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Personal data protection

Personal data protection

Protection of personal data is in focus following revelations by whistle-blower Edward Snowden and the ensuing NSA...

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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was negotiated in almost complete secrecy since 2007 by a group of states...

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The NSA surveillance programme and its impact on EU citizens' fundamental rights

Since June 2013, revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden have brought to light mass surveillance programmes by US and EU...

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Transfer of Financial Messaging Data to the US (SWIFT)

Transfer of Financial Messaging Data to the US (SWIFT)

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001, the US began to submit informal requests for and...

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Daniel Tero

A European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy

Whereas legislation on the protection of property rights is mostly a European competence, the provision of that protection...

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Agreement between the EU and the United States on the processing and transfer of passenger name records

Agreement between the EU and the United States on the processing and transfer of passenger name records

Over the past decade the USA has profiled all passengers entering their country, checking whether they might potentially be...

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