Privacy

A set of government proposed bills in Macedonia, aimed at improving civilian control over the security services, which Brussels has noted in the past as a serious issue, will enter parliamentary procedure this week.

Some 3,800,000 BGN have disappeared from the bank account of the Bulgarian footballer Martin Petrov. He has filed an alert to the Prosecutor's Office that money from his account in a Bulgarian bank was missing.

In its first public statement on Greek tax affairs, Airbnb took a tough stance against the Greek government and refused to share the tax details of the property owners with whom it cooperates with the Greek state.

Surveillance camera footage of a man performing an enormous bicycle kick on a balloon in Ankara has gone viral on Turkish social media.

Police on Friday stepped up an investigation into the murder of prominent lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos, who was gunned down in his central Athens office on Thursday night, apparently by perpetrators posing as clients.

According to authorities, the two men who entered the building on Asklipiou Street at around 7 p.m. had had an appointment with Zafeiropoulos.

A group of lawyers are pressuring EU legislators to propose rules that could force internet platforms to hand over data that belongs to another person who had died or is being cared for.

Companies need to make sure that employees are aware in advance of management monitoring of their work email accounts, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Sept. 5 in a landmark privacy case.

Foreign and Greek companies are reportedly showing a keen interest in the project to develop a 60-million-euro maritime surveillance system.

The project - named the National Integrated Maritime Surveillance System (ESOST) - will include drones flying over Greek seas, the installation of low-light and thermal radiation cameras, as well as satellite monitoring services.

The big IT companies demand to restrict authorities' access to user data. Reports Kaldata. 

The American Facebook, Google, Apple, and other IT companies have called on the US Supreme Court to seek to restrict law enforcement access to consumer privacy. That's what The Verge reported.

Hungary's data protection watchdog on Monday lashed government plans to centralise personal data and ease rules on allowing official access, calling them a major threat to citizens' rights.