According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Data Protection Directive applies to a video recording made with a surveillance camera installed by a person on his family home and directed toward the...

“Secret, massive and indiscriminate surveillance programs are not in conformity with European human rights law" and are not justified by terror threats, said Nils Muižnieks, the commissioner for human rights at the...

Thanks to a multi-million forint investment, a district in Budapest is fully covered by surveillance cameras. Does it represent a revolutionary advancement in security, or an invasive security program forced on the public?

The city council of Rotterdam has turned to the Dutch state secretary for finance, Eric Wiebes, to guarantee the privacy of car park consumers in the event of pay-by-plate parking. Currently, the data of consumers are...

The Dutch Data Protection Authority has established that the personal medical data of Dutch patients have been exchanged without their explicit consent.

Dutch authorities are increasing their requests for information from Facebook. In the first half of this year, government agencies requested data 41 times (relating to 45 Facebook accounts), compared to 43 requests...

Romania's Constitutional Court decided on Tuesday, September 16, that the law requiring the buyers of prepaid phone cards to be identified is unconstitutional. The Court upheld, by majority vote, the...

In August, the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice proposed a new structure for personal identification codes: a sequence of 11 randomly selected numbers. Currently, all Lithuanian personal codes adhere to a rigid internal...

A family's request to investigate an information leak to the media after a tragic home birth has been rejected by the Czech Constitutional Court.

Free Software Foundation recently launched a guide on how to encrypt emails. This guide helps internet users send and receive emails that are coded, which would prohibit anyone who may be intercepting an email from...