100,000 US dollars was spent on 3,000 advertisements over a two-year period until May 2017, a Facebook internal investigation revealed. The ads did not support any parties or politicians in particular but did spread...

A law allowing the government entrust a central repository with retaining visual and audio records made by various bodies would let the Hungarian state create anyone's complete profile. HCLU says that, thanks to its...

Estonia holding the EU's rotating presidency has been pushing the 28 member states to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance – a Council of the European Union document leaked by Statewatch shows. The document...

EU migrant relocation quotas declared legal and challenges against it by Slovakia and Hungary dismissed in EU court ruling on Wednesday.

Amnesty International is ringing the alarm about the use of tasers by police forces. They deem the use of a taser, in situations that are not directly life-threatening, a violation of the prohibition on torture and...

Within the EU, companies are obliged to balance workplace surveillance with employees privacy rights – ruled the European Court of Human Rights. The Strasbourg court reversed its earlier ruling from last year when a...

23 Hungarian NGOs have filed a joint appeal to the Hungarian Constitutional Court against the law stigmatising NGOs.

The ruling coalition from the Romanian Government decided that the referendum on the constitutional amendments will be held this autumn. The decision is a response to the request of religious organizations that ...

The Central Council of Appeals ruled on July 27, 2017, that the UWV, the Dutch institution responsible for the distribution of benefits, unlawfully denied a self-employed women paid maternity leave. The court held...

Three Lithuanian policemen were fired after torturing a man detained for disturbing the peace. The man, who was drunk and rowdy, was handcuffed behind his back and had his hands held up with a rope for nearly an hour....