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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
 
