News on Privacy & Security

A proposed amendment to the Lithiuanian Electronic Communications Law aims to grant governmental authorities with access to mobile location data.

Complex and possibly irreversible legal initiatives - that normally take years to be debated and responsively shaped - are being implemented overnight.

The Covid-19 pandemic is challenging public health, economic and social life across Europe. Yet aspiring authoritarians are living a dream. Pandemic is a perfect excuse to interpret basic rights at will.

On 19 March 2020, the Israeli High Court of Justice rendered temporary orders that put checks and balances on wide-ranging emergency tracking and surveillance regulation issued by the government.

Law professor Niva Elkin-Koren on the adequate balance between preserving the public’s health and protecting individual rights in time of the pandemic.

Recent case-law of the European Court of Justice has substantially widened the notion of “data controller" in unclear and potentially onerous ways for a range of actors involved in personal data processing. This has worrying implications for data subjects who may be characterised as controllers, and for emergent decentralised and privacy

After a process that took more than five years, Serbia finally received a new Law on Personal Data Protection [in Serbian] - adopted by the National Assembly last November. The law closely follows EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , almost to the point of literal translation into Serbian. That was expected, due to Serbia’s EU

Introduction The digitisation of our societies comes along with a number of challenges and opportunities - the dimension of which are far from being assessed, not to say understood. While the internet allowing easy access of everybody to the general political discourse was for some time understood as a great opportunity for strengthening democracy

Stefania Milan and Claudio Agosti present the Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) project as well as the browser extension fbtrex.

Polish digital rights organisation Panoptykon Foundation filed complaints against Google and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Responses were fired quickly. Here's the reaction to the responses.