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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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EU Consultation on future internet regulation – have your say!
The European Commission has launched a consultation on the role of “Internet platforms” – which it basically defines as pretty much any online services you can think of! The consultation is of crucial importance because it will help define the rules that govern how you use the Internet. It will be crucial for new rules […]
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TiSA Resolution: document pool
Last update: 4 February 2016. The European Parliament is planning to adopt a non-legislative resolution on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). The TiSA Resolution will be a political statement from the Parliament. This means that the European Commission, which is in charge of negotiating this trade agreement on behalf of the European Union (EU) […]
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France enacts sweeping legislation limiting fundamental freedoms
On 13 November time stopped in France and around the world as the heart of Paris was attacked. One hundred and thirty people were killed while enjoying dinners with friends, celebrating birthdays, and dancing at a concert. The French government, with the support of most of the population and political groups, rapidly declared a state […]
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EU Council on Data Retention: “Can we please just have it back?”
One and a half years after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Data Retention Directive, the idea of having an EU data retention instrument is back on the table. On 8 September 2015, officials from the European Commission (EC) told EDRi that, despite the evidence that we provided of the […]
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EDRi represented at the AU-EU Civil Society Seminar on Human Rights
On 21-22 November 2015, EDRi participated in the African Union-European Union Civil Society Seminar on AU-EU Human Rights Dialogue in Kigali, Rwanda. Civil society representatives had the task of making recommendations on freedom of expression to the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU).
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EDPS Opinion: Effective data protection needed for “big data”
On 19 November 2015, the European Data Protection Supervisor published an Opinion on the challenges of “big data”. The Opinion is entitled “A call for transparency, user control, data protection by design and accountability”. The title alone shows how extensive and complicated the issue of big data really is, and squeezing all of these issues […]
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FOIA request confirms data protection is not a barrier to trade
As the EU works to reform its data protection rules, it is concurrently negotiating various high-profile trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). One of the most trending topics in both the EU data protection reform and the trade agenda are so-called “data flows”.
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The Popcorn Time whack a mole continues
EDRi-gram previously reported that two Danish citizens were arrested and charged with “distributing information and instructions about illegal content” for publishing a website with information about the popular culture sharing tool Popcorn Time, which does not even contain links to infringing content. Now the content industry’s Dutch copyright enforcement body BREIN has pushed two Dutch […]
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ENDitorial: After Paris – selling freedom for security
Shortly after the Paris attacks on 13 November 2015, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland stated: “Terrorists can’t destroy our democracies, only we can do that”. Shortly after the Paris attacks, European Parliament adopted amendments to its Report on “the prevention of radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations”, demanding […]
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European Internet Forum – untransparent and dangerous
The European Internet Forum will finally be launched on 3 December by the European Commission. The purpose of the initiative is to fight terrorism by large online companies doing things that seem like they might be useful to fight terrorism. “It is fanciful to the point of being childish to believe that online giants are […]
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EDRi’s press review 2015
JANUARY 21/01 Some French want a Patriot Act, but they have something even tougher (globalpost) 21/01 Eurovision tellybods: Yes, you heard right – net neutrality (The Register) 21/01 EBU urges European net neutrality (Digital TV Europe) 21/01 Some French want a Patriot Act, but they have something even tougher (globalpost) 22/01 Calls for European ISPs […]
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Netherlands: Preliminary questions on blocking Pirate Bay access
On 13 November 2015, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) with regards to blocking access to The Pirate Bay. The questions derive from a lengthy judicial procedure between a Dutch copyright enforcement organisation the BREIN foundation and two Internet access providers Ziggo […]
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