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As a result of the agreement which took place some months ago, (see IRIS 1997-9: 12) on 15 December 1997, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have implemented a Directive on the processing of data of a personal nature and the protection of privacy over the digital and mobile telecommunication networks, complementing Directive 95/46/EC on data protection (Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data). The Directive...

In a resolution of 8 July 1997, the National Commission for Data Protection (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés - CNIL) set out the guarantees that publishers of on-line directories should provide for subscribers. The formalities to be fulfilled before setting up the automated processing of nominative information are contained in the provisions of the law of 6 January 1978, relating to data processing, data files and to individual rights. The law also covers processing of data for producing lists of users or subscribers to network and telecommunications services. Any such...

The High Court decided on 25 November that it was neither unlawful nor irrational for the owner of a closed-circuit television system (in this case a local authority) to release footage to the media for the purpose of showing how succesful the system was in the prevention and detection of crime. However, the judge recognised that there might be "undesirable invasions of a person's privacy." In this case, a man's face was identified by family and friends as it was inadequately masked. The judge proposed that, until the Europena Convention on Human Rights had been fully incorpoarted into law, reliance...

In the fight against organised crime, two new methods of investigation have been incorporated into the Code of Criminal Procedure: "optical and acoustic surveillance of persons with the help of technical devices" (popularly known as the bugging offensive) and "computerised data-scanning". Alongside the reform of criminal procedure, a new Section 7c ("Protection against prohibited publication") has been inserted in the Media Act. Under the new compensation rule, persons whose legitimate interests have been harmed are in principle entitled to claim compensation from media operators or publishers...

The 5th European Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy held in Thessaloniki on 11 and 12 December last year, attended by the Ministers from Council of Europe member States which are responsible for national media policies, adopted two resolutions concerning the field of the new technologies. The first Resolution covers "the impact of new communications technologies on human rights and democratic values". It introduces the principle of "universal community service", according to which the States undertake to create a framework for access by the public to networks and new communications services...