Nowadays, data is mostly collected not by state actors but by businesses. In 2010, the German constitutional court held that ...

After the major shift in surveillance practices from state power and control to big tech corporations and monetisation, we ...

On 7 November 2024, the CJEU provided clarifications for building a cohesive EU-wide framework for compensating crime victims ...

The ongoing trilogue negotiations on the GDPR procedural regulation aim to address significant enforcement shortcomings. From ...

This is a frontal and deep attack against the … European society.” With this remarkable statement the Commission has started ...

The Court of Justice’s Quadrature du Net judgements mark another key moment in the complex and long-lasting legal debate on ...

This blog post compares the European and US approach to metadata surveillance and highlights some challenges that arise ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill sparked remarkable protest in Parliament itself where Māori lawmakers used haka ...

Is general and indiscriminate data retention permissible under the EU fundamental rights framework? In La Quadrature du Net ...

The classic story about the right to privacy and data protection in the EU is one of a high level of protection. Yet, this ...

The recent judgements of the CJEU on data retention should not be regarded as an authoritarian move towards a less ...

Mass data retention is all about proportionality. The threat level determines the proportionality of the means – both of ...