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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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EDRi-gram 300: Digital rights news from 2025
We are proud to present the 300th edition of the EDRi-gram as an eBook entitled “Digital rights news from 2025”!
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EDRi-gram 300 – Digital rights news from 2025
We are proud to present the 300th edition of the EDRi-gram! Since 2003, the EDRi-gram is reporting on developments across Europe to raise awareness of attacks on freedom of expression and privacy as well as to highlight good news and best practice. The EDRi-gram publishes free speech and privacy advocates’ media stories from across Europe every […]
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Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Internet.org vs. Net Neutrality, Privacy and Security
On 18 May 2015, EDRi signed a joint open letter together with other 64 civil society organisations expressing concerns about Internet.org and asking Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg to defend Net neutrality, Privacy, Security and other rights in relation to Internet.org. You can read the letter below: Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We, the undersigned, share a common […]
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Digital rights at re:publica 2015
The re:publica 2015, one of the biggest digital culture conferences in the world, took place on 5-7 May in Berlin, Germany. Many EDRi members and observers contributed to this year’s event motto “Finding Europe”. We have therefore collected the most exciting talks from our network: Internet censorship around Europe since ACTA (in English) Joe McNamee […]
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Emotion tracking company gets funding from the European Commission
Realeyes is a London based start-up company that tracks people’s facial reactions through webcams and smartphones in order to analyse their emotions. The analysed data is used to help companies maximise the impact of their advertising and market research campaigns. The technology allows the companies to know how consumers feel when they view the video […]
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Slovakia: Mass surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional
Slovakia’s data retention law is now history. On 29 April, the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic ruled that the mass surveillance of citizens is unconstitutional. The decision was made in the context of proceedings initiated by 30 Members of the Parliament on behalf of the European Information Society Institute (EISi), a Slovakia-based think-tank. In […]
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Privacy Cafés launched to improve secure communications in the EP
Ever since the publication of documents from the Snowden archive, which indicate that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (CGHQ) were behind the cyber-attacks on the European institutions, an improvement of the European Parliament’s IT security was to be expected. The report by Civil Liberties Committee Chair Claude Moraes on […]
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You can now become an official EDRi Supporter
You don’t have much time but you want to contribute to the fight for your rights and freedoms? We have launched a “Supporter” status for those motivated individuals who want to support our work for net neutrality, strong privacy protections and a reform of copyright rules in Europe. All the Supporters receive exclusive updates, and […]
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Turkish student sentenced for re-tweeting satirical news
A Turkish university student was sentenced for one year for re-tweeting a satirical article that appeared on “Zaytung”, a popular Turkish website which publishes false and satirical stories in a journalistic style. Meral Tutcali, a student in Anadolu University, was sentenced by the provincial court of Adana to one year in jail for “insulting a […]
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Digital Single Market: A missed opportunity
The European Commission (EC) published its Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy on 6 May 2015. EDRi is thoroughly studying the DSM strategy and its impacts on European citizens’ digital rights. A day before the official publication of the strategy, EDRi issued a press release expressing concerns based on the analysis of the leaked drafts (Draft Communication […]
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Digital Single Market: Will citizens be at the centre of the Commission’s plans?
PRESS RELEASE. The European Commission is expected to publish its Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy tomorrow, 6 May. Based on our analysis of the leaked drafts (Draft Communication and Evidence Note), the strategy is likely to include a number of points that raise concerns regarding, inter alia: Privatised law enforcement We have concerns regarding Commissions’ plans […]
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Open letter on intermediary liability protections in the digital single market
You can download the letter here (pdf). Open letter on intermediary liability protections in the digital single market April 27, 2015 Mr Andrus Ansip Vice-President, Digital Single Market European Commission Berlaymont 1049 Brussels Open letter on intermediary liability protections in the digital single market Dear Vice-President Ansip, As the European Commission (EC) considers action on intermediary […]
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