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

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

Das sicher am lautesten diskutierte und juristisch am intensivsten untersuchte Instrument der Massenüberwachung ist die ...

The issuing of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...

Mass data retention is on the rise. Here on the Verfassungsblog, the (conservative) Bavarian Minister of the Interior, ...

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

Ten years after its groundbreaking judgment declaring the Data Retention Directive incompatible the EU Charter the Full Court ...

Am 19. Dezember 2022 reichte die Europäische Kommission in der Rechtssache C-769/22 eine Vertragsverletzungsklage ein, in der ...

“This is a frontal and deep attack against the … European society.” With this remarkable statement the Commission’s ...

Die AfD wird seit 2021 als Gesamtpartei durch das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) als sog. Verdachtsfall beobachtet. Das OVG NRW hat die Rechtmäßigkeit dieser Beobachtung vor Kurzem bestätigt ...

In 2013, the Banking Union was launched as the most ambitious step in EU economic integration since the creation of the euro in 1999. In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, the project aimed to ...