveillance in the United Kingdom (section European Union Data Retention Directive (2007–14))
twelve months under the European Union's Data Retention Directive. Though all telecoms firms already keep data for a period, the regulations are designed...
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Communications Directive 2002/58/EC on Privacy and Electronic Communications, otherwise known as ePrivacy Directive (ePD), is an EU directive on data protection...
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DRD may refer to: Data Retention Directive, a European Union directive on storing telephony communications Decision Requirements Diagrams, a part of the...
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Directive, 95/46/EC The Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, 2002/58/EC (the E-Privacy Directive) The Data Retention Directive, 2006/24/EC, Article...
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A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve...
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The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility...
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Communications (2002/58/EC 12 July 2002) on EUR-Lex Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC 15 March 2006) Directive 2009/136/EC (25 November 2009) on EUR-Lex, was...
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National Security Agency (NSA) in a massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications. On July 20, 2006, a federal judge denied...
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preserve traffic and location data for one year, as defined by the EU Data Retention Directive. They may only provide this data to surveillance agencies or...
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Gather Intelligence on Ban Ki-Moon – Secret Directives Sent to More than 30 US Embassies – Call for DNA Data, Computer Passwords and Terrorist Links". The...
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messages). It was brought into effect after the European Union's Data Retention Directive was declared invalid. The Telecommunications Act 1984 has also...
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By 2003, this function had been fully transferred to Pine Gap. Location data provided by Pine Gap was used by the US to kill al-Qaeda and the Taliban...
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The main types of acts under this heading are EU treaties (sector 1), directives, regulations, decisions as well as consolidated legislation (sector 0)...
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Digital Services Act (redirect from Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a single market for digital services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC)
transparent advertising and disinformation. It updates the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000 in EU law, and was proposed alongside the Digital Markets Act (DMA)...
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Court of Human Rights ruled that the UK's mass data interception and retention programmes, including Tempora, "was unlawful and incompatible with the...
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effective. However, the expansion of the doctrine of direct effect to include directives and other measures served to create a distinction between direct applicability...
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ordinary legislative procedure is the main legislative procedure by which directives and regulations are adopted. It was formerly known as the codecision procedure...
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invalid the EU Data Retention Directive. The Court said it violates two basic rights – respect for private life and protection of personal data. Undertaken...
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Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2014 (2014/65/EU, commonly known as MiFID 2), is a directive of the European Union (EU). Together with Regulation...
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interception and content inspection of telephone calls, fax, e-mail and other data traffic globally through the interception of communication bearers including...
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Integrity and Compliance, Patrick W. Kelley. In September 2000, the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU) in Quantico, Virginia, launched a project...
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Data Center Bad Aibling Station Dagger Complex GCHQ Bude Laws Five Eyes UKUSA Agreement Lustre U.S. USA Freedom Act FISA amendments EU Data Retention...
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Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament...
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has a Wi-Fi host, the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000 recital 11 states email services, search engines, data storage, and streaming, are information...
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most important of which are regulations, and in certain circumstances to directives. The ECJ first articulated the doctrine of direct effect in the case of...
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said that the use of the argument is "all-too-common". Bruce Schneier, a data security expert and cryptographer, described it as the "most common retort...
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Preparations Directive Data Retention Directive Database Directive Database right Directive 2000/43/EC on Anti-discrimination Directive establishing a...
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