After the major shift in surveillance practices from state power and control to big tech corporations and monetisation, we ...

Nowadays, data is mostly collected not by state actors but by businesses. In 2010, the German constitutional court held that ...

This week, Verfassungsblog all eyes were on EYES EVERYWHERE, our Focus symposium on state and private mass surveillance under ...

On 7 November 2024, the CJEU provided clarifications for building a cohesive EU-wide framework for compensating crime victims ...

This blog post compares the European and US approach to metadata surveillance and highlights some challenges that arise ...

The ongoing trilogue negotiations on the GDPR procedural regulation aim to address significant enforcement shortcomings. From ...

The Court of Justice’s Quadrature du Net judgements mark another key moment in the complex and long-lasting legal debate on ...

As artificial intelligence revolutionizes modern warfare, systems like Israel’s Lavender and Ukraine’s use of Clearview AI ...

Is general and indiscriminate data retention permissible under the EU fundamental rights framework? In La Quadrature du Net ...

The classic story about the right to privacy and data protection in the EU is one of a high level of protection. Yet, this ...

The recent judgements of the CJEU on data retention should not be regarded as an authoritarian move towards a less ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill sparked remarkable protest in Parliament itself where Māori lawmakers used haka ...