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Raegan MacDonald

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European privacy reform is broken badly

4 Mar 2015

New leaked documents show that European Union Member States, led by Germany, are systematically working to destroy the fabric of European privacy legislation.

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European privacy reform is broken badly
4 Mar 2015
European privacy reform is broken badly
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Access sends open letter to Commissioner Malmström seeking clarifications on claims from yesterday’s hearing

30 Sep 2014

In an open letter sent today to Commissioner Malmström, Access requests the Commissioner-designate for Trade for immediate feedback on the aspersions she placed on the validity of the acquired document during yesterday’s hearing in the European Parliament.

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Access sends open letter to Commissioner Malmström seeking clarifications on claims from yesterday’s hearing
30 Sep 2014
Access sends open letter to Commissioner Malmström seeking clarifications on claims from yesterday’s hearing
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Document shows Commissioner Malmström secretly working with the U.S. to undermine data protection regulations

28 Sep 2014

The former Home Affairs Commissioner has been systematically undermining the work of her own commission, and would be unfit to defend EU citizens’ interests as Trade Commissioner.

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Document shows Commissioner Malmström secretly working with the U.S. to undermine data protection regulations
28 Sep 2014
Document shows Commissioner Malmström secretly working with the U.S. to undermine data protection regulations

Blanket data retention: Law enforcement wants it, but they don’t need it

15 Sep 2014

On April 8, 2014, Europe’s highest court, the ECJ, released a long-awaited decision on the controversial Data Retention Directive, confirming what we all knew: the blanket surveillance mandated by the Data Retention Directive is neither necessary nor proportionate.

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Blanket data retention: Law enforcement wants it, but they don’t need it
15 Sep 2014
Blanket data retention: Law enforcement wants it, but they don’t need it

Civil Society Groups Set the Record Straight on “Right to be Forgotten”

10 Sep 2014

On September 9, Access, together with a coalition of 10 European and international digital rights groups submitted a letter to the Google Advisory Council to set the record straight about the so-called “right to be forgotten” and to address misrepresentations of a recent European Court of Justice ruling.

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Civil Society Groups Set the Record Straight on “Right to be Forgotten”
10 Sep 2014
Civil Society Groups Set the Record Straight on “Right to be Forgotten”
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EU Commission takes note of NGO letter highlighting DRIP’s violations of EU law

22 Aug 2014

This month, the European Commission responded to a letter sent on behalf of 21 digital rights organisations – including Access, Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), EDRi, Initiative für Netzfreiheit, AKVorrat, and EFF – outlining several violations of E.U. law in the passage of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIP) in the United Kingdom.

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EU Commission takes note of NGO letter highlighting DRIP’s violations of EU law
22 Aug 2014
EU Commission takes note of NGO letter highlighting DRIP’s violations of EU law
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Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality: Wikimedia turns its back on the open internet

8 Aug 2014

Wikipedia’s vision is “a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.” It’s a value that we at Access share. So we were shocked last week when the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports and hosts Wikipedia, turned its back on the greatest driver of open access to information the world has ever known, the open internet.

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Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality: Wikimedia turns its back on the open internet
8 Aug 2014
Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality: Wikimedia turns its back on the open internet
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Civil society groups alert European Commission to UK’s breach of EU Law

22 Jul 2014

Today Access, together with 20 digital and civil rights organisations, sent the following letter (linked here and below) to E.U. Commissioners Michel Barnier and Cecilia Malmström to bring their attention to an infringement of E.U. law by the United Kingdom through the adoption of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (“DRIP”).

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Civil society groups alert European Commission to UK’s breach of EU Law
22 Jul 2014
Civil society groups alert European Commission to UK’s breach of EU Law
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Three things you should know about the Google Spain case

10 Jul 2014

On May 13th, the European Court of Justice ruled on the case between the Spanish citizen, Mario Costeja González and Google Spain, regarding the Spanish Data Protection Authority requests for the search engine to withdraw personal data relating to Mr Costeja González from its index and to prevent access to the data in the future.

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Three things you should know about the Google Spain case
10 Jul 2014
Three things you should know about the Google Spain case

Mitigating the CJEU’s dangerous precedent

14 May 2014

Yesterday, in a sweeping and dangerous judgement the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Google should de-index a lawfully published newspaper article about a Spanish citizen. Access believes the Court erred in increasing liability for intermediaries online, unnecessarily and wrongly pitting privacy against access to information, with an unfavorable result.

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Mitigating the CJEU’s dangerous precedent
14 May 2014
Mitigating the CJEU’s dangerous precedent