Law enforcement around the world is apparently getting easier access to data in other countries, thanks to the Council of Europe’s adoption of a flawed new protocol to the Budapest Convention.
Law enforcement and security agencies are bristling at orders to limit their data collection practices.
Court ruled that Bulgaria violates the European Convention of Human Rights when it comes to secret surveillance and accessing of communication data.
The leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group.
Hundreds of projects show that Chinea is gathering data from sites including Twitter and Facebook to track perceived threats.
Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.
The CNIL chair has ordered the company to cease this illegal processing and to delete the data within two months.
Facebook is notifying nearly 50,000 users in more than 100 countries that they may have been targets of hacking attempts by private surveillance companies working for government agencies
Excessive surveillance is having profoundly negative effects on the workforce.
Some pupils are monitored by CCTV cameras as frequently prison inmates.
The Council of the EU wants to make it possible for private actors to operate mass biometric surveillance systems on behalf of police forces.
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements.