<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; line-height: 35px; clear: both;"><span class="" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">This is ORG's Policy Update for the week beginning 05/06/2015</span></h1><div id="bodyContent" class="entry-content" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 35px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Consultations and Departments</span></h2><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Prime Minster David Cameron has announced the Ministers in his new Government. </p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">These include:</p><ul class="" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Theresa May is Home Secretary</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">John Hayes is Security Minister</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Mike Penning is Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice</li></ul><ul class="" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Michael Gove is Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Dominic Raab is Minister for Civil Liberties with responsibilities for human rights and civil liberties, freedom of information, data protection and data sharing </li></ul><ul class="" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">John Whittingdale is Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport </li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Ed Vaizey is Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with responsibility for digital industries</li></ul><ul class="" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Sajid Javid is Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills </li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Baroness Neville-Rolfe is Minister for Intellectual Property</li></ul><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 35px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Government_Bills" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.17em; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); outline: 0px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Government Bills</span></h2><h3 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 34px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Snoopers.27_Charter_to_come_back_under_Conservative_majority" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Snoopers' Charter to come back under Conservative majority</span></h3><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Theresa_May_MP" title="Theresa May MP" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Theresa May MP </a>, who will retain her position as Home Secretary in the new Cabinet, is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/09/theresa-may-revive-snoopers-charter-lib-dem-brakes-off-privacy-election" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">“determined to bring through”</a> the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Data_Bill" title="Communications Data Bill" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Communications Data Bill </a>which failed to gain the support of the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_Party" title="Liberal Democrat Party" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Liberal Democrat</a> MPs two years ago. This “Snoopers' Charter” renders mandatory the blanket retention of communication metadata for up to year by ISPs for law enforcement purposes.</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Scottish National Party</a> has already <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/SNP/11597756/SNP-planning-to-kill-off-Snoopers-Charter.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">announced its opposition</a> to this return as a SNP MP was quoted as saying that “there is a line beyond which it is unacceptable for civil liberties to be impinged”. Another difficulty the bill could face is complying with the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice" title="European Court of Justice" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">European Court of Justice</a> judgment last year criticizing blanket <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_data_retention" title="Communications data retention" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">communications data retention </a>as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/reports/data_retention_briefing.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">an infringement on privacy</a> as well as endangering other fundamental rights</p><h3 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 34px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Counter-extremism_bill_to_be_announced_in_Queen.27s_speech" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Counter-extremism bill to be announced in Queen's speech</span></h3><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Prime Minister <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/David_Cameron_MP" title="David Cameron MP" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">David Cameron MP </a>is to announce on Wednesday 20th that the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Counter-Extremism_Bill" title="Counter-Extremism Bill" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Counter-Extremism Bill </a>will be part of his Queen's speech. Home Secretary <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Theresa_May_MP" title="Theresa May MP" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Theresa May MP </a><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/counter-extremism-bill-national-security-council-meeting" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">stated that</a> “this government will challenge those who seek to spread hatred and intolerance”. Concretely, and although the precise details are yet to be announced, it <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/13/counter-terrorism-bill-extremism-disruption-orders-david-cameron" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">would include</a> control orders for individuals or organisations to "submit to the police in advance any proposed publication on the web and social media or in print."