EDRi-gram, 24 March 2021
Human rights mustn’t come second in the race to innovate, they should rather define innovations that better humanity. The European Commission’s upcoming proposal may be the last opportunity to prevent harmful uses of AI-powered technologies, many of which are already marginalising Europe’s racialised communities.
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No faces left to hack: #ReclaimYourFace Now!
We cannot let power-hungry and profit-orientated technologies manipulate our future, take away our dignity and treat us like walking, breathing barcodes. We have the right to exercise our...
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Delete first, think later
The proposed Digital Services Act wants to push online platforms to quickly remove illegal content. But it uses a sledgehammer on a most intricate challenge: moderating online speech....
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116 MEPs agree – we need AI red lines to put people over profit
In light of the upcoming proposal for the regulation of artificial intelligence in Europe, 116 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have written to the European Commission’s leaders...
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EDRi challenges expansion of police surveillance via Prüm
The Prüm framework permits police forces of EU Member States to exchange DNA files, fingerprints, vehicle data via a decentralised system. The European Commission and the Council are...
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This is the EU’s chance to stop racism in artificial intelligence
Human rights mustn’t come second in the race to innovate, they should rather define innovations that better humanity. The European Commission's upcoming proposal may be the last opportunity...
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Czech Big Brother Awards awards worst privacy culprits
EDRi's member IuRe has recognised the most intrusive authorities, companies and technologies for the sixteenth time in a row at the Big Brother Awards. This year's awards were...
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Stop Spying on Asylum Seekers!
How would you feel if the government was literally able to cut off your access to your cash, because your buying habits were deemed suspicious? That's the reality...
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The EU should regulate AI on the basis of rights, not risks
EDRi's member Access Now explains why the upcoming legislative proposal on AI should be a rights-based law, like the GDPR. The European Commission must not compromise our rights...
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Trust is a two-way street: the UK’s digital identity framework
Trust is a two-way street, and while the British government’s digital identity trust framework definitely makes steps in the right direction, those efforts need to be accompanied by...
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Campaign against surveillance: Nobody will tell you when they will follow you
The rapid growth of new technologies has been of “benefit” to secret services. However, it seems that the law has lacked behind showing its inability to reflect the...
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Do: Test your cybersecurity
Producer: Ford Foundation
COVID-19 has changed how we use technology more than ever before, raising the already important issue of cybersecurity within civil society organisations. Try Ford Foundation’s Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of your organisation’s cybersecurity efforts. It only takes one 30-minute sitting.
Listen: What does your face say about you? Phrenology, physiognomy and society
Producer: Privacy International
On the latest episode of EDRi member Privacy International’s Technology pill podcast, Dr Courtney Thompson discusses the history of phrenology and physiognomy and their relationship to modern technologies and culture.
Read: The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool
Producer: WIRED
People’s internet records can contain the apps they have used, the domains they have visited, IP addresses, when internet use starts and finishes, and the amount of data that is transferred to and from a device. While not containing the content of what people are viewing, metadata can still be hugely revealing.
Watch: How Big Tech’s business model hurts journalism
Producer: European Digital Rights
The “Targeted Online: An industry broken by design and by default” publication launched by European Digital Rights this month, was preceded by a press focused presentation of just how the ad tech business model works, how it hurts journalists and what must be done to counter this hostile takeover.
Events
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Online live storytelling event, bringing stories on surveillance and facial recognition from around the world
Coda Live: Panopticon is an online live storytelling event, which brings together stories on surveillance and facial recognition from around the world. The discussion will concentrate on how...
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Virtual Debate: Interoperability in the DMA and DSA
Many MEPs, European SMEs, academics and civil society groups think a stronger focus on interoperability requirements for core digital services can play a key role. Join this event...
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Consumers, competition law, and platform power in the digital economy
The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) is hosting a discussion between Congressman David Cicilline and Member of the European Parliament Stephanie Yon-Courtin on the future of competition law applied to the digital economy and...
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3rd Workshop on obfuscation
TU Delft and Cornell Tech organise the online event Obfuscation strategies which represent creative ways to evade surveillance, protect privacy, improve security; as well as protest, contest, resist...
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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...
Jobs
Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte | Legal, Fundraising and Communications interns | Germany | deadline: various
Digital Freedom Fund | Director | Berlin | deadline: 28.03.2021
BEUC | Digital and Consumer rights Legal Officer | Belgium | deadline: 05.04.2021
Privacy International | Legal Officer | London | deadline: 09.04.2021
noyb | PR/Copywriter; Grants Officer | Vienna | deadline: until filled
Wikimedia Foundation | Lead Program Officer, Community Learning and Evaluation; Lead Communications Specialist; Senior Public Policy Specialist & more | Remote | deadline: until filled
European AI Fund | Programme Officer | Brussels | deadline: until filled
CitizenLab | Government Success Manager; Business Development Lead | Belgium; Germany | deadline: until filled
Mozilla | Associate Researcher, PNI; Senior Researcher | Multiple locations | deadline: until filled
AlgorithmWatch | Senior Policy & Advocacy Advisor | Berlin | deadline: 04.04.2021