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Any “safe harbor” mechanism for bypassing the MLAT system must entail increasing protections for human rights.

Access Now and EFF call on governments and companies to address the risks that XR technologies and the “metaverse” pose to human rights.

Last week, the UK High Court issued an opinion explaining how emergency legislation passed last summer — the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act of 2014 (DRIPA) — violates EU law. We analyze the ruling and consider the implications for the future of privacy and data retention in Europe.

Today, Facebook released its first Global Government Requests Report detailing the number of requests for user data the company receives from governments around the world.

We’re asking Facebook some questions, and giving you some answers.

This week Verizon became the first multinational telco to release a Transparency Report on law enforcement requests.

The latest transparency reports and civil society work show the practice is growing up.

Wikimedia appears to be taking strong actions to protect user data from surveillance and censorship.

On June 25, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama administration is seeking to extend to EU citizens several privacy protections in U.S. law, which today are only available to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. If the U.S. Congress follows through and passes legislation to this effect, Europeans will gain access to U.S. courts for certain privacy offences, for the first time.