Since 2001, EU governments have been eating away at our human rights in the name of fighting terrorism. Naturally, we are scared of terrorist attacks: no one wants to be injured or killed. We look to the authorities to do something that makes us safer.

Today, Liberties published its report ‘Security through Human Rights’. The report finds that two commonly used counter-terrorism measures are killing democracy, are ineffective and counter-productive.

Liberties member the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the Helsinki Committee in Poland expressed their utmost concern over the government's surveillance of non-governmental organizations.

A new and alarming amendment concerning data retention has been approved by the Chamber of Deputies and is now to be examined by the Senate. The initiative, intentionally proposed in at a time of low political...

We constantly share information and leave traces of ourselves online. And while the benefits are unquestionable, so too are the risks. Here's what Liberties is doing to improve the protection of our privacy.

Fifteen manned police posts outside various Jewish institutions in Amsterdam are being removed and replaced by an advanced camera system and a special team of 31 agents to monitor Jewish institutions. According to...

Following the alarming evidence that EU-made electronic surveillance equipment is still being exported to authoritarian countries around the world, an international network of NGOs urges the EU to comply with its human rights obligations.

Austrian officials want to give police access to secure private messages with end-to-end encryption to help them fight crime. The government, through a new draft law, is seeking access to real-time conversation data...

The export of surveillance equipment is becoming big business for Italian and international companies - business that puts activists and journalists working under authoritarian regimes in harm's way.

In a text adopted at a summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, EU leaders opened the door to cracking encryption of digital services like Whatsapp as a counter-terrorism measure. The text, which was amended at the...