Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

The potential of tax microdata for tax policy

Governments are immensely excited about the technical possibilities available to track all citizens every second of every day. Sometimes surveillance is outsourced to ad companies such as Meta and Google. But governments themselves also have a good information position, for … Lees verder

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EDPB criticises ‘Going Dark’ proposals | digital communication secrecy principle

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on 4 November published a statement [*] on recommendations by a European High-Level Group that undermine the digital communications secrecy principle. EDPB summarizes the statement as follows: The statement on the recommendations of the … Lees verder

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AML Package: “the reform was of a massive size, and there are important novelties” | the European anti-money laundering lawyers’ paradise

If you ask Dutch bankers or anti-money laundering university professors whether much will change because of the AML Package, the answer you will get is that little will change and that it is only codification/harmonisation of already known rules. Anyone … Lees verder

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Enhancing Fundamental Rights Protection. Proposals for Ex Ante Review of EU Legislation (PEARL)

On Verfassungsblog the article Enhancing Fundamental Rights Protection was published. Gambardella, Ilaria, Ghysels, Tatiana, Kappé, Marleen, Lemmer, Sophie-Charlotte, Lorans, Yann, Lympikis, Alexandros; Słowik, Alicja: Enhancing Fundamental Rights Protection: Proposals for Ex Ante Review of EU Legislation (PEARL), VerfBlog, 2024/11/04, https://verfassungsblog.de/enhancing-fundamental-rights-protection/, … Lees verder

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Real-time data reporting for VAT-purposes

In the ‘VAT in the digital age package‘ that the Council of the EU has reached agreement on (announcement) real-time data reporting is an important element: With new rules on electronic invoices and real-time data reporting, as well as business … Lees verder

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Microdata for European statistics

The Council of the EU on 5 November announced it has adopted changes to the EU legal framework on the development, production and dissemination of European statistics: The revised regulation lays the foundations to make European statistics fit for the … Lees verder

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The EBA’s new datasets

In the new Working Progamme 2025 (announcement, programme), the European Banking Authority (EBA) has high expectations of the enhanced data infrastructure and the data portal it is creating. For instance on page 11 of the programme, that speaks of ‘new … Lees verder

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Oerlemans and Langenhuijzen’s article on commercially avalable information and OSINT

The article “Balancing National Security and Privacy: Examining the Use of Commercially Available Information in OSINT Practices”, written by Jan-Jaap Oerlemans and Sander Langenhuijzen recently [*] was made available in open access in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence … Lees verder

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European financial authorities make their rich collection of personal data on European citizens available to financial institutions in a synthesized form

The Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets (DG FISMA) of the European Commission (EC) announced: Synthetic data enables national authorities to make their financial data publicly available. These data are shared through the EU Data Hub, part … Lees verder

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Statewatch: European definition of “potential terrorists” opens door to broad information-sharing

Statewatch points this out in this article, the introduction: EU member states can now collect and share information on “potential terrorists”. This category is based on a new informal definition that was agreed with no democratic scrutiny. While claiming to … Lees verder

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