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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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ENDitorial: The fake fight against fake news
The new danger is no longer yellow, but red once more: fake news. It helped getting Trump elected. It paved the highway to Brexit. Even local European elections are not safe. The greatest danger to our democracy in modern times must be fought by all possible means.
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EP Plenary on the Copyright Directive – Who voted what?
Many of you have been wondering who voted for and who voted against JURI's mandate to enter into negotiations with the EU Council on the Copyright Directive on 5 July.
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Civil society calls for the protection of privacy in ePrivacy
On the 13th of July, EDRi, together with Privacy International, IT-Politisk Forening and Access Now sent a letter to the TELE Working Party of the EU Council regarding the dangers for privacy protections associated with the latest proposals brought forward by the Austrian Council Presidency. The letter comments the developments and argues that such changes […]
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Danish High Court ruling on data retention use and file sharing cases
On 7 May 2018, the Eastern High Court in Denmark delivered a ruling that internet service providers (ISPs) are not required to disclose subscriber information in file sharing cases.
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German police raids privacy group’s premises
In the early morning of 20 June 2018, German police forces raided several locations – the headquarters of the privacy group Zwiebelfreunde, and the homes of three of its board members, as well as the association OpenLab, which is part of EDRi member Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Augsburg.
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ENDitorial: The Commission’s new filtering adventure
In September 2017, the European Commission adopted a “Communication” on illegal content online, full of demands that somebody – but not them and not the Member States – should do something to fight illegal content online. With this move, the European Commission managed to generate some good publicity for itself.
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Press Release: EU Parliamentarians support an open, democratic debate on Copyright Directive
EU Parliamentarians decided today, 5 July 2018, that the initial text proposed as the Copyright Directive Reform needs to be re-opened for edits. This will allow the 751 MEPs to propose amendments in September and call for the deletion of the notorious Article 13.
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How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia
Wikimedia is an integral part of a large movement of civil society stakeholders, technologists, creators, and human rights defenders, who all recognize the importance of a free and open web for culture, progress, and democracy. Our movement is working to promote freedom online for the benefit of all. Our efforts in this public policy realm […]
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Re-Deconstructing upload filters proposal in the copyright Directive
This week we have published a new analysis of the proposal for upload filters in the Copyright Directive proposal. The paper is a new paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of relevant parts in the text adopted by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (JURI Committee). The work complements our first analysis of the initial proposal by […]
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Action plan against the first obligatory EU internet filter
Many feared (and some hoped) that the European Parliament’s JURI Committee vote on the 20th of June would be the end of our campaign, as well as the end of the open internet. Not so fast, the censorship machine is not a done deal!
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Key modifications in the Whistleblowers Directive proposal
The fact that the European Commission has drafted a proposal for a Directive for the protection of whistleblowers is welcome news. It is the result of the prolonged efforts of many activist organisations and several EU policy-makers, particularly in the European Parliament.
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NCC publishes a report on tech companies’ use of “dark patterns”
Today, the Norwegian Consumer Council (NNC), a consumers group active on the field of digital rights, has published a report on how default settings and “dark patterns” are used by techs companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft to nudge users towards privacy intrusive options.
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