Belgium joins the long list of member states that have seen successful national challenges to data retention laws based on an EU directive that has itself been invalidated.

"Undemocratic, unnecessary and — in the long run — intolerable" is how an independent reviewer described the UK's snooping laws.

"Human Rights in Transformed Europe," a conference that has particular significance in the current geopolitical context, took place in Vilnius on June 11.

In a landmark ruling, the High Court of the United Kingdom has declared a key government surveillance law unlawful.

A broad coalition of human rights organizations, including the Belgian League of Human Rights, calls for an immediate suspension of the TTIP negotiations.

Germany is planning to pass a law this year allowing telecommunications data retention. Numerous critics deem this legislative proposal unconstitutional and fear extensive digital surveillance.

The Czech health minister plans to establish a register of the mentally ill, a populist step that does not help anyone, according to doctors and lawyers.

After years of legal proceedings against the storage of fingerprints under the Passport Act — one of the gravest privacy violations in the Netherlands — Privacy First and 19 co-plaintiffs were declared inadmissible by the Dutch Supreme Court.

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against Internet and mobile service provider Telenor in an attempt to have the Constitutional Court annul an unlawful act that allows for the retention of...

The Dutch Senate has so many questions about the legislative proposal concerning electronic health records, that it's questionable whether it will vote in favor of it.