As negotiations progress over the EU-US free-trade agreement TTIP, it is natural that somebody will propose addressing privacy differences through trade. But several features of free trade agreements make negotiating data protection in the trade regime a very bad idea for the EU.
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Forget, erase and delist, but don’t forget the broader issue
In the past 12 months privacy and data protection took a much more prominent role in internet policy discussions. One of the key examples is the so-called Google Spain case . Researcher Jef Ausloos revisits the case at the European privacy conference CPDP .
Addressing the right to privacy in 2015
Don’t let the legal and legitimate pursuit of privacy be marginalised or criminalised, argues Becky Kazansky of the Tactical Technology Collective.
Happy hacking at the Chaos Communication Congress
The by-now-classic-hacker-event CCC is on and one of the participants says: "ethics and hacking should be made part of the educational curricula".
On the paradox of parliamentary control over services operating secretly
A better parliamentary control of intelligence services should be top priority in democratic states, pleads Lena Ulbricht.
The European Data Governance Forum taking place this week galvanised two core ethical principles, reports Francesca Musiani.
Why we need to rebuild the legitimacy of our foreign intelligence services
Despite all claims that German intelligence agencies operate on constitutional grounds, government representatives fail on transparency. We need to seriously care, argues Marcel Dickow.
The new Facebook data policy: like or dislike?
You are unclear about what Facebook will be doing with your data in the new year? Read Anne Helmond's quick analysis of Facebook's new terms and policies in effect 1 January 2015.
Digital assets post-mortem
The way we handle digital assets post-mortem is a young field of inquiry and it is researcher Edina Harbinja's sandbox. Journalist Philippa Warr takes a look at the issues.
The representatives of internet firms at this year's Internet Governance Forum referred to transparency, human rights and privacy. But when searching for those guilty of surveillance, they exclusively pointed to governments and not to their own policies.