council of europe

Marietje Schaake is ‘very concerned about the future of democracy’

"...Some of the worst aggressors or most powerful and intrusive companies are basically completely out of the spotlight."

Europe’s highest human rights court to hear challenge to UK’s bulk surveillance regime

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has agreed to hear a legal challenge to the use of bulk data collection surveillance powers by U.K. intelligence agencies. Last September

European Rights Body Again Rejects Mass Surveillance

Europe's top rights body, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has crystalized its censure of mass surveillance as a threat to fundamental human rights and to democracy itself b

NSA Spied On Human Rights Groups, Says Snowden

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed that U.S. government intelligence agencies spied on NGOs and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as part of it

Council of Europe To Return To Wired Communication, Potentially Pony Express

Yesterday, the Council of Europe released a report recommending that member states rethink the way they look at radiation used in wireless communication, putting it on par with the type of health haza