Both the Personal Data Protection Act and the law increasing liability for not registering such databases have aroused serious concern among media, human rights and business organizations

Former Acting Defence Minister in Yulia Tymoshenko’s government, Valery Ivashchenko is outraged that the Prosecutors have doctors’ assessments of his state of health that neither he nor his lawyers have been given

NGOs fear that the gathering of data is linked with the approaching parliamentary elections, with the authorities thus trying to find out which NGOs plan to monitor the electoral process and which get financial assistance from abroad

Students who came to show support for Professor Suprun who is facing charges over research into the fate of Germans deported to Arkhangelsk carried banners reading: “Maybe there’s been enough repression?”; “Is it really 1937 again?” and “Free History!”

In Ukraine it’s virtually impossible to use a bank without giving information about your property and public activities. These are the results of research undertaken by Radio Svoboda after the National Bank of Ukraine ordered financial institutions to gather such information about their clients

Serhiy Leshchenko, journalist from Ukrainska Pravda has made public recordings which confirm the shocking accusations he made in an article earlier this week regarding Party of the Regions illegal gathering of information about journalists, their political views, etc

Director of the Media Law Institute, Taras Shevchenko’s response to the report in Ukrainska Pravda that members of the Party of the Regions are gathering confidential information about journalists is unequivocal. Such behaviour is in clear breach of the law

If the form allegedly sent around is not a fake, then this time their aim would seem to be specifically journalists, with information sought about the political preferences of representatives of the media.

The Verkhovna Rada has passed as a base a document which would introduce biometric information in passports

Human rights groups are concerned and warn that in Ukraine information from biometric passports could end up used by criminals

The new Law on Personal Data Protection is already showing its fangs, with employees effectively being forced to consent to unlimited retention and use of even the most sensitive personal information

This may be one of the first, but unlikely to be the last idiotic consequence of the new Law on Personal Data Protection, in force since 1 January this year

The instruction sent out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs on obtaining information about people receiving replacement therapy is in serious breach of the Ukrainian Constitution and legislation

The Law on Personal Data Protection, passed in June 2010, has come into force and human rights groups continue to warn of its grave consequences for freedom of speech and of access to information

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has received a document which shows that the President’s Administration is gathering information from around the entire country about, among other things, the political views of those in all leading positions

In his article “Privacy’s triumphant move”, Dmytro Chopovsky from the Institute for Mass Information analyzes the Law on Personal Data Protection recently signed into law by the President despite calls from business, human rights and media organizations. His assessment is equally damning

The Ministry claims that this will help in holding EURO 2012., which is bizarre since the move will lead to massive queues, and the football club has been held in a number of countries and none has introduced such a system.

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has initiated an appeal by civic organizations against plans to reintroduce named railway tickets

While the police say that they searched a journalist’s home on Saturday following a court order, the European Court of Human Rights sees such court orders as the last resort and the journalist herself says that had she been asked for the material sought, she would have handed it over

Journalists discovered that you can find out any Ternopil resident’s illnesses in a matter of minutes. You only need the person’s address and last name