Organisations from 6 countries have today lodged complaints with their data protection authorities about the behavioural advertising industry’s harmful practices of broadcasting people’s personal data on the internet.

​While governments around the world are rightly focussing on vaccination strategies to protect people from COVID-19, a debate has heated up as to what the vaccine will entail for our civil liberties – including our right to move freely in the EU.

This is a summary of some of the most prominent media reports about the vaccine passport.

A 34-year-old man from Eindhoven has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for human trafficking. He severely abused three women in 2009 and 2010. He made a Dutch woman work in the sex industry and took her...

The European Parliament has adopted a new resolution regarding CIA prisons in Europe, expressing serious concern with the apathy that is shown by member countries and EU institutions towards bringing those who are...

Czechia and Slovakia are among the EU countries with a high degree of modern slavery, states the London-based Walk Free Foundation in a new report. According to the report's authors, people fall into modern slavery...

"At a time when the space for civil society is shrinking in an increasing number of countries," the EU reaffirmed its commitment to support NGOs outside Europe. They expressed their opposition to any restrictions on...

In a move to limit the political fallout from a security breach that may have led to the mass disclosure of citizens’ private information, two Swedish ministers on Thursday resigned from the government. In one of the...

Companies must tell employees in advance if their work email accounts are being monitored without unduly infringing their privacy. In a judgment of European Court of Human Rights in the case of a man fired 10 years...

Members of the European Parliament have debated on and passed several new human rights motions during a plenary session today, Thursday, October 5. MEPs passed all three human rights motions they debated this morning,...