</p><h3 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 34px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Scrapping_the_Human_Rights_Act" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Scrapping the Human Rights Act</span></h3><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Michael_Gove_MP" title="Michael Gove MP" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Michael Gove MP </a>, newly appointed Justice Secretary, is expected to follow the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Conservative_Party" title="Conservative Party" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Conservative Party</a>'s <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/interactive/2014/oct/03/conservatives-human-rights-act-full-document" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">manifesto</a> and repeal the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Act_1998" title="Human Rights Act 1998" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Human Rights Act 1998</a>, which puts in British law in the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights" title="European Convention on Human Rights" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">European Convention on Human Rights</a> (ECHR). A <i class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">British Bill of Rights</i> is already announced to take its place, although while the content of this new bill has yet to be announced, it is bound to be similar to the ECHR, both because the Convention only upholds rights that the new bill couldn't do without and for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06577" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">because of European Union related obligations</a>. </p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The main effect of the bill would then be a diminishing of the power of the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">European Court of Human Rights</a>, a Court which has been of paramount importance for privacy and digital rights in the UK. For instance, in 2008, it <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.out-law.com/page-9228" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">ruled that</a> the UK wide and secretive surveillance laws violated the right to privacy. <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Open_Rights_Group" title="Open Rights Group" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Open Rights Group </a>, alongside other civil rights groups, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">is challenging government's mass surveillance</a> and complicity with the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">National Security Agency</a> spying in this Court.</p><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 35px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="International_Developments" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.17em; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); outline: 0px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">International Developments</span></h2><h3 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 34px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Snowden_denounces_new_Australia.27s_data_retention_law" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Snowden denounces new Australia's data retention law</span></h3><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Last week, <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Edward Snowden </a>addressed Australians during the Progress 2015 conference in Melbourne and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnet.com/au/news/edward-snowden-data-retention-laws-dangerous-and-radical/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">warned</a> them that their government is “watching everybody all the time.” He commented on the new data retention law that was passed in March, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/will-australias-metadata-retention-scheme-track-your-digital-browser-fingerprints-20150422-1mqprz.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">which gives yet more power</a> to authorities to track citizens online, by forcing ISPs to keep record of traffic for each IP adress.</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">According to the whistleblower, data retention has proved to be inefficient, and didn't help in the prevention of terrorist attacks such as the ones in Paris in January. "The reason these attacks happened is not because we didn't have enough surveillance, it's because we had too much", <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rt.com/news/257193-snowden-australia-surveillance-metadata/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">he argued</a>. </p><h3 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 34px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Wikileaks_publish_minutes_of_hearing_on_German_spying_for_the_NSA_scandal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Wikileaks publish minutes of hearing on German spying for the NSA scandal</span></h3><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">On Wednesday 13th, WikiLeaks <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/bnd-nsa/press/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">published</a> 1,380 pages of transcripts covering ten months of the Bundestag's inquiry on the Bundesnachrichtendiesnt (BND), the German foreign security agency, cooperation with the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">National Security Agency </a>. This follows last month's revelations that this cooperation, presented as a response to counter-terrorism needs, has had the BND spying on French and European Union officials and industries. The resulting outcry prompted the BND to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newseveryday.com/articles/15973/20150507/german-intelligence-agency-bnd-stops-cooperation-nsa-internet-spying-amid.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">announce</a> the end of its cooperation with the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/NSA" title="NSA" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">NSA </a>.</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Even though most of the hearings are public, those leaked documents needed to be made public, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/bnd-nsa/press/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">argues WikiLeaks</a>, for transcripts have been withheld and recording devices banned. They reveal that there are instances in which certain witnesses' statements in private sessions contradicts their statements in public sessions. Still, the minutes shouldn't bring any major surprises, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thelocal.de/20150512/wikileaks-publishes-minutes-of-nsa-inquiry" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">according to</a>a member of the digital rights group Netzpolitik.</p><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 35px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="European_Union" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.17em; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); outline: 0px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">European Union</span></h2><h3 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 34px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Google_transparency_report_on_the_first_year_of_the_right_to_be_forgotten" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Google transparency report on the first year of the right to be forgotten</span></h3><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice" title="European Court of Justice" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">European Court of Justice </a>'s <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=152065&doclang=en" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">judgment</a> launching the so-called <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/The_Right_To_Be_Forgotten" title="The Right To Be Forgotten" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">“right to be forgotten”</a> is now one year old, and <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Google" title="Google" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Google</a> just published a transparency report on its enforcement. