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Our long-term projects monitor increasing state power through investigative journalism, policy analysis, and more. This work provides a critical foundation for advocacy and campaigns to protect our rights, freedoms and democracy.

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Reports

Networks of (in)security: how global counter-terrorism and security norms threaten civic space and human rights

Borders and frontiers
27 November 2025
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New Technology, Old Injustice: Data-driven discrimination and profiling in police and prisons in Europe

Discrimination and racism Snooping and surveillance
30 June 2025
Bulletins Projects

Outsourcing Borders: Monitoring EU externalisation policy

Borders and frontiers Collusion and crime
19 May 2026
Reports

Networks of (in)security: how global counter-terrorism and security norms threaten civic space and human rights

Borders and frontiers
27 November 2025
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Data Protection Handbook on Asylum and Migration in Europe

Borders and frontiers Resistance and solidarity
31 October 2025
Projects

Border externalisation and technologies of control

8 September 2025
Projects

A watchdog for EU justice and home affairs policies

8 September 2025
Reports

Exporting Borders: Frontex and the Expansion of Fortress Europe in West Africa

Borders and frontiers
10 July 2025
Reports

New Technology, Old Injustice: Data-driven discrimination and profiling in police and prisons in Europe

Discrimination and racism Snooping and surveillance
30 June 2025
Reports

Automating Authority: Artificial intelligence in European police and border regimes

Borders and frontiers
9 April 2025
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ByLock Prosecutions and the Right to Fair Trial in Turkey: The ECtHR Grand Chamber’s Ruling in Yüksel Yalçınkaya v. Türkiye

13 March 2024
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Telling the story of EU border militarization

Borders and frontiers
7 August 2023
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Europe’s techno-borders

Borders and frontiers Snooping and surveillance
10 July 2023
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Frontex and interoperable databases: knowledge as power?

Borders and frontiers Snooping and surveillance
6 February 2023
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Access denied: Secrecy and the externalisation of EU migration control

Borders and frontiers Secrecy and transparency
28 November 2022
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Empowering the police, removing protections: the new Europol Regulation

Snooping and surveillance
10 November 2022
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EU agencies and interoperable databases

10 November 2022
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A clear and present danger: Missing safeguards on migration and asylum in the EU’s AI Act

Borders and frontiers
12 May 2022
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At what cost? Funding the EU’s security, defence, and border policies, 2021–2027

Borders and frontiers
3 May 2022
Reports

Building the biometric state: Police powers and discrimination

Borders and frontiers Discrimination and racism Snooping and surveillance
28 February 2022
Reports

Brexit: Goodbye and hello: The new EU-UK security architecture, civil liberties and democratic control

20 January 2022
Reports

Algorithmic persecution in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown: The FETÖ-Meter system

Snooping and surveillance
25 November 2021
Reports

Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals

Borders and frontiers
29 July 2020
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Digitalising discrimination and criminalisation

30 June 2025
Archive Projects

The “security playbook” and migrants’ rights activism

7 October 2024
Archive Projects

Following the roadmap: unmasking the EU’s security AI plans

7 October 2024
Archive Projects

Data exchange, exclusion and denial at the borders

7 October 2024
Archive Projects

Networks of (in)security

7 October 2024
Archive Projects

Biometric Europe: civil society workshops

19 July 2021
Archive Observatories

Frontex

Borders and frontiers
26 November 2020
Archive Projects

Invisible Borders

1 July 2020
Archive Observatories

Policing the pandemic: COVID-19 and civil liberties

Coercion and control Snooping and surveillance
18 May 2020
Archive Observatories

2001-2015: EU: Public order and reactions to protests

Coercion and control Resistance and solidarity
10 February 2020
Archive Projects

Biometric Europe: imposing digital identities in the name of security

12 December 2019
Archive Projects

EU justice and home affairs agencies

12 December 2019
Archive Observatories

2007-2010: The Stockholm Programme

Secrecy and transparency
25 October 2019
Archive Observatories

2001-2006: S.O.S. Europe: Statewatch Observatory on Surveillance in Europe

Snooping and surveillance
25 October 2019
Archive Observatories

1997-2002: The EU-FBI telecommunications surveillance system

Snooping and surveillance
25 October 2019
Archive Observatories

2001-2009: Observatory in defence of freedom and democracy

Snooping and surveillance
25 October 2019
Archive Observatories

2003-2017: EU Constitution/Lisbon Treaty

Secrecy and transparency
25 October 2019
Archive Observatories

UK: Civil liberties legislation

Secrecy and transparency
25 October 2019
Archive Observatories

2010-2011: UK government civil liberties programme

25 October 2019
Archive Observatories

EU: Interoperability of Justice and Home Affairs databases: a “point of no return”

Secrecy and transparency
24 October 2019
Archive Observatories

EU: Proceedings of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, 1993 – present

Secrecy and transparency
25 May 2017
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