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October 12, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Profiling practices | Transparency

Political negotiations continue: EU lawmakers fail to agree on strong rules for regulating political advertising

On 10 October, the European Parliament, the Commission and the EU Council had their fifth meeting (in the so-called trilogues) to find an agreement on the transparency and targeting of political advertising. The three institutions could not come to a consensus. Here is why.

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November 29, 2023

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025

This is the exhibition conceived by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler for Osservatorio's headquarters in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan that maps our technological present, illustrating how power and technology have been intertwined since the 1500s.

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January 17, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

Challenges ahead: European Media Freedom Act falls short in safeguarding journalists and EU fundamental values

The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) culminated in a politically pressured final trilogue on 15 December 2023. Unfortunately, the agreed-upon text lacks crucial safeguards against surveillance of journalists, which dangerously promote the use of spyware in the EU. It alsoraises concerns about Article 17 and the “media exemption”, potentially undermining the Digital Services Act (DSA) provisions.

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March 7, 2024 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation

Delay, depress, destroy: How tech corporations subvert the EU’s new digital laws

When the DSA and DMA were passed in 2022, major tech industry associations praised the new laws as significant achievements. It is time for Big Tech corporations to stop pouting and live up to their responsibility.

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April 17, 2024 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 17 April 2024

But what knocked everyone's socks off was the massive victory in Greece, where EDRi member Homo Digitalis' strategic complaint led to a record-breaking fine to the Ministry of Asylum and Migration for violating people's data protection rights in its border management systems KENTAUROS and HYPERION. This news from Greece, immediately followed by the European Parliament's vote on the European Union's asylum system (EURODAC), makes it irrefutable that the Migration Pact is the EU's attempt to codify in law surveillance practices that not only gravely harm the rights of migrants but which are illegal. 

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May 1, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

The future of our fight against biometric mass surveillance

The final AI Act is disappointingly full of holes when it comes to bans on different forms of biometric mass surveillance (BMS). Despite this, there are some silver linings in the form of opportunities to oppose BMS in public spaces and to push for better protection of people’s sensitive biometric data.

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May 30, 2024 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Be scanned – or get banned!

In the latest in a string of alarming developments, the Belgian government has proposed a new supposed 'solution' to the Chat Control deadlock in the Council. Read why this new proposal undermines people's security across the European Union.

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February 2, 2006

UK Passenger Travel Data in Advance

Security services and the police in UK will have a new power. According to the immigration bill going through the Parliament, airlines will have to give them advanced access to personal online details of all passengers travelling in and out Great Britain. The home secretary, Charles Clarke announced the intention to extend the system to […]

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May 24, 2006

PM supports UK ID Cards Act

Tony Blair stated a strong support for the ID card Act that was initially rejected by the House of Lords in January this year. The Government had considered the card as essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration, and identity theft. However, the House of Lords required from the Government to give further clarifications […]

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June 7, 2006

New Czech Police draft act allows taking DNA samples by force

The Czech Senate, upper chamber of the Parliament, approved on 25 May 2006 the amendment of the Criminal Proceedings Code and Police Act, which empowers police officers to take DNA samples and other identification samples as fingerprints. According to the draft police can take the DNA samples even by using force in case of resistance. […]

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July 5, 2006 · Blogs

Terrorist Finance Tracking Program raises privacy questions

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 22-23 June 2006, the New York Times published a story uncovering an international financial surveillance programme, called Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, run by the US authorities. After the 11 September 2001 attacks, the US Treasury Department and/or CIA starting getting access to international transfer data, available […]

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July 19, 2006

ISPs reaction to British Phonographic Industry action

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) accused the ISPs Tiscali and Cable&Wireless of harbouring filesharers and demanded the close up of 17 and 42 respectively.. BPI has already taken action against 139 uploaders, having settled in court 111 cases of them and considers its campaign against filesharers is […]

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