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Published in: Home“We had to wait for Snowden for proof”, an exchange with NSA whistleblower William BinneyThe NSA preferred a much more expensive system of bulk collection of foreign data. That was a fatal choice as it...
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Published in: HomeAll I can say is that you are uninteresting! An exchange with General Michael Hayden, Director of the NSA from 1999-2005On the first anniversary of Ed Snowden’s revelations, this interview contributes to what we intend will become a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Let's not talk about it": how the mass surveillance debate was silenced in RomaniaThe active suppression of debate about mass surveillance, SIM card registration and data retention by Romanian...
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Published in: openSecurityBuilding the blacklist: police spies and trade unionistsIn 2009 a UK construction industry blacklist, administered by a private company holding files on thousands of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mass surveillance and institutional racism: two sides of the Swedish coinLast year, it was revealed that the Swedish state indexed all Roma living in Sweden and made its secret services...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU's active fight for digital rightsProtecting personal data is high on the EU agenda, and Snowden’s revelations undoubtedly triggered reactions and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Surveillance in Spain: a slowly developing debate amid political indifferenceHow did the Snowden saga impact Spain? How did the government and society react to the revelations about...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Silence remains the easiest answer: Polish non-reactions to Snowden’s disclosuresLegitimising the politics of mass surveillance wouldn’t be possible in Poland if it wasn’t successfully tested by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mind the gap: is data protection catching up with Google Search?The recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Google Spain judgment profoundly challenges the current...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EUA discussion of European surveillance programmes cannot be reduced to the question of a balance between data...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Swiss debate on mass surveillance: what debate?How did Switzerland, a country attached to the importance of personal privacy, respond after the story about the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?State surveillance in the Czech RepublicThe Czech state doesn't have the capacities to develop a mass scale internet surveillance programme – but resorts to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Sweden's surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EUOver the years, Sweden has become the biggest collaborating partner of GCHQ outside the English-speaking countries,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Germany's surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EU
Germany has been engaging in large-scale surveillance and exchange of communications data with international...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France's surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EU
François Hollande sharply criticised US surveillance last year, but the fact remains that France also engages in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Netherlands' surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EU
The Dutch state is developing a considerable surveillance and intelligence sharing apparatus. For what purpose?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?UK surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EU
The UK government is engaged in the most extensive surveillance activities out of all EU countries - by far.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Edward Snowden: the last Big Brother?Following last year's revelations, Edward Snowden seems to be trapped in a role ironically reminiscent of another...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What does mass surveillance do to Human Rights?Where such mass, weakly targeted surveillance techniques have been used in Europe, the Human Rights Court has found...
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Published in: openSecurityBig Brother is cashing in on you
The internet’s cookie monsters are harvesting your secrets. A £90bn industry is going unregulated and unchecked,...