Our work
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.
Filter resources
-
Netherlands: legislation for forced decryption announced
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Zwang zur Entschlüsselung geplant | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Niederlande_Zwang_zur_Entschluesselung_geplant?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] The Dutch Minister of Justice has sent a letter to the House of Representatives announcing a proposal for legislation that will allow the police to force a suspect to decrypt information that is under investigation in a case of terrorism or […]
Read more
-
German government proposes extended tracking of Internet users
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Regierung plant ausufernde Überwachung der Internetuser | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Deutsche_Regierung_plant_ausufernde_Ueberwachung_der_Internetuser?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] The German government is proposing an amendment to the Telecommunication Act that would allow law enforcement and intelligence agencies to extensively identify Internet users, without any court order or reasonable suspicion of a crime. The proposed amendment comes as […]
Read more
-
Danish opposition wants to abandon the illegal medicine site blocking
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Dänemark: Opposition will Netzsperren gegen illegalen Medikamentenhandel aufgeben | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Daenemark_Opposition_will_Netzsperren_gegen_illegalen_Medikamentenhandel_aufgeben?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] A majority outside the Danish government parties proposes to abandon blocking access to websites selling illegal medicine. The law (a new revision of the laws regulating selling of medicine etc.) allowing blocking of these sites was passed in […]
Read more
-
ENDitorial: What could possibly go wrong?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Was soll denn schon schiefgehen? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_ENDitorial_Was_soll_denn_schon_schiefgehen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] With the discussions on the proposed General Data Protection Regulation in full swing and the first published opinions of some European Parliament Committees, several themes of proposed changes emerge. One of these can be paraphrased as “we shouldn’t bother controllers […]
Read more
-
Do we really want to put the ITU in charge of cybersecurity?
Today, the German news site Golem published an article revealing that the ITU left the access to its newslog as good as unprotected. Is this really the institution that should be regulating the internet and be in charge of cybersecurity for the entire world? The following text is a translation of an article on the […]
Read more
-
EDRi member FoeBuD becomes digitalcourage
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi-Mitglied FoeBuD bekommt neuen Namen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_EDRi-Mitglied_FoeBuD_bekommt_neuen_Namen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121121] EDRi member FoeBuD (Germany) has changed its name to “digitalcourage” on 17 November 2012, on the occasion of the organisation’s 25th anniversary. The old name had been a quickly constructed satirical acronym – a parody on the bureaucratic and cumbersome language […]
Read more
-
CleanIT looking for the question that it was seeking an answer to
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [CleanIT oder Wie war noch mal die Frage? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_CleanIT_oder_Wie_war_noch_mal_die_Frage?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Few people know that CleanIT was born from another failed project – the European Commission-led “dialogue on illegal online content”. In that “dialogue”, the European Commission (DG HOME) sought to persuade Internet hosting companies to delete websites containing […]
Read more
-
EDRi comments on the collective rights management draft directive
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi zur geplanten Richtlinie über kollektive Rechteverwertung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_EDRi_zur_geplanten_Richtlinie_ueber_kollektive_Rechteverwertung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 11 July 2012, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market. EDRi warmly welcomes […]
Read more
-
Surprise! Facebook doesn't Like the Data Protection Regulation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Überraschung: Facebook hält nichts von der geplanten Datenschutzverordnung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Ueberraschung_Facebook_haelt_nichts_von_der_geplanten_Datenschutzverordnung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Facebook has recently issued a 40-page lobbying paper with the company’s position on the proposed European data protection regulation, opposing several of its provisions. “The new legislative framework should focus on encouraging best practice by companies like Facebook […]
Read more
-
DP Regulation to accidentally introduce voluntary “three strikes”?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bringt uns die Datenschutz-Verordnung unabsichtlich “Three Strikes”? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Bringt_uns_die_Datenschutz-Verordnung_unabsichtlich_Three_Strikes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] The European Commission proposed a new framework for protection of personal data in the EU earlier this year. While it has been the subject of probably more lobbying than any other piece of legislation in this history of modern […]
Read more
-
Abandoning safe harbours: Hungarian online freedoms at risk
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ungarn: Die Freiheit des Internets steht auf dem Spiel | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Ungarn_Die_Freiheit_des_Internets_steht_auf_dem_Spiel?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Restrictions on freedom of expression and on access to information would be two repercussions of recently drafted changes to Hungary’s Criminal Code. The law would allow the government to “block” and potentially delete online material if hosting […]
Read more
-
EDPS Opinion on EC communication on cloud computing
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDSB-Stellungnahme zu Cloud Computing | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_EDSB-Stelungnahme_zu_Cloud_Computing?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 16 November 2012, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published his opinion on the European Commission’s communication on “Unleashing the potential of Cloud Computing in Europe” issued on 27 September 2012, in which the Commission proposes key actions and policy steps […]
Read more