EDRi-gram, 16 February 2023
In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we invite you to join us in celebrating EDRi’s 20th birthday by reading our impact journey and sending us your wishes and vision for the future of digital rights. In our digital rights news updates, we are looking at the Serbian government’s second attempt to legalise biometric mass surveillance. We are also exploring how TikTok’s new feature will use your emotions to make even more profit.
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EDRi 2.0: The European Digital Rights network turns 20
This year, EDRi turns 20, marking two decades of building a movement of NGOs, experts, advocates, technologists, academics and impacted communities. Together, we have been defending and advancing...
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Is the EU protecting people from Pegasus spyware?
Spyware is an extremely invasive surveillance tool and a global threat to human rights and democracy. Since the initial Pegasus Project revelations, we’ve learned that governments and private...
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TikTok’s “Focused View”: the creepy new feature aims to monetise your emotions
Ever heard of TikTok’s “Focused View”? With this new feature launched in October 2022, TikTok claims it can track your emotions to sell ads. We have our doubts...
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TrustPid: Baking ad tracking into the internet infrastructure
A consortium of Europe’s largest telecommunications operators (telcos) has proposed a new kind of tracking ads system to challenge commercial surveillance heavyweights like Google and Facebook. The new...
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Emotion (Mis)Recognition: is the EU missing the point?
The European Union is on the cusp of adopting a landmark legislation, the Artificial Intelligence Act. The law aims to enable an European AI market which guarantees safety,...
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SERBIA: Government retracts again on biometric surveillance
Another attempt to legalise mass biometric surveillance in Serbia was ditched by the government in a sudden U-turn just as 2022 was drawing to a close. In a...
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#ProtectNotSurveil: EU must ban AI uses against people on the move
As the European Parliament regulates the most harmful AI technologies, a coalition of civil society calls on the EU to #ProtectNotSurveil people on the move.
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EU to provide training on “covert techniques” to abusive police forces
The European Police College is to train a host of states with miserable human rights records on the use of “covert techniques in forensics and mobile telecommunications” and...
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EU Member States use new technologies to push people at the borders back
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Events
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Digital Policy Leadership Summit
The Summit will be a two-day community event focused on supporting emerging policy leaders. The event will bring together experienced policy practitioners with those seeking to deepen and...
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ISLC 2023 Conference
ISLC-CONF is a discussion-based academic conference. The purpose is to activate a discussion – and new lines of research – on all the most innovative topics that link new...
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Workshop: Digital participation and digital rights in the European public space: a focus on youth.
This session brings together perspectives on citizens' digital participation, with a specific focus on young people and digital rights in the European public deliberation forum.
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DMA stakeholders workshops
The Commission intends to organise a number of technical workshops with interested stakeholders to receive their views on specific issues and questions that may arise in relation to...
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Psychosocial Circles Now Open!
Team CommUNITY is happy to announce the Spring enrollment of three psychosocial “circles” - a series of weekly virtual private gatherings, led by mental health professionals, that provide...
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Call for participation for re:publica Berlin 2023: CASH, the festival for the digital society
Join the discussion about what does cash means to us and how does it impact the climate emergency or the protection of human rights. A different way of...
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3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24) – Call for papers
Find out what you need to do to present your paper at the next International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation.
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Joining the dots: Practices and Imaginaries for Post-Fossil Cultures
As cultural organisations, what do we mean when we talk about sustainability? ENCC annual conference will go beyond the catch-all keyword to highlight specific intersections between culture, ecology,...
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Freedom not Fear 1-4 September 2023
Freedom not Fear (fnf) is an annual self-organised conference on privacy and digital rights. People from all across Europe meet and work towards more freedom in the digitalised...
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MozFest House
MozFest House is a local extension of MozFest, the premiere gathering for activists, artists, technologists and educators in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world....
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Movement Lawyering and Abolition of Digital Policing
DFF’s third Speaker Series will run through end 2022 and beginning 2023. Through conversations between preeminent experts deploying an anti-colonial lens, it will explore resistance against tech...
Jobs
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EDRi is looking for dispute resolution and human resources professionals (temporary consultancy, on a retainer basis)
In 2021, EDRi members adopted a new Complaint Procedure to handle potential future conflicts and allegations of abuse of power, discrimination, bullying, bad working conditions, and...
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Call for Nomination – EDRi Board elections 2023
EDRi General Assembly will this year elect two Board members to replace two outgoing Board members. EDRi is looking for interested candidates to become a member of the EDRi...
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EDRi is looking for a Campaigns Officer (2 year position)
EDRi is looking for a Campaigns Officer to join EDRi’s team in Brussels. This is a unique opportunity to help shape ongoing and future campaigns of the EDRi...
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Homo Digitalis is hiring for Director on AI & Human Rights related issues
Homo Digitalis was established in 2018 and is the first and only hitherto digital rights organization in Greece. Its vision is a fair, open and responsible digital age,...
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Eticas is hiring for a Global business development lead
Eticas is a pioneer in the identification of algorithmic vulnerabilities and AI-powered technology, and in the protection of people in technology processes. Global leaders in Ethics as a...
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Democracy Reporting International is hiring for a Programme Finance Coordinator
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) is a non-partisan, independent, not-for-profit organisation registered in Berlin. DRI promotes political participation of citizens, accountability of state bodies, and the development of democratic...
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The Greater Internet Freedom (GIF) project is hiring for a Lead Researcher
The lead researcher will spearhead and manage the research initiative along with the GIF team. They will liaise with the research advisory board, coordinate, and conduct the research...
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Systemic Justice is hiring for various positions
Systemic Justice works to radically transform how the law works for communities fighting for racial, social, and economic justice. Centring affected communities in joint litigation, Systemic Justice will...
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AlgorithmWatch is hiring for Head of Fundraising
AlgorithmWatch is a human rights organization based in Berlin and Zurich. Evaluating the social impact of algorithmic decision-making (ADM) and AI-based systems, it is dedicated to ensuring that...
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Digitalcourage is hiring for Organisational Management
Digitalcourage e.V. has been campaigning for civil rights, data protection and a world worth living in the digital age since 1987. It is independent and non-profit and is...
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Global Disinformation Index is hiring for a Chief impact Officer
Disinformation has become a business. Today’s internet business models reward engagement above all else. These models monetise attention without considering the quality of the content garnering that attention,...
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Fair Trials is hiring for a Legal and Policy Officer
Fair Trials is the global criminal justice watchdog, campaigning for fairness, equality and justice, to change policies, support strategic litigation, reform policies and develop international standards and best...
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Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring for Senior EU Public Policy Specialist (m/f/d)
Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world. Through various projects, chapters, and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia...
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Access Now is hiring for a Platform Engagement Coordinator
Access Now is a growing international human rights organisation dedicated to defending and extending the digital rights of users at risk around the world, including issues of privacy,...
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Digital Action is hiring for a Global Campaigns Manager
Digital Action is a globally connected campaigning organisation established in 2019 to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats. We are collaborative campaigners, catalysing movements that will...
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The FORD FOUNDATION is hiring for Program Officer, Technology and Society
The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than 80 years it has worked with visionary people on the front-lines of social change worldwide, guided...
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Sovereign Tech Fund is hiring for a Communications Manager
The Sovereign Tech Fund's mission is to promote security, innovation and competitiveness and to create a stable digital foundation for participation and democracy.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring for Director of Major Gifts
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through...