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 ...

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

The issuing of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...

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

Mass data retention is on the rise. Here on the Verfassungsblog, the (conservative) Bavarian Minister of the Interior, ...

Ten years after its groundbreaking judgment declaring the Data Retention Directive incompatible the EU Charter the Full Court ...

The Court needs political backing, and the remarkable and unprecedented support from Member States for European values, as ...

Two weeks ago, the Israeli Knesset passed a law that grants the Minister of the Interior powers to deport family members of ...

Former ECtHR Vice-President Prof. Dr. Angelika Nußberger and current ECtHR Judge Dr. Kateřina Šimáčková discuss judges’ ...

The Georgian Dream Party has been declared as winner of the parliamentary election in Georgia. Independent observers, however ...

India is currently witnessing a spate of protests against gender-based violence targeted towards women. The rape and murder ...