The Taking of Ryanair Flight 4978
- January 31, 2022
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
A Ryanair flight departed from Athens for Vilnius with a target of the authoritarian Belarus government on board. A bogus bomb plot communicated by email led to an unscheduled landing in Minsk. Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich and his Russian girlfriend,…
Europol Ordered to Purge Vast Trove of Personal Data
- January 15, 2022
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The European Data Protection Supervisor has been on the heels of Europol over the data retention practices of the law enforcement agency for a few years. The chase came to an end earlier this month when Europol was ordered to…