A new bill currently under consideration in Parliament includes regulations on government-sponsored hacking, but watchdogs say the language needs changing to protect citizens' right to privacy.

In a recently published report, the UN special rapporteur on privacy criticizes the US and other countries for snooping on citizens' data with the deceitful excuse of increasing security.

Advertising totems in the Milan's train station have facial recognition software in order to collect passenger data without authorization.

The police in the Netherlands can search a smartphone as long as it does not disproportionally infringe on the owner's privacy.

The European Commission will propose new measures in June that make it easier for police to access encrypted data on internet apps like WhatsApp. The decision, announced on March 28 by EU Justice Commissioner Věra...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joseph Cannataci, has issued a new report condemning today’s surveillance legislation and expressing grave concerns about the right to privacy in the...

A coalition of 17 global civil society organisations, including Liberties, has sent a letter to European Commissioner for Justice and Consumers Věra Jourová to express the need for a reform of US surveillance laws....

The Warsaw Police Department published images of more than 20 participants of anti-government demonstrations on its website without giving any information about the purpose for doing so or any alleged criminal action.

Researchers at Stanford and Princeton universities have concluded that 72 percent of users can be identified by comparing their web-browsing history to information publicly available on social media. The project...

The company's contract to export surveillance systems to Egyptian government has been stopped after human rights groups urged the Italian Ministry of Economic Development to reconsider the plan.