The Digital/Green/Society, 14-16 May, Belgrade The issues of climate crises and the rapid development of information technologies are closely related, although the public generally does not discuss it enough. The processes of exploitation of natural resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining the global […]
The controversial Draft Law on Internal Affairs was withdrawn from the procedure on Monday, December 26. The decision to withdraw followed two sessions of the public discussion, which was initially open for three weeks and then extended at the request of civic organisations. At the […]
The analysis of the new Draft Law on Internal Affairs, the Draft Law on Data Processing and Records in Internal Affairs, as well as the new working draft of Data Protection Impact Assessment, shows that the fundamental issues of the intrusive technology application in Serbia […]
The Ministry of Interior published a new version of the Draft Law on Internal Affairs, the Draft Law on Data Processing and Records in Internal Affairs, as well as a series of other laws from its jurisdiction. The proposed legislation contains provisions regulating biometric surveillance […]
In the past decade, thriving online harassment and hate speech, armies of bots spreading disinformation as a mean of interference in the elections, far-right propaganda, and waves of obscurantism disseminating through the COVID-19 related fake news repeatedly made online platforms’ content moderation the topic on […]
As an organisation dedicated to digital rights and freedoms, fighting against the use of mass biometric surveillance, we welcome the decision of the Serbian Minister of Interior to withdraw the controversial Draft Law on Internal Affairs. We call on the authorities to take another step […]
The public debate on the Draft Law on Internal Affairs has officially introduced into legal procedure provisions for the use of mass biometric surveillance in public spaces in Serbia, advanced technologies equipped with facial recognition software that enable capturing and processing of large amounts of […]
More than 180 journalists were discovered in a database of phone numbers designated for potential espionage, thanks to a leak of documents given to the Forbidden Stories journalistic collective and Amnesty International. The choice of targets for surveillance was made by clients of the Israeli […]
SHARE Foundation and Balkan Investigative Reporting Network – BIRN, which have been monitoring the state of digital rights and freedoms in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia since 2019, published a report on the violations of human rights and freedoms in […]
The SEE Network of civil society organisations is inviting all interested participants to join the first online discussion and knowledge share on the state of digital rights in Southern and Eastern Europe on July 1. At the July 1 event (3pm – 4.30pm, CET) BIRN […]
