The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights is now final: Hungarian law violates the rights of privacy and family life, and therefore the government must change its current regulations. The Strasbourg court...

The special services coordinator of Poland's Internal Security Agency has said that the previous government allegedly kept over 50 journalists under surveillance. In response, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights...

The need to implement effective public surveillance of private care centers for the disabled, chronically ill and elderly in Poland was highlighted by recent cases of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Some...

The EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive has not yet formally been approved by the European Parliament, but that has not prevented the European Commission and member states from setting up the infrastructure...

Given the secret nature of the surveillance measures and the lack of effective means to challenge them at a national level, the court said that complainants don't need to prove that their communications risk being tapped.

The file on each vehicle contains its registration number, the place and date it passed through a monitored area, and a picture of the car and its driver.

The post-9/11 era has brought on a monstrous level of hyper-surveillance and social control, which is strengthened every day by governments that legislate to this end.

Negotiations on a key transatlantic data-transfer agreement have entered their final week, as US and EU officials work out critical points to ensure the safety of European citizens' data. Although talks have been...

A new act on police action fails to fulfill its intended purpose and instead expands surveillance powers and restricts citizens' rights to privacy and legal recourse.

The Strasbourg court's decision in a case from Hungary declares once and for all that uncontrolled government surveillance is incompatible with European human rights standards.