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Last year, the EU Commission proposed making fingerprints on national identity cards mandatory.
The League of Human Rights and Liga voor Mensenrechten have lodged an appeal before the Constitutional Court against a new law requiring the introduction of digital fingerprints on identity cards.
Every time you go online, your personal information — health history, sexual orientation, browsing history and more — can be shared with thousands of companies in less time than it takes you to blink your eyes.
Through real-time bidding, intimate and very detailed information about you may end up in databases owned by companies you have never heard about without you ever consenting to it.
In 2018 a Brussels court ruled that Facebook had broken privacy laws and needed to erase illegally-gathered data on Belgian users, but now the social media behemoth is challenging the decision in an appeals court. The...
EU representatives from the European Parliament, the European Commission and the national governments have agreed on EU-wide whistleblower protection. While the final legal text is not yet published, press statements...
Tech giant Microsoft has warned Europe about the growing threat of Russian hackers interfering in European elections after a hacker group targeted three major European think-tanks: The German Council on Foreign...
A new study on legal safeguards against bulk surveillance regimes urges for more judicial oversight in protecting civil rights. The study by technology thinktank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung argues that the recent...
Disinformation is all over the place. Populist politicians brand any story or news outlet that disagree with “fake news,” yet they are so often the ones behind the most mendacious disinformation.
