Didier Bigo is Director of the Centre for Research on Conflicts, Liberty and Security (CCLS) and professor of war studies at King’s College, London.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesMethod in Trump’s madness?A look at Donald Trump’s 'travel bans' with an eye to the harvesting of personal data, and the EU-US Privacy Shield, now on life support.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We need to remove free movement from the vicious circle of securityWhile freedoms, such as the principles of equality and non-discrimination, the presumption of innocence and respect for privacy, undoubtedly still exist, they have been relegated to the margins.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe paradox at the heart of the Snowden revelationsIf proper oversight is not developed, Snowden’s legacy will have served only to reinforce one thing: the intrusiveness of global surveillance.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Paris attacks November 13: ending the cycle of vengeance?After the worst attacks in their history, the Spanish and Norwegian governments had the courage to respond differently from the Anglo-American mimetic knee-jerk response - an example France should follow.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Britain and the European debate on the uses of secrecy in courtEU scrutiny in the field of the use of closed materials in UK courts is of paramount importance for the future of democratic systems of justice, even if it polarises once more the positions for or against Brexit.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Will the democratic debate over counterrorism gain the edge in battle?It is our role, as citizens, to scrutinise measures taken in the name of our security and ask, once and for all, for evidenced-based policies: there are no such things as depoliticised and neutral counter-terrorism strategies.