Tag Archives: Justice and Home Affairs,Privacy / data protection

Parliament calls for a suspension of the EU-US TFTP Agreement

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

Today the European Parliament adopted a resolution which clearly asks the Commission to temporarily suspend the EU-US TFTP agreement after leaked papers revealed that the US National Security Agency illegally accessed the Swift database. …

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EU-US TFTP – temporary suspension

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

Today the European Parliament adopted a resolution which clearly asks the Commission to temporarily suspend the EU-US TFTP agreement after leaked papers revealed that the US National Security Agency illegally accessed the Swift database. …

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Protecting data privacy in the internet age

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

This evening, the European Parliament’s Civil liberties Committee (LIBE) voted on two new pieces of legislation on data protection, proposed by the Commission in January 2012. Specifically a Data Protection Regulation and a Directive on d…

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NSA tapping into SWIFT system: no reason to delay suspension

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

Today Sophie in’t Veld (D66, Netherlands) on behalf of the ALDE group requested the European Parliament to add to this week’s plenary agenda a statement by the Commission on the latest news reports that the US National Security Agency has…

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Immediate suspension of EU-US TFTP agreement necessary following latest US spying revelations

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

Immediate suspension of EU-US TFTP agreement necessary following latest US spying revelations
Following the latest news reports today that the US National Security Agency has been secretly tapping into personal financial data from the SWIFT database (a global financial interchange service), Sophie In’t Veld (D66, Netherlands) ALDE vice-president on Parliament’s Civil Liberties committee and a campaigner for personal data privacy is now calling on commissioner Malmström to suspend the EU-US agreement which regulates the exchange of data from the company as part of the US’ Terrorist Financial Tracking Programme.

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Threats to press freedom are not acceptable in EU

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

Sophie In’t Veld (D66, Netherlands), Vice-President of Parliament’s Justice, Home Affairs and Civil Liberties Committee and specialist on data privacy issues has responded to recent revelations that The Guardian newspaper was ordered by t…

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Parliament must hold inquiry into US spying scandal

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

In the wake of a series of revelations about US NSA secret surveillance of telecommunications data, the latest reports that the US has been tapping into telephone calls and emails from EU offices in New York, Washington and Brussels serio…

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Prism Scandal: ALDE obtains a debate with Commission

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

Following the eruption of the Prism scandal in the US that, as also suggested by the latest declarations of President Obama, may affect all EU citizens’ data protection, today the ALDE President Guy Verhofstadt obtained the agreement of P…

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No EU PNR before Data Protection Rules are firmly in place

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

The majority of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee rejected today the draft Directive on the use of airline Passenger Name Record data (PNR) within the EU, proposed by the Commission in February 2011. According to the AL…

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Improved Schengen Information system finally fully operative

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Press releases from ALDE

The European Commission announced that today the new generation of the Schengen Information System (SIS II) became fully operational.

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