The Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) has established a specific audit team to investigate telecommunication providers’ records over the lifting of privacy protections for four individuals in... read more →
Tirana Court received a prosecution request to arrest and question five public officials over the latest round of cyber attacks that crippled a number of state institutions. The court’s response... read more →
Five MPs from North Macedonia’s ruling Social Democrat government have proposed a motion to allow state and municipal authorities to buy ad space in private media for public awareness campaigns.... read more →
A Serbian court has fined investigative media outlet KRIK for publishing news linking a criminal group trial with Bratislav Gasic, Serbia’s new Interior Minister and former chief of the Security... read more →
A recent survey for Hungary’s decennial census caused widespread alarm on social media, with many expressing concern that Viktor Orban’s government is gradually building a surveillance state. The delivery of... read more →
A parliamentary committee in Albania has paved the way for the adoption of a new law that would declassify documents from Albania’s Communist-era State Security Directorate, the Sigurimi. The draft... read more →
A European Parliamentary inquiry has heard a group of Greek journalists testify about the use of spyware in Greece. The inquiry was part of a Committee of Inquiry on the... read more →
Despite Serbia advancing in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index, Serbian journalists report facing a persistent culture of framing independent media as a hostile force to the government. In 2021,... read more →
In a video aired by Top Channel, Albania’s leading television channel, a suspected gang employee at a poultry farm appears to threaten and assault a journalist and camera operator. “Earlier... read more →
As the war in Ukraine unfolds with unforeseeable outcomes, Germany has surprised the world by doing a political U-turn, undoing decades of established policy dogma with the announcement to be... read more →