Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

FATF consultation on beneficial ownership legislation (‘Recommendation 24’) | AML, CFT

One of the sources of the unworkable beneficial ownership bureaucracy that is harming people in Europe, is FATF, that is drafting legislation without the scrutiny of experts or parliaments. FATF intends to change its legislation in regard of beneficial ownership … Lees verder →

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European Parliament: MEPs want to extend the EU sanctions regime to cover corruption

The Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a resolution calling for corruption to be included as a punishable offense, read the press release.

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“On the Government of the Faceless and the Deathless” | our digital future

In Critical Legal Thinking an article by Giorgio Agamben on the future of mankind was published, On the Government of the Faceless and the Deathless. Amongst other things he writes: The planetary project that governments try to impose is, therefore, … Lees verder →

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AML-legislation inevitably leads to exclusion if fundamental rights are not taken seriously | RUSI event on inclusion

One of the many fundamental flaws in the anti-money laundering (‘AML’) concepts of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is that their recommendations regarding risk profiling and monitoring transactions of customers lead to exclusion of people, organisations and regions (e.g. … Lees verder →

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Transparency for institutions, privacy for the people

GDPR not only is about adtech companies like Facebook en Google or IT-companies like Microsoft and Apple. Governments incline to disregard the data protection principles, as is noted in an article on the site of EDRi: “Transparency for institutions, privacy … Lees verder →

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AML and right to be forgotten | DPA Hessen

The decision of the Data Protection Commissioner of Hessen (Germany), published on the EDPB site shows that record keeping for AML/CFT-purposes is allowed under GDPR. The financial services provider, IQ Option Europe ltd (‘the Company’), has a legal basis for … Lees verder →

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Digital technologies as a means of repression and social control | EPRS report

A subcommittee (DROI) of the European Parliament asked Dorota Głowacka, Richard Youngs, Adela Pintea and Ewelina Wołosik to write the report ‘Digital technologies as a means of repression and social control‘. Hopefully Europe will apply the  human rights principles of … Lees verder →

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Questions for EDPB in regard of FATCA | GDPR, Schrems II

In a twitter message of 28 May the member of the European Parliament Sophie in ’t Veld wrote: Time for action to protect Accidental Americans against ridiculous extraterritorial US tax is LONG overdue‼️ Which action will data protection supervisors in … Lees verder →

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Big Brother judgment ECHR

On 25 May the European Court of Human Rights delivered important judgments on electronic mass surveillance (or bulk interception): Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom, nos. 58170/13 etc (judgment). Centrum för rättvisa v. Sweden, no. 35252/08 (judgment). … Lees verder →

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EDPB letter to the European Commission on the protection of personal data in the AML-CFT legislative proposals

On 19 May EDPB published a letter to the European Commission on the protection of personal data in the AML-CFT legislative proposals. More information (EDPB): page, letter (pdf), meeting page. Earlier EDPB-publication on AML-CFT: Statement on the protection of personal … Lees verder →

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