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Published in: HomeThe EU could be a global standard setter on surveillance reform, but actions speak louder than wordsDespite landmark court cases, many member states in the EU continue to push forward with overbroad surveillance laws.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWho can keep the German secret services in check?Given the scope of BND-NSA cooperation, the German government can no longer ignore that the supervision of its...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesFrance’s Intelligence Bill: legalising mass surveillanceThe French government claims its new Intelligence Bill is defined in opposition to the American and British models –...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIn new gods do we trust?Do you expect the machine to solve the problems? In this wide-ranging interview with the Director of the Open Rights...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy bother about digital rights? An absence in the election campaignsDigital rights are too often reduced to questions of ‘security’. In their election manifestos none of the major...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe cost of silence: mass surveillance & self-censorshipThe true impact of mass surveillance on media freedom can be felt in the moments when writers hesitate to conduct...
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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...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDigital rights and freedoms: Part 1Under the rubric of state security on the one hand and commercial openness on the other, we are being lulled into an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDigital rights and freedoms: Part 2More than rights, a set of guiding principles is needed to counterpose to the reigning ideals of ‘security’,...
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Published in: HomeDigital citizenship: from liberal privilege to democratic emancipationOn the anniversary of the Magna Carta, a call for a new debate on the conception of citizenship. Let’s seize the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Scope-creep in DenmarkIt takes vigilance to prevent the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen from exacting not only the lives of two innocent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?PODCAST: Defending human rights in a digital ageA panel discussion chaired by Marianne Franklin at Goldsmiths opens up the many human rights implications for the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy Britain won’t talk about crucial elements of Jihadi John’s storyThe role of our security services in the actions of 'Jihadi John' needs grown up discussion – we must not forget the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland: trust no one but the lawLast week the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg rejected a Polish appeal on CIA-prison cases involving...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Defending human rights in a digital age
Public Debate: Defending human rights in a digital age is being livestreamed from Goldsmiths media and...
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Published in: openSecurityMass surveillance: wrong in practice as well as principleThe paradox of mass state surveillance, as the answer to non-state violence, is that it can overlook the...
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Published in: 50.50Report thy neighbour: policing Sisi’s Egypt
A regime bereft of legitimacy, save for its promise to guarantee national security, turns citizens into active...
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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...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Police cooperation: another angle on the surveillance debateMeet Bahar Kimyongür, a political activist arrested, detained, and released in three European countries on an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Please mind the datachasmThey began to interpret things like him leaving the house without his mobile phone as indications that their...
