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- The many faces of facial recognition in the EU
- Austrian government hacking law is unconstitutional
- Spain: New law threatens internet freedoms
- Online content moderation: Where does the Commission stand?
- Casual attitude in intelligence sharing is troubling
- Letter to Member States calls for safeguards in TCO
- Say “no” to cookies – yet see your privacy crumble?
- Bits of Freedom celebrates its 20th anniversary
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- Facial recognition and fundamental rights 101
- Interoperability: A way to escape toxic online environments
- Shedding light on the Facebook content moderation centre in Athens
- Why privacy is particularly crucial for people with disabilities
- France’s law on hate speech gets a thumbs down
- Serbia: Unlawful facial recognition video surveillance in Belgrade
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- ePrivacy hangs in the balance, but it’s not over yet…
- A privately managed public space?
- Dance. Enjoy. Share. With Care.
- “E-evidence”: Repairing the unrepairable
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- Greece: The new data protection law raises concerns
- Twitter banning political ads – the tip of the iceberg
- Portuguese ISPs ignore telecom regulator’s recommendations
- Danish data retention: Back to normal after major crisis
- Why tech is not “just a tool”
- Hate speech online: Lessons for protecting free expression
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- EU Commissioner candidates spoke: State of play for digital rights
- The sixth attempt to introduce mandatory SIM registration in Romania
- Austrian Passenger Name Records complaint – the key points
- Net neutrality overhaul: 5G, zero-rating, parental control, DPI
- #PrivacyCamp20: Technology and Activism
- TERREG trilogues: Upload or re-upload filters? Eachy peachy.
- Copyright dialogues: The next battleground to prevent upload filters
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- Content regulation – what’s the (online) harm?
- Why weak encryption is everybody’s problem
- Right a wrong: ePrivacy now!
- CJEU on cookies: ‘Consent or be tracked’ is not an option
- CJEU ruling on fighting defamation opens the door for upload filters
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- Portugal: Data retention complaint reaches the Constitutional Court
- Facebook users blocked simply for mentioning a name?
- Why EU passenger surveillance fails its purpose
- PNR complaint advances to the Austrian Federal Administrative Court
- Your mail, their ads. Your rights?
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- CJEU: Public documents could be censored because of copyright
- The Netherlands, aim for a more ambitious copyright implementation!
- Poland challenges copyright upload filters before the CJEU
- How security policy hijacks the Digital Single Market
- E-Commerce: Safeguarding human rights when moderating online content
- Diego Naranjo becomes EDRi’s new Head of Policy
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- Survey: What do you think about the EDRi-gram?
- MS Office 365 banned from German schools over privacy concerns
- “SIN vs Facebook”: First victory against privatised censorship
- LGBTQ+ & digital rights: Technology reinforces societal oppressions
- The first GDPR fines in Romania
- New privacy alliance to be formed in Central and Eastern Europe
- Real Time Bidding: The auction for your attention
- E-Commerce review: Technology is the solution. What is the problem?
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- EDRi-gram on summer break
- Regulating online communications: Fix the system, not the symptoms
- EU worries over the possibility of losing wiretapping powers
- Open letter demands interoperability of the big online platforms
- Fighting online hatespeech: An alternative to mandatory real names
- E-Commerce review: Opening Pandora’s box?
- EU Commission discards criticism of net neutrality enforcement
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- Poland: Banks obliged to explain their credit decisions
- Danish DPA approves Automated Facial Recognition
- German Big Brother Awards – one “winner” reacts and appears
- Greece: Complaint filed against breach of EU data protection law
- EU rushes into e-evidence negotiations without common position
- Fighting defamation online – AG Opinion forgets that context matters
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- Facebook and Google asked to appoint representatives in Serbia
- BEREC workshop: Regulatory action by NRAs and consumer empowerment
- Facebook fails to avoid CJEU judgment on NSA case
- Czech Constitutional Court rejects complaint on data retention
- Captured states – e-Privacy Regulation victim of a “lobby onslaught”
- Our dependency on Facebook – life-threatening?
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- Facebook lies to Dutch Parliament about election manipulation
- Why should we vote in the EU elections?
- Pseudo-counter-terrorism at the cost of human rights?
- ePrivacy: Private data retention through the back door
- Google-Huawei case highlights the importance of free software
- Passenger surveillance brought before courts in Germany and Austria
- Hey Google, where does the path lead?
- EDRi strategic planning: A collective journey towards a strengthened network
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- SIN v Facebook: Tech giant sued over censorship in landmark case
- EU elections – protecting our data to protect us from manipulation
- Turkish civil society: Declaration on the state of the internet
- Facebook’s commitments on ToS: Much ado about nothing?
- Austria: New “responsibility” law will lead to self-censorship
- NGOs urge to guarantee net neutrality in Europe
- It starts with free Pokémon Go, it ends with Bolsonaro
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- Will Serbia adjust its data protection framework to GDPR?
- EU Parliament deletes the worst threats in the TERREG
- Strategic litigation against civil rights violations in police laws
- Protecting personal data world wide: Convention 108+
- Facebook Custom Audience illegal without explicit user consent
- What the YouTube and Facebook statistics aren’t telling us
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- Filters Incorporated
- Terrorist Content Regulation: “Damage control” by LIBE Committee
- Public campaigns on digital rights: Mapping the needs
- UK: Online Harms Strategy must “design in” fundamental rights
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- Censorship machine takes over EU’s internet
- GDPR incompatibility – the blind spot of the copyright debate
- New freedom of information law proposed in North Macedonia
- Google fined 1,5 billion euro for abusive online ad practices
- Letter: Terrorist Content Regulation endangers freedom of expression
- EU Council Presidency outlines future counter-terrorism priorities
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- Record number of calls to the EU Parliament against upload filters
- Join the ultimate Action Week against Article 13
- The art of dodging questions – Facebook’s privacy policies
- FSFE: Publicly funded software has to result in public code
- Women’s rights online: tips for a safer digital life
- What will happen to our memes?
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- ApTI submits complaint on Romanian GDPR implementation
- Call for whistleblowing is not a crime: The case of a peace activist
- Light at the end of the cyber tunnel: New IoT consumer standard
- New UK counter-terrorism law limits online freedoms
- ICANN and GDPR – nowhere near compliance
- Google and IAB: Knowingly enabling intrusive profiling
- Czech BBA: Facebook and iROBOT the worst privacy intruders of 2018
- You cannot post “a bag of bones” on Facebook
- SaveYourInternet.eu – Citizens set to prevent upload filters
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- A study evaluates the net neutrality situation in the EU
- Time for better net neutrality rules
- LIBE Committee analysis: Challenges of cross-border access to data
- EDPB confirms: Privacy Shield is still a shame
- All Cops Are Blind? Context in terrorist content online
- BBA Bulgaria: Parliament wins the title of top privacy violator
- Czech BBA nominates the worst privacy intruders for the 14th time
- EDRi welcomes new Senior Policy Advisor
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- Panoptykon files complaints against Google and IAB
- Austrian postal service involved in a data scandal
- Period tracker apps – where does your data end up?
- noyb files eight strategic complaints on “right to access”
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- EU Member States willing to retain illegal data retention
- We can no longer talk about sex on Facebook in Europe
- Advocate General issues two Opinions on “right to be forgotten”
- Copyright Week 2019: Copyright as a tool of censorship
- Bits of Freedom announces winner of privacy award
- Digital rights as a security objective: Abuses and loss of trust