Facebook must stop tracking Belgian users’ surfing outside the social network and delete data it’s already gathered, or it will face fines of 250,000 euros a day, a Belgian court ruled. Facebook “doesn’t...

Facebook’s default privacy settings and use of personal data violate German consumer law, a Berlin regional court has ruled. The court determined that Facebook collects and uses personal data without providing its...

Authorities who work at EU level may be unable to fully enforce a new data protection regulation after May because of lagging member state legislation. The General Data Protection Regulation, a massive overhaul of EU...

Britain will now need to amend its law giving state security agents sweeping mass surveillance powers. What does this mean for citizens?

A new law allows the German intelligence service to spy on foreign journalists. This destroys the trust between journalists and their sources, especially in the case of investigative journalism.

Many Dutch nationals abroad want to vote in the referendum on the proposed Intelligence and Security Act. The municipality of The Hague sent 54,000 registration forms this week to Dutch people living abroad so that...

Appellate court judges in the UK have ruled the government’s mass digital surveillance regime unlawful in a case brought by the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson. The ruling on Tuesday held that the powers in the Data...

Research shows mass surveillance is causing a decline in free speech over the internet. Read the latest episode of our series to learn more about the 'spiral of silence'.

Earlier this month, Privacy International, together with legal scholars and 26 human and digital rights organisations, including Liberties member the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights, filed an amicus...

Since Snowden's revelations, journalists and writers have been self-censoring on a wide range of issues - and this is just one of the 'chilling effects' of mass surveillance.