Digital evidence expert and public policy analyst Peter Sommer looks back at nearly three decades working as an intermediary between the public and the secret world.

Thanks to the AI hype, for perhaps the first time ever, the wider public might get to monitor and address technological & operational transformation in Signals Intelligence as it unfolds.

Why the Constitutional Court of Austria scrapped government spyware & street surveillance.

The Dutch secret services share data with foreign services far too easily. Better legal and internal safeguards are essential.

How the Norwegian oversight body mediates between the intelligence services and the public.

New report by the European Network Against Racism shows ostensibly neutral police tools could disproportionately impact and further disadvantage racialised communities.

The key concern with artificial intelligence is not (only) its potency but its inability to seek justice.

A veteran’s perspective on European intelligence oversight: where it’s been, where it’s going, and why we need to internationalise it.

How the big data analytics company focuses on supporting rather than displacing human decision-making.

One of the counsels for the applicant in Centrum för Rättvisa v. Sweden at the European Court of Human Rights explains the case against the Swedish bulk collection regime and what the pending judgment means for civil liberties in the digital age for all of Europe.

AI can augment human creativity and help keep societies safe, but only if issues of bias and transparency are adequately addressed.

The former Inspector-General of Intelligence & Security of New Zealand on her experience with setting up a civil society focus group.

Intelligence oversight needs stronger regulatory support to effectively monitor increasingly international intelligence practice.

Editors-in-Chief Thorsten Wetzling and Eric Kind explain why we started about:intel and what we are trying to achieve with it.