Filter
Themes
Tags
In an op-ed published in The Washington Post Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg says the responsibility for monitoring harmful content is too great for firms like his to handle alone. He calls for countries around the...
More than a 100 advertising companies, including Google and Facebook, are allowed to track visitors to government and other public sector websites, in a clear violation of governments' own data protection rules, a new...
A sobering report from the UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has denounced Facebook for “intentionally and knowingly” violating data privacy laws, and calls for a compulsory code of ethics...
Germany's competition regulator has announced it will order Facebook to substantially restrict how it collects and combines data about its users unless they give explicit consent. The German watchdog’s decision...
Google has been fined for the first time under the new EU privacy regulation after France’s CNIL data protection authority handed down a 50 m euro penalty for breaching the privacy law by failing to obtain adequate...
Your contribution matters
As a watchdog organisation, Liberties reminds politicians that respect for human rights is non-negotiable. We're determined to keep championing your civil liberties, will you stand with us? Every donation, big or small, counts.
We’re grateful to all our supporters
Your contributions help us in the following ways
► Liberties remains independent
► It provides a stable income, enabling us to plan long-term
► We decide our mission, so we can focus on the causes that matter
► It makes us stronger and more impactful
Your contribution matters
As a watchdog organisation, Liberties reminds politicians that respect for human rights is non-negotiable. We're determined to keep championing your civil liberties, will you stand with us? Every donation, big or small, counts.
The Federal Cartel Office plans to order Facebook to stop gathering some user data, it states in a new fresh report. According to German media sources, the watchdog will present the social media firm with a ruling on...
Google is likely to win a European Court of Justice case about the right to be forgotten. In an initial opinion, the court's advocate general, Maciej Szpunar, stated that the right to be forgotten in EU internet...
Austria's national Post Office is facing intense criticism for collecting and selling its customers' data. According to the investigative journalism website Addendum, the postal service sold the names, addresses, age...
After long-time pressure from the Estonian Human Rights Centre and others, the Estonian Ministry of Justice has drafted a proposal to amend the provisions of the Electronic Communications Act that require the retention of mass communications metadata.
An investigation by the New York Times has disclosed new details about ways the social media company shared access to user data with other tech firms, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify and Yandex....
Subscribe to stay in
the loop
You will get the latest reports before anyone else!
You can follow what we are doing for your rights!
You will know about our achivements!