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Complaint against use of Cloudflare by the EU Council

E-Mail dated 27/06/2018 to the Council’s data protection unit: Dear Sir/Madam, the Council has lately begun to use Cloudflare. Being a TOR user, browsing to the Council’s website (https://www.consilium.europa.eu/) results in a captcha request by Cloudflare, embedding Google.com (e.g. when I use exit node 185.220.102.6). By using Cloudflare the Council is violating the GDPR directive […]

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IP addresses: Industry lawyers trying to undermine Internet privacy

In Breyer vs. Germany (Case C‑582/14) the European Court of Justice concluded that the IP address used when browsing the Internet come under the protection of the data protection directive if there are legal means for operators of online services to have offenders prosecuted using their IP address. In consequence Internet content providers such as […]

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Top EU Court: IP adresses are personal data

The EU’s Court of Justice (ECJ) today looked into whether website operators such as Google or Facebook may record which information Internet users read, post or searched on the web – or whether citizens have a right to use the Internet anonymously. The ruling concerns the case of German pirate party politician and privacy activist […]

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Top EU Court: IP adresses are personal data

The EU’s Court of Justice (ECJ) today looked into whether website operators such as Google or Facebook may record which information Internet users read, post or searched on the web – or whether citizens have a right to use the Internet anonymously. The ruling concerns the case of German pirate party politician and privacy activist […]

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Top German Court on Internet tracking: IP addresses are personal data

This week the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) looked into whether website operators such as Google or Facebook may record which information Internet users read, post or searched on the web – or whether citizens have a right to use the Internet anonymously. The ruling concerns the case of German pirate party politician and privacy […]

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Advocate General: IP adresses are personal data

The EU’s top lawyer today answered a question that seems to be as old as the Internet. In his opinion, IP addresses are personal data and may be collected only where allowed by data protection law. The opinion concerns the case of German pirate party politician and privacy activist Patrick Breyer who is suing the […]

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Advocate General to deliver opinion on right to surf the Internet anonymously

Is there a right to surf the Internet anonymously? Europe’s top court is to rule on whether website operators such as Google or Facebook may record which information Internet users read, post or search on the web — or whether citizens have a right to use the Internet anonymously. Tomorrow the EU Court of Justice […]

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EU Court hearing on right to surf the Internet anonymously

Is there a right to surf the Internet anonymously? Europe’s top court is to rule on whether website operators such as Google or Facebook may record which information Internet users read, post or search on the web — or whether citizens have a right to use the Internet anonymously. Thursday the EU Court of Justice […]

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Europe’s top court to rule on whether IP addresses are personal data

Europe’s top court is set to answer a question that seems to be as old as the Internet: Are IP addresses personal data? Germany’s Federal Court of Justice was scheduled to rule on this Tuesday, but instead decided to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The answer […]

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European Court of Human Rights to examine complaint against ban on anonymous prepaid mobile phone cards [updated 27/1/2020]

A member of the Schleswig-Holstein parliament and a civil liberties activist have filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against a German law which makes identification compulsory when buying prepaid mobile phone SIM cards. Laws to that effect exist in 9 of the 27 EU Member States (Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, […]

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