Hackers successfully accessed European Union diplomatic cables over a period of several years, according to reporting from The New York Times. The intercepted messages, numbering in the thousands, discussed a broad...

In a letter sent on Monday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, twenty-nine civil rights groups call on him and COO Sheryl Sandberg to step down, citing years of the company's role in "generating bigotry and hatred...

The Romanian data protection authority has sent questions to journalists who authored an article on a corruption case, and has asked for information which could reveal the article’s sources.

Authoritarians will create chaos and a constant sense of danger as an excuse to enact new laws, each one limiting your freedoms and civil liberties more than the last. They will disguise them as being for your protection, but they aren't.

Hackers have published private messages from some 81,000 Facebook accounts, and may have access to 120 million users' accounts in total. The group of hackers had been attempting to sell the private messages from...

Apple CEO Tim Cook expressed his company’s supports for Europe’s news data protection regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). At the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy...

The use of facial recognition surveillance is becoming widespread across Europe, and those who stand to lose the most are law-abiding citizens, not criminals.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that UK laws enabling mass surveillance violate human rights. In its 13 September judgment, the Court held that the UK's bulk interception regime violated the right to...

The incident is yet another example of how the Dutch government is careless with its citizens' personal data.

A resident of Haarlem, the Netherlands, is going to bring a lawsuit against the municipality because of the introduction of digital visitor parking. From 1 September, the municipality wants residents to register their...