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October 15, 2020 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Alternatives to dominant digital services

Consumer and citizen groups continue to have serious concerns about Google Fitbit takeover

Regulators investigating Google’s takeover of Fitbit are reportedly seeking commitments from Google to allow them to clear this deal. It is widely recognised that this takeover raises serious competition and privacy concerns and risks harming citizens and consumers in several markets including wearables, advertising and digital health.

December 14, 2021 · Blogs | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Has the Parliament effectively wielded the Digital Services Act to challenge platform power? The verdict is, somewhat.

Today, the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) has approved its much-anticipated report on the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA affects how intermediaries like Google and Amazon regulate and influence user activity on their platforms, including people's ability to exercise their rights and freedoms online. The DSA also aims at limiting the negative impact of the most powerful online platforms on people and puts limits on how EU Member States can interfere with people’s free expression online.

December 15, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation | Transparency

Digital Services Act: EU Parliament’s key committee rejects a filternet but concerns remain

The European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) is a big deal. It's the most significant reform of Europe’s internet platform legislation in twenty years and the EU Commission has proposed multiple new rules to address the challenges brought by the increased use of services online. EU members of Parliament (MEPs) showed that they listened to civil society voices: Even though the key committee on internal market affairs (IMCO) did not follow the footsteps of the ambitious DSA reports from last year, MEPs took a stance for the protection of fundamental rights.

March 9, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Building the biometric state: Police powers and discrimination

This report examines the development and deployment of biometric identification technologies by police and border forces in Europe, and warns that the increasing use of the technology is likely to exacerbate existing problems with racist policing and ethnic profiling.

December 15, 2020 · Highlights | Press releases | Open internet and inclusive technology | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices

‘A for effort’: European Commission DSA/DMA proposal falls short of the systemic change needed to rein in Big Tech power

The Commission’s proposal is an important step but falls short of putting forward an ambitious plan to break free from the centralised platform economy that defines people’s online experiences today.

September 10, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Down with (discriminating) systems

Amidst a particularly hectic time for digital rights policy in Europe, there remains a large elephant in the room.

May 6, 2024 · Document pools | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards

Resist Europol Document Pool

This document pool gathers all the relevant documentation regarding Europol’s powers and legislative reforms, critical analysis and research as well as tools for action.

November 23, 2023 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Digital sustainability | Equal access to the internet | Platform regulation

New paper calls for digital public spaces

In a newly published paper, Zuzanna Warso, a human rights lawyer and a Director of Research at EDRi member Open Future (OF), explains why establishing Digital Public Space is necessary for the realisation of digital rights. Keep reading to learn why.

May 3, 2023 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Free Software Foundation Europe

Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software. These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and privacy.

September 8, 2021 · Highlights | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Intensified surveillance at EU borders: EURODAC reform needs a radical policy shift

In an open letter addressed to the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 34 organisations protecting the rights of people on the move, children and digital rights including European Digital Rights (EDRi) urge policymakers to radically change the direction of the EURODAC reform – the European Union (EU) database storing asylum seekers’ and migrants’ personal data - in order to respect fundamental rights and international law. 

January 27, 2023

DMA stakeholders workshops

The Commission intends to organise a number of technical workshops with interested stakeholders to receive their views on specific issues and questions that may arise in relation to the specific implementing measures by gatekeepers that are to ensure effective compliance with the DMA.