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/14/you_have_the_right_to_be_forgotten_413_per_cent_of_the_time_says_google/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">It shows that</a> Google complies with 40% of requests for de-indexing content that is outdated or irrelevant. The company received more than 250,000 requests.</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Nevertheless, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/14/google-right-to-be-forgotten-academics-letter" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">an open letter</a> addressed to the search engine by more than eighty scholars and experts, Google is criticized for limiting its sharing of information to “anecdotes”, and for the absence of guidelines it follows to “strike the balance between individual privacy and freedom of expression interests”.</p><h3 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 34px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Digital_Single_Market_Strategy.27s_launching_and_Copyright_for_Creativity_meeting" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Digital Single Market Strategy's launching and Copyright for Creativity meeting</span></h3><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">On Wednesday 6th, the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">European Commission </a>introduced its Digital Single Market Strategy, which Jean-Claude Juncker presented as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/docs/pg_en.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">a keystone of his mandate</a>. Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the Commission for the Digital Single Market, wants to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/06/eu-unveils-plans-digital-single-market-online-firms" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">“move from 28 national markets to a single one” </a>. The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/access/index_en.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">modernising of copyright law</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/environment/index_en.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">new Data Protection regulation</a> are part of this global strategy. The whole process is expected to take <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://radiobruxelleslibera.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/what-the-digital-single-market-proposal-really-means-in-practice/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">several years</a>. </p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">On that occasion, <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Copyright_for_Creativity" title="Copyright for Creativity" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Copyright for Creativity</a> , a coalition that seeks to foster creativity and improve access to culture via a new system of copyright, and of which <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Open_Rights_Group" title="Open Rights Group" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Open Rights Group </a>is a member, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://copyright4creativity.eu/2015/05/12/copyright-and-dsm/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">held a debate on licensing in Brussels</a>. It was argued that Swedish S&D MEP Jytte Guteland that we need to facilitate cross-border access to content and to ensure with safeguards that the creators are not the weaker parties in copyrights' bargaining.</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Ms Maria Martin-Part, Head of the Copyright Unit in DG CONNECT at the <a href="https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">European Commission </a>, indicated that a single EU Copyright Title was not yet to be put in place. </p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Europeana, an online collection of digitized items from European museums, libraries and archived, made the case that licensing creates a “black hole” in post-1920 cultural history and that we need to update exceptions and limitations for it. </p><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 35px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="ORG_Media_coverage" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.17em; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); outline: 0px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">ORG Media coverage</span></h2><dl class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><dt class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">2015-05-09 – The Guardian - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/09/theresa-may-revive-snoopers-charter-lib-dem-brakes-off-privacy-election" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Theresa May to revive her 'snooper's charter' now Lib Dem brakes are off</a></dt><dd class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">”'Author'”: Damien Gayle</dd><dd class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">”'Summary'”: Jim Killock quoted on why he thinks the return of the snooper's charter is a bad thing</dd></dl><dl class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><dt class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">2015-05-08 – ITPro - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.itpro.co.uk/data-protection/24581/tories-suffer-privacy-backlash-over-resurrected-snoopers-charter#ixzz3aDm8fl7R" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Tories suffer privacy backlash over resurrected Snoopers' Charter</a></dt><dd class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">”'Author'”: Joe Curtis</dd><dd class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">”'Summary'”: Jim Killock quoted on the hope that Snoopers' charter won't pass the House of Commons</dd></dl><dl class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><dt class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">2015-05-06 – The Guardian (podcast) - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2015/may/06/tech-podcast-election" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 221, 221); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(191, 32, 38);">Tech Weekly podcast: election special</a></dt><dd class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">”'Author'”: Aleks Krotoski, Simon Barnard</dd><dd class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">”'Summary'”: Jim Killock joined the tech weekly podcast for the election special</dd></dl><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 35px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="mw-headline" id="ORG_contact_details" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.17em; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); outline: 0px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, LatoRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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