Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

Dutch chapter of the Liberties Rule of Law Report 2025 ignores the downsides of AML/CFT law

Civil Liberties Union for Europe published the Rule of Law Report 2025: the announcement, the report. The report was compiled by 43 rights groups from 21 EU countries and found that the rule of law issues and democratic decline documented … Lees verder

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Denmark violates fundamental rights | Ćapeta opinion

Recently the opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta (Case C‑417/23, ECLI:EU:C:2025:98) for the European Court of Justice was published. The conclusion of Ćapeta was: 172. In the light of the foregoing, I propose that the Court of Justice answer the questions … Lees verder

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Plixavra Vogiatzoglou on the European surveillance society in the making

Today Plixavra Vogiatzoglou spoke at UCL about her book Mass Data Surveillance and Predictive Policing (a video to be expected). I watched the session online and saw how she summarised the contents of her book. The subject of her book … Lees verder

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The UK Online Safety Act causes closure of legitimate small websites

According to the Open Rights Group the UK ‘Online Safety Act’ (OSA) harms freedom of speech in the UK. Read their article Save our Sites: Deadline 17 March, that starts with: Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online … Lees verder

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Falchetta: Why the UN Should Stop Supporting the Surveillance of Travellers in the Name of Countering Terrorism

Tomaso Falchetta (Privacy International) published the article Travellers’ Surveillance: Why the UN Should Stop Supporting the Surveillance of Travellers in the Name of Countering Terrorism in Opinio Juris. He writes that the collection of air travellers’ data (in the form … Lees verder

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The tech optimism of PROBabLE Futures

‘PROBabLE Futures’ according to this announcement is an artificial intelligence project of several universities that shows involvement by academics and the compliance industry. The announcement shows that the partners have high confidence in artificial intelligence as a tool to prevent … Lees verder

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The EBA consults on new rules related to the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism package

On 6 March the European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a public consultation on four draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that will be part of the EBA’s response to the European Commission’s Call for Advice. ‘Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS)’ are a … Lees verder

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Swedbank refuses transparency in automatic interest calculation | noyb

Privacy organisation noyb filed a complaint with the Swedish Data Protection Authority regarding practices of a Swedish bank, read their article. The topic of the complaint is the automatic calculation of interest.

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Speech Ruha Benjamin on and biased bots, altruistic algorithms

Ruha Benjamin on 21 March (the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) is giving a lecture for the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), read the announcement. According to the announcement Ruhin takes the listeners into the … Lees verder

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Lighthouse Reports on Norway | Investigating bias in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system

According to Lighthouse Reports in Norway there is bias in the Norwegian criminal justice system, from the article Inequality Before the Law. Investigating bias in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system: Defendants with lower incomes receive significantly longer sentences … Lees verder

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