News and Research articles on Blanket surveillanceLaw professor Niva Elkin-Koren on the adequate balance between preserving the public’s health and protecting individual rights in time of the pandemic.
How has policy reacted to the post-Snowden surveillance discourse in the UK? This paper identifies eight dynamics.
Short overview by reporter Monika Ermert on the many pending and newly announced surveillance cases before the European Court of Human Rights, as well as national courts.
After more than 50 years, the issue of treason has returned with a bang onto Germany's public agenda. The Netzpolitik.org affair might go down in history as a turning point.
Legal scholar Jean Fau reacts as the French senate vote a controversial intelligence bill.
A committee of the Council of Europe released a report on mass surveillance on 26 January 2015. Some of its recommendations are expected to influence the debate heavily.
Don’t let the legal and legitimate pursuit of privacy be marginalised or criminalised, argues Becky Kazansky of the Tactical Technology Collective.
The by-now-classic-hacker-event CCC is on and one of the participants says: "ethics and hacking should be made part of the educational curricula".
A better parliamentary control of intelligence services should be top priority in democratic states, pleads Lena Ulbricht.
In an ambitious move, the Brazilian government, technical and civil society organised a meeting to address key issues of internet governance. While not everybody was happy with the final result, process-wise it was a landmark meeting.
How can the European Union react to the revelations of mass collection of personal data by domestic or third country spying agencies? Researcher Carlo Piltz discusses the hot topic and proposes a way ahead.
It is difficult to argue against measures that could prevent a 9/11-like attack in the US. However, many in the EU remain concerned about privacy and fundamental rights in general after the Snowden revelations. Conclusions from politicians on both sides illustrate the divergence.
If you do not see a policeman outside of your door, you are looking out of the wrong window. Read this scholarly essay as an analogy of privacy violations.
According to the fourth edition of the eGovernment Monitor, released on November 28, the number of users of eGovernment services in Sweden in 2013 was 53 percent, compared to 70 percent in 2012. On average, the decline in all monitored countries was as high as 8 percent.
Internet engineers and hackers clash in Berlin during the internet protocol conference IETF. Encryption experts from both camps agree on one thing though: privacy by default.