Tag: CLOUD Act
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What’s the problem with the EU regulation on the release of electronic evidence?
The EU Parliament has accommodated the member states on crucial points, but now demands special attention to fundamental rights. The controversial question is how a state in which a company is based can object to an order. The French EU…
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Budapest Convention: Council of Europe decides to facilitate the exchange of electronic evidence
In future, investigating authorities and public prosecutors’ offices will be able to force internet providers in a third country to hand over data on their users without a court order there. Even more far-reaching surveillance measures on “e-evidence” are to…
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“Electronic Evidence”: No simplification for digital investigations yet
No less than three international organisations are working on different agreements to ease access to servers abroad for police and judiciary. In the Council of Europe, the EU Commission might pre-empt the United Nations. Problems arise with demands from the…
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Europol Study: Disclosure of electronic evidence often fails due to incompetence of authorities
The planned EU e-Evidence regulation is intended to force Internet service providers to cooperate more with police and judicial authorities. However, a survey shows that the companies already comply with their requests voluntarily. But they are often incorrect and thus…
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EU surveillance state
The EU is increasing the surveillance in its Member States. US authorities could soon also wiretap legally in Europe The new European Parliament is to be constituted in September, after which the EU Commission will be re-elected. The governments of…
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US authorities want to legally intercept telecommunications in Europe
The FBI could soon demand sensitive communication data from European Internet service providers. It would also be possible to have the data retrieved in real time. With this, the European Union wants to make the Trump administration weigh the possibility…