EDRi-gram, 8 September 2021
In the first post-summer edition of the EDRi-gram, we are excited to announce EDRi's new staff members who have recently become part of the team. Join us in welcoming Fenya Fischler, who will be our Membership and Community Officer & Belén Luna, our new Campaigns Officer! We are also celebrating a big milestone in our signature collection to ban biometric mass surveillance as 60 000 people have signed the #ReclaimYourFace petition (hurray)
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Intensified surveillance at EU borders: EURODAC reform needs a radical policy shift
In an open letter addressed to the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 34 organisations protecting the rights of people on the move, children and...
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EFF to Council of Europe: Flawed Cross Border Police Surveillance Treaty Needs Fixing
EDRi member Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF) has joined European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), and other civil society organizations in...
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EU: €5 million for new wiretapping technologies
The European Commission has made €5 million available for research projects that aim to help law enforcement authorities maintain the ability to intercept telecommunications – something which is...
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UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds the regime for bulk communications data to be incompatible with EU law
The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal issued a declaration in EDRi member Privacy International's challenge to the bulk communications data regime, finding UK legislation to be incompatible with EU...
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How a rotten Apple (and bad legislation) could spoil our private communications
In August 2021, Apple announced significant changes to their privacy settings for messaging and cloud services, only to “pause” it in early September. Earlier this summer, the European Parliament...
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CJEU in surprise judgment: zero rating is illegal under EU law
Europe’s highest court has put an end to a long-standing legal battle around the EU’s Net Neutrality Regulation. In a landmark judgement published last week, the Court of...
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The deterrent effect of the Julian Hessenthaler case: Criminal prosecution must not lead to diminished freedom of opinion
At the start of the trial against security adviser Julian Hessenthaler, who played a key role in the making of the so-called Ibiza video, 15 Austrian and international...
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Facebook’s dominance makes it difficult to question the truth
What we as a society understand as true is changeable, and questioning the truth can only be done with a healthy public debate. But the dominance of the...
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Move fast and break Big Tech’s power
The surveillance-based business model of the dominant technology companies is based on extracting as much personal information and profiling as possible to target individuals, on- and offline. Over time, Big...
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Who, What, Why? Your guide to all things ECI! #ReclaimYourFace
Calling all digital rights heroes: EDRi needs your support! As part of the Reclaim Your Face campaign, we are running a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban biometric...
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Romani rights and biometric mass surveillance
The rights of Romani people should be an important topic for anyone that cares about digital rights. In this blog, hear from experts in Roma, Sinti and digital...
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EDRi submits response to the European Commission AI adoption consultation
Today, 3rd of August 2021, European Digital Rights (EDRi) submitted its response to the European Commission’s adoption consultation on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA).
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Can the EU Digital Services Act contest the power of Big Tech’s algorithms?
A progressive report on the Digital Services Act (DSA) adopted by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in the European Parliament in July is...
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Europe’s Data Retention Saga and its Risks for Digital Rights
It seems that despite several Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decisions in this area, the data retention saga is unlikely to come to an end...
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Member in the Spotlight: Xnet
EDRi's member Xnet is an activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and networked democracy.
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An unhealthy diet of targeted ads
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Companies selling diet programmes are using tests to lure users. Those tests encourage users to share sensitive personal data, including about their mental health. But what happens to the data?
Click here to learn how the diet industry exploits our data.
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How to make your voice heard?
Ella Jakubowska, Policy Advisor, EDRi
As an EU citizen it can be hard to make your voice heard about the things that matter to you. That’s where the ECIs come in. They are a unique process – somewhere in the middle of signing an online petition and voting in an election.
Watch here to see how you can take action now to ban biometric mass surveillance.
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Evading facial recognition
EDRi member, Privacy International
EDRi’s Campaigns and Communications Manager, Andreea Belu, is speaking with EDRi member Privacy International, discussing how hard it is to guarantee that tools built to allow people to evade facial recognition will actually work.
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Demand an end to the targeted surveillance of Human Rights Defenders
Amnesty International
Digital attacks against human rights defenders, journalists and civil society are on the rise. Their digital devices are hacked they can be spied on, silenced, and intimidated. This must stop.
Events
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Automating Injustice
Join Fair Trials on 9 September to discuss their new report, Automating Injustice, on the use of these systems and their harmful impact. Speakers with first-hand experience of...
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Data for Policy 2021
The sixth International Data for Policy Conference will take place in London in September 2021. The conference series is the premier global forum for multiple disciplinary and cross-sector...
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Big Brother Film Festival
EDRi's member IuRe is organising a film festival on digital freedoms and the impact of technology on our lives.
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Summit “The future of our digital world”
Covid-19 forced us all to rethink our digital presence. What did we learn about our dependence on online platforms? Who makes the rules of our digital realm? And...
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Fundamental Rights Forum 2021
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has launched their call for proposals to host a session at the Fundamental Rights Forum 2021 (RightsForum21). This year they are...
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“Cultural Flow (s) and Mobility in the Age of Media Convergence”
EDRi's member Alternatif Bilişim hopes to come together with you around the following or other themes at the 5th New Media Studies National Congress, which will be held...
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FIfF Conference 2021 – Self-determination in digital spaces
Because you only see those in the light, you can't see those in the dark. Self-determination in digital spaces, Munich, 12.-14. November 2021
Jobs
EDRi | Impact documentation specialist (consultant) | Remote | 20.09.2021
Digital Freedom Fund | Internal Decolonising Processes Consultancy | Remote | 01.10.2021
NOYB | Mid-level and senior lawyers; Full Stack Developer; Legal Trainees | Vienna | various
EDRi | English proofreaders & EU languages translators (Volunteering) | Remote | until filled
Ranking Digital Rights | Technology Manager | Remote | until filled
EDPS | Officials, Contract Agents, National Experts, Traineeship | Remote | until filled
Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte | Legal trainees & more | Germany | various
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager, Movement Communications, Movement Advocacy Community Manager & more | Remote | until filled
Mozilla | Media and Graphics Engineering Manager, Senior Project Manager & more | multiple locations | until filled