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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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German govt and intelligence agencies face penal charges for spying
Penal charges against the German government and US and UK secret services have been filed on 3 February 2014 by three German NGOs – the International League for Human Rights, Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and Digitalcourage. (Digitalcourage and CCC are EDRi members) The criminal complaint is about mass surveillance, illegal covert intelligence activities, violations of […]
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Hacktivists targeted by British spies
According to documents released by Snowden on NSA activities, a secret British division of GCHQ named Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), meant to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies, was targeting the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec. The documents reveal that JTRIG launched a “denial of service” (DDOS) attack (dubbed Rolling Thinder) and other […]
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11 February 2014 – The Day We Fought Back Mass Surveillance
Yesterday, on 11 February 2014, digital rights organizations, civil-society groups, authors, and Internet users across six continents were protesting to demand an end to mass surveillance, in an event initiated and coordinated by EDRi member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – USA. Over 6 000 websites committed to stand with the organizers in this global day […]
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Civil Society Demands an End to Mass Surveillance on “The Day We Fight Back”
Today on the 11th February digital rights organizations, civil-society groups, authors, and Internet users across six continents are protesting to demand an end to mass surveillance. Last summer, NSA contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents detailing the alarming intelligence gathering operations conducted by the US, British, and other partner nations. The revelations that mass surveillance […]
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Civil Society Demands an End to Mass Surveillance on “The Day We Fight Back”
The Day We Fight Back
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Net Neutrality: primary document pool
As the debate about net neutrality is moving forward in the European Parliament we are closely following the proceedings and giving input on all levels along the way. Because of the tight timetable imposed by the European Commission, many of the discussions in the Parliament are happening in ways which make it difficult for parliamentarians, […]
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Bad leadership could kill the open internet in Europe
Bad leadership by just one or two Members of the European Parliament is in danger of killing the open internet in Europe. The Industry Committee (ITRE), which is responsible for the current European Commission proposal on “net neutrality”, is one of the most expert committees in the European Parliament. It has repeatedly identified threats to […]
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We promise. What’s the point?
Maybe, after all of the noise about crazy ideas like “Clean IT” and ACTA, there won’t be any big digital rights files for the incoming European Parliament. Maybe we don’t need to worry about having parliamentarians who understand the internet and digital rights. Maybe there won’t be any relevant proposals anyway. Maybe we don’t need […]
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The promise of democracy – digital rights groups reprogram European elections
A project launched today will give voters an innovative new way to hold the European Parliament to account.However, nothing is for free – as a trade-off citizens must make a promise of their own – to vote in May’s European Parliament elections. The Wepromise.eu project proposes a “Charter of Digital Rights“. Candidates promise to uphold […]
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Dutch Court finds Pirate Bay blocking disproportionate
In a new instalment of the Dutch saga of copyrightholders representative BREIN demanding courts to order ISPs to block The Pirate Bay this mostly worrisome string of court decisions takes a turn for the better: the The Hague Court of Appeals has judged that previous blocking orders that had been granted have been mostly ineffective […]
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The Ukrainian Parliament decides to reject the anti-protest bill
The Ukraine Government’s attempts to censor and restrict freedom of expression and freedom of assembly by a controversial anti-protest legislation has fortunately been stopped by the Ukrainian Parliament on 28 January 2014. In the light of the latest events in Ukraine, in a desperate attempt to curve the protests that have become larger and stronger […]
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EP Committees: Broadly positive votes on net neutrality
In the last two weeks, the three European Parliament Committees have adopted their advisory “opinions” on the European Commission’s proposals on net neutrality – which are part of a wide-ranging Regulation that also covers topics as varied as roaming and spectrum management. These opinions are meant to advise the Committee responsible – the Industry Committee […]
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