After the major shift in surveillance practices from state power and control to big tech corporations and monetisation, we ...

Nowadays, data is mostly collected not by state actors but by businesses. In 2010, the German constitutional court held that ...

On 7 November 2024, the CJEU provided clarifications for building a cohesive EU-wide framework for compensating crime victims ...

This week, Verfassungsblog all eyes were on EYES EVERYWHERE, our Focus symposium on state and private mass surveillance under ...

The ongoing trilogue negotiations on the GDPR procedural regulation aim to address significant enforcement shortcomings. From ...

The Court of Justice’s Quadrature du Net judgements mark another key moment in the complex and long-lasting legal debate on ...

This blog post compares the European and US approach to metadata surveillance and highlights some challenges that arise ...

The classic story about the right to privacy and data protection in the EU is one of a high level of protection. Yet, this ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill sparked remarkable protest in Parliament itself where Māori lawmakers used haka ...

Is general and indiscriminate data retention permissible under the EU fundamental rights framework? In La Quadrature du Net ...

The recent judgements of the CJEU on data retention should not be regarded as an authoritarian move towards a less ...

Mass data retention is all about proportionality. The threat level determines the proportionality of the means – both of ...