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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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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
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Automated suspicion: The EU’s new travel surveillance initiatives

9 July 2020
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Data Protection, Immigration Enforcement and Fundamental Rights: What the EU’s Regulations on Interoperability Mean for People with Irregular Status

Snooping and surveillance
18 November 2019
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Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex

Borders and frontiers
31 August 2017
Observatories

EU: Travel surveillance and passenger profiling

Snooping and surveillance
20 January 2017
Projects

Case 1: Europol

Secrecy and transparency
28 March 2014
Reports

Eurodrones, Inc.

11 February 2014
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The Atlas of Migration in Europe

31 May 2013
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Back from the battlefield: domestic drones in the UK

27 May 2013
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Counter-terrorism, ‘policy laundering’ and the FATF: legalising surveillance, regulating civil society

7 February 2012
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The Shape of Things to Come

8 June 2009
Reports

NeoConOpticon: The EU Security-Industrial Complex

17 February 2009
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Border Wars and Asylum Crimes

9 November 2006
Reports

The War on Freedom and Democracy

8 May 2006
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Arming Big Brother: the EU’s Security Research Programme

5 April 2006
Reports

Countering Civil Rights

10 August 2005
Reports

Data Protection in the Police Sector in Europe: a Failure to Regulate

22 June 2005
Reports

Journalism, Civil Liberties and the “War on Terrorism”

3 May 2005
Reports

Secrecy and Openness in the European Union

7 March 2002
Reports

The activities and development of Europol – towards an unaccountable “FBI” in Europe

7 February 2002
Reports

On Globalisation of Control: Towards an Integrated Surveillance System in Europe

17 November 1999
Reports

Key texts on justice and home affairs, 1976-1993

22 October 1997
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Digitalising discrimination and criminalisation

30 June 2025
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The “security playbook” and migrants’ rights activism

7 October 2024
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Following the roadmap: unmasking the EU’s security AI plans

7 October 2024
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Data exchange, exclusion and denial at the borders

7 October 2024
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Networks of (in)security

7 October 2024
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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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