The Commission’s proposal to fight online child sexual abuse is well intentioned, but badly executed. It would threaten encryption and harm our fundamental rights, including children's. Even without authoritarianism on the rise, this would be dangerous.
Since Snowden's revelations, journalists and writers have been self-censoring on a wide range of issues - and this is just one of the 'chilling effects' of mass surveillance.
Opinion shapers don’t just develop new ideas that may become social rules. They also create new information on how existing rules are being applied in practice - something called democratic accountability. To do so they need privacy - here is why.
Whistleblowers expose information on activities within a company, a ministry or some other organisation that they consider to be illegal or grossly unethical.
Freedom of speech is necessary to hold governments to account, but it is under threat in Europe. Here’s why this right is so important, and what Liberties is doing to protect it.
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Today there are fewer than 50 days left of the Obama presidency. Will he grant a pardon to Edward Snowden as one of his last acts?
Watch a former NSA expert turned whistleblower reveal the truth about mass surveillance to UK government.
Too little has been done to ensure that citizens' rights are protected following revelations of electronic mass surveillance, say civil liberties MEPs in an October resolution.
Liberty has joined other human rights organizations in an appeal against an investigatory tribunal's ruling that UK mass surveillance activities are legal.
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