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EDRi is the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online. We work to to challenge private and state actors who abuse their power to control or manipulate the public. We do so by advocating for robust and enforced laws, informing and mobilising people, promoting a healthy and accountable technology market, and building a movement of organisations and individuals committed to digital rights and freedoms in a connected world.
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ePrivacy for Children: What is Data Protection Culture?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) attracted widespread attention and comment in recent weeks when it came into force on 25 May 2018. Having taken several years to get from being proposed by the European Commission to entering into force, the GDPR has been designed as a concerted, holistic and unifying effort to regulate personal […]
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Litigation against the Danish government over data retention
Despite two rulings from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in 2014 and 2016 against general and undifferentiated (blanket) data retention, a majority of EU Member States still have national data retention laws in place. Denmark is one these Member States.
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Wiretapping & data access by foreign courts? Why not!
After the European Commission published two new legislative proposals for law enforcement authorities to be able to reach across EU borders to have access to data directly from service providers, the EU Member States started working on this new “e-evidence” package. The proposal has so far become the object of wide-spread criticism from service providers, […]
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Stop the Censorship Machine and Save Your Internet!
Join the fight against the EU's Censorship Machine!
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EU Censorship Machine: Legislation as propaganda?
The provisions are so controversial that supporters in the European Parliament have resorted to including purely political – and legally meaningless – "safeguards" in the text as a way of getting the proposal adopted.
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LEAK: France & Germany demand more censorship from internet companies
Policy makers put pressure on the EU to enact legislation for online platforms like Facebook, but also for small companies, to be legally required to engage in more and quicker privatised and unaccountable censorship.
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EDRi’s leadership transition: Back to the future…
Challenges to digital rights will not decrease – on the contrary, the speed with which technology is integrating into every part of our lives is making it increasingly difficult to ensure that rights and freedoms are respected from the outset.
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Xnet: Opposing guarded access to institutional information
Xnet brought up questions about the compliance of the Spanish Data Protection Agency's work with the new Data Protection Regulation.
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Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte: Legal challenge against Bavarian Police Act
EDRi observer Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) is preparing a joint constitutional complaint to be brought before the German Constitutional Court against the newly passed Bavarian Police Act (PAG)
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Belgium Constitutional Court decision on the concept of incitement to terrorism
On the 15 March, the Constitutional Court of Belgium issued judgement 31/2018 on the action for the annulment of the law of 3 August 2016 containing various provisions in the fight against terrorism.
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Your ePrivacy is nobody else’s business
The right to privacy is a fundamental right for every individual, enshrined in international human rights treaties. This right is being particularly threatened by political and economic interests, which are having a deep impact on freedom of expression, democratic participation and personal security.
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Join the coordinated calls against EU’s Censorship Machine
Several organisations in different European countries have picked up their phones and mobilised against article 13 of the copyright Directive.
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