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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: Can Europe Make It?Diagonal mass surveillance: Gulliver versus the Lilliputians
Mass surveillance does not follow the vertical logic of pure state surveillance as imagined by Orwell. Rather, it is...
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Published in: openSecuritySaving privacy from deformed democracy
With focus on the government's grip over surveillance, the public debate over privacy has ignored citizen-led data...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Snowden and state surveillance in Spain
Like most Europeans, Spaniards were shocked by revelations of extensive US spying on European citizens. Yet, there...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new German surveillance state - Merkel, Snowden and the Euro Hawk drone
In principle, Germany is a state committed to democracy and international peace. This is why three recent political...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The digital freedom risk: too fragile an acknowledgment
At least at first, freedom dies without human beings being physically hurt. The author is convinced that the freedom...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overview
One of Britain's most distinguished political theorists on republicanism, freedom, Machiavelli, Hobbes, the...
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Published in: HomeThe destruction of the commons
These tools are too powerful for governments not to use. John Boehner, Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi – who agree on...
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Published in: HomeWhat can we say? On Prism, the Snooper's Charter, whistleblowers, spies and secret courts ...
In February 2009 the Convention of Modern Liberty gathered a distinguished crowd who cared about the issues raised...