Ministers say exceptional security needed but rights groups warn new law could extend police powers permanently.
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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled that UK spies have unlawfully held onto individuals' intercepted data for five years.
The Maltese government has decided to put an end to the Safe City Malta project
A senior MEP within the European Parliament has accused the EU of trying to bring in “mass surveillance” with a new law controlling private online chats.
Campaigners concerned that ‘same racist technology used to repress Uyghurs is being marketed in Britain’.
The Dutch privacy watchdog has fined the Rotterdam police force €50,000 for using cars equipped with cameras to monitor social distancing rule.
How the disgraced co-founder of France’s answer to Google moved into the murky world of cybersurveillance.
The Slovenian DPA confirmed that providing safety of property can be in a legitimate interest of the data controller, but but must be appropriate and necessary.
An independent test suggests Apple collects data about you and your phone when its own settings promise to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether.”
Facial recognition cameras have scanned the faces of more than 125,000 people in London in a little over a year, but resulted in just nine arrrests.