Results for interoperability

May 29, 2024 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

La Quadrature du Net takes legal action against the French government’s censorship of TikTok in New Caledonia

Through an emergency proceeding (reféré-liberté) filed last week, La Quadrature du Net asked the Conseil d’État (Council of State) to suspend French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s decision to block the TikTok platform in New Caledonia. With this censorship order, the French government struck an unprecedented and particularly serious blow to freedom of expression online, which neither the local context nor the toxicity of the platform can justify in a regime pretending to abide by the rule of law.

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July 10, 2024 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 10 July 2024

This is the last edition of EDRi-gram before we take a (well-deserved) break for the summer. Keeping you updated about the various goings-on in the busy world of digital rights is a toilsome task! Don’t worry, this edition is full of interesting news and recommendations for you to follow up on all summer long. You can start by going through a new document pool by the Resist Europol coalition that brings together all relevant resources you’ll need to understand and contest EU’s securitisation agenda, especially through the seemingly never-ending expansion of the bloc’s agency for law enforcement cooperation. With Hungary taking over the presidency of the Council of the European Union as of last week, EDRi and 47 digital rights, human rights & children’s rights organisations have called for the withdrawal of the draft CSA Regulation proposal. It is high time to say good riddance to a proposal that is not only unfit for addressing the complex issue of child sexual abuse, but would also undermine private and safe online communication for all.

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May 4, 2022 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter highlights the risks to human rights and personal safety when any single person has complete control over policies affecting almost 400 million users. And in this case, that person has repeatedly demonstrated that they do not understand the realities of platform policy at scale.

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December 11, 2020 · Blogs | Press mentions | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Big Tech’s dominance: only laws can limit its power

Big Tech companies like Facebook have grown so large that the U.S. antitrust authority F.T.C. is considering breaking them up. We need laws that limit the power tech firms wields over our lives.

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January 26, 2021

Data for Policy 2021

The sixth International Data for Policy Conference will take place in London in September 2021. The conference series is the premier global forum for multiple disciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the theories, applications and implications of data science innovation in governance and the public sector.

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April 17, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards

Greek Ministry of Asylum and Migration face a record-breaking €175,000 fine for the border management systems KENTAUROS & HYPERION

On 3 April, the Greek Data Protection Authority (DPA) slapped the Ministry of Asylum and Migration with a record-breaking €175,000 fine under the General Data Protection Regulation for the border management systems KENTAUROS and HYPERION. The DPA’s investigation started back in 2022, following a strategic complaint filed by the EDRi member Homo Digitalis and its partners in Greece.

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June 30, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Inclusive technologies

Five reasons to claim victory on the EU Digital COVID Certificate

On 8 June 2021, the European Parliament voted on the interinstitutional compromise text on the regulation(s) on the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EU DCC, also known as the Digital Green Certificate and the European Green Pass). The proposed legislation regulates the “framework for the issuance, verification and acceptance of interoperable certificates on vaccination, testing and recovery” with aim of facilitating free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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August 2, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Alternatives to dominant digital services

Regulating Big Tech in Europe with the Digital Services Act & Digital Markets Act

The EU’s latest flagship laws Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) are in force, the regulatory structure is (slowly) being set up, the first Big Tech companies are suing in court, and the European Commission throws a party (yes, really). But what does this mean for people in their role as platform users and what’s coming next?

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September 30, 2020 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Statewatch

Statewatch undertakes and encourages the publication of critical research and investigative journalism in the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness.

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March 11, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Stuck under a cloud of suspicion: Profiling in the EU

As facial recognition technologies are gradually rolled out in police departments across Europe, anti-racism groups blow the whistle on the discriminatory over-policing of racialised communities linked to the increasing use of new technologies by law enforcement agents.

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August 2, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

Can the EU Digital Services Act contest the power of Big Tech’s algorithms? 

A progressive report on the Digital Services Act (DSA) adopted by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in the European Parliament in July is the first major improvement of the draft law presented by the European Commission in December. MEPs expressed support for default protections from tracking and profiling for the purposes of advertising and recommending or ranking content. Now the ball is in the court of the leading committee on internal market and consumer protection (IMCO), which received 1313 pages of amendments to be voted in November.  EDRi's member Panoptykon Foundation explores if the Parliament would succeed in adopting a position that will contest the power of dominant online platforms which shape the digital public sphere in line with their commercial interests, at the expense of individuals and societies.

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November 26, 2020

Taking on Big Tech: The Fight for Digital Rights

Digital Freedom Fund’s first ever Speakers Series will run throughout November and December 2020, and will explore the key role of competition law in protecting digital rights. The series will feature preeminent speakers including Dr Niamh Dunne, Dr Miriam Buiten, and Dr Konstantinos Stylianou.

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