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		<title>WikiLeaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna December 12, 2010 My grandfather, who lived to the age of 93, had a scotch every day of the last seventy years of his life. He only allowed himself a second one on saturday nights -he went to dinner out with my grandmother each and every saturday for 50+ years-, and when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans, José &amp; João&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 08:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna May 27, 2010 And so was I reading my twitter feed early this morning when I saw a link to an interesting article at the WSJ. The title was: Who is Europe&#8217;s Biggest Loser? The header also sported a catchy line: &#8220;And the Oscar for the Hardest Hit From the Greek Bailout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malentendidos, desinformaciones y realidades acerca de la disposición final primera del Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía Sostenible</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna 10 de diciembre, 2009 El Consejo de Ministros aprobó el pasado 27 de noviembre el Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía Sostenible. El anteproyecto es una ley cajón de sastre del estilo al que se preparó en su momento en torno al conocido de todos ‘plan nacional de substitución de aceras en buen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo! takes the lead in EU data protection compliance</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2008/12/17/yahoo-takes-the-lead-in-eu-data-protection-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna December 17, 2008 The on-line privacy arena is getting hotter by the minute&#8230; Yahoo! announced today a new global data retention policy which highlight consists in that: (&#8230;) &#8220;Yahoo! will anonymize user log data within 90 days with limited exceptions for fraud, security and legal obligations. Yahoo! will also expand the policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best privacy policy. Ever.</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2008/12/08/best-privacy-policy-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna December 8, 2008 &#8220;Privacy is a hot topic these days, and we want you to feel totally comfortable using our service, so our privacy policy is very simple: when you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praise for EuroPriSe</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2008/09/23/praise-for-europrise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna September 23, 2008 The European Privacy Seal (EuroPrise), project is an interesting initiative lead by the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz, ULD). This body is the local data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost federal state of Germany. Funded under the European Commission&#8217;s eTen Programme, it currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding privacy in Europe, playing well with others</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2008/05/19/understanding-privacy-in-europe-playing-well-with-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 17:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna May 19, 2008 Time flies. It seems it was two or three days ago at the most, but in fact its been already four weeks now that I attended a really interesting conference on privacy that took place here in Madrid. The setting was a somewhat formal one, as the event took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU to Internet search engines: six months seem more than enough</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2008/04/07/eu-to-internet-search-engines-six-months-seem-more-than-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna April 7, 2008 Last friday (April 4), the Spanish Data Protection Agency distributed a press release making public that the &#8216;Article 29 Data Protection Working Party&#8217; had finally issued its announced opinion on Internet search engines. As per said press release, the Working Party&#8217;s opinion states that search engines will not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP addresses: Personal Data?</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2008/02/26/ip-addresses-personal-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna February 26, 2008 There has been some debate lately at this side of the Atlantic on whether IP addresses should be considered as personal data. The EU Civil Liberties Committee recently held a hearing on various issues surrounding privacy on the Internet, where apparently this one surfaced as key amongst the different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfer heaven is on the way</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2008/01/12/surfer-heaven-is-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna January 14, 2008 The title used for this post is not mine. You&#8217;ll be able to find it at the European Commission&#8217;s official website. Seriously. After a public consultation on &#8216;Content Online&#8217; launched on 2006, the European Commission has come to the conclusion that (&#8230;) &#8220;multimedia content is big business&#8221; and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google and Privacy. They had it coming.</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2007/05/29/google-and-privacy-they-had-it-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 15:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna May 29, 2007 The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party &#8211;an advisory panel of data-protection chiefs from the 27 countries in the EU&#8211;, sent a letter last week to Google demanding an explanation on their recently announced policy of retaining data on search habits from individuals for a period of up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8216;DRM&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2007/03/01/thoughts-on-drm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna March 1, 2007 On February 6, Mr. Steve Jobs, Apple&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer published an open letter titled: &#8220;Thoughts on Music&#8220;. It seemed to me that this caught everybody in this arena completely off-guard, as such a thing as an open letter from the very secretive Apple (BTW, not Apple Computer anymore), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are we giving the US such a hard time on &#8216;data protection&#8217; grounds?</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2007/02/02/why-are-we-giving-the-us-such-a-hard-time-on-data-protection-grounds/</link>
		<comments>http://blogeuropa.eu/2007/02/02/why-are-we-giving-the-us-such-a-hard-time-on-data-protection-grounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna February 2, 2007 There is no need to resort to a legal scholar to obtain a general grasp upon the overall different approaches towards &#8216;privacy&#8217; both from the EU and the US perspectives. We, Europeans, seem to be very wary towards perceived potential threats to the &#8216;fundamental right&#8217; to privacy. Thus, Directive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time was ticking&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2006/10/03/time-was-ticking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna October 3, 2006 I recall it being on or around September 25th. that I had a few lines written down on a post that was going to be titled: &#8220;Time is ticking&#8230;&#8221; I thought that this matter had such a high importance, that an announcement over an agreement between the US and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright levies: &#8216;Fair&#8217; compensation for private copying?</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2006/06/26/copyright-levies-fair-compensation-for-private-copying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna June 25, 2006 (&#8230;) &#8220;In certain cases of exceptions or limitations, rightholders should receive fair compensation to compensate them adequately for the use made of their protected works or other subject-matter. (&#8230;) The level of fair compensation should take full account of the degree of use of technological protection measures referred to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy advocates rejoice! or not&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://blogeuropa.eu/2006/06/13/privacy-advocates-rejoice-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás F. Serna June 13, 2006 Had you scanned through the recent headlines on privacy issues and noticed about the recent Court of Justice of the European Communities judgment on the 2004 EU-US agreement over personal data transfers from EU based airline companies to the US Government &#8211;but weren&#8217;t provided with or didn&#8217;t stop to [...]]]></description>
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