July 13, 2015 · Blogs

EU Parliament to vote on indiscriminate collection and storage of travel data on 15 July

Two years after rejecting the Commission proposal for a Directive on Passenger Name Record (PNR) in April 2013, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is expected to vote again on the adoption of this blanket surveillance measure on 15 July. The purpose of the Directive is to collect and store the […]

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February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Dangerous by design: A cautionary tale about facial recognition

In this fifth and final installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we consider an experience of harm caused by fundamentally violatory biometric surveillance technology.

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October 17, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online

EU Council legal services unclear about censorship filters

On 16 October 2017, Politico leaked the response from the Legal Services of the Council of the European Union (CLS) to the questions raised by six member states about the legality of the upload filter proposal in the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal. As the censorship filter is about restricting fundamental rights, it […]

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February 26, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Immigration, iris-scanning and iBorderCTRL

Technologies like automated decision-making, biometrics, and unpiloted drones are increasingly controlling migration and affecting millions of people on the move. This second blog post in our series on AI and migration highlights some of these uses, to show the very real impacts on people’s lives, exacerbated by a lack of meaningful governance and oversight mechanisms […]

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January 18, 2019 · Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Terrorist Content: IMCO draft Opinion sets the stage right for EP

On 16 January 2019, the European Parliament Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) published its draft Opinion on the Regulation to prevent the dissemination of terrorist content online. The Opinion challenges many of the issues from the original Commission proposal. The Opinion from IMCO should “inform” the main Report prepared by the the […]

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January 16, 2013 · Blogs

EU PNR directive gets funding before being adopted

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU PNR-Richtlinie zur Fluggastüberwachung: Erst finanzieren, dann verabschieden | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_EU_PNR-Richtlinie_zur_Fluggastueberwachung_Erst_finanzieren_dann_verabschieden?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] The European Parliament (EP) Civil Liberties Committee is to vote, by the end of January 2013, on the controversial EU-Passenger Name Record (PNR) directive proposal introduced in February 2011 that has already been examined by the three EP […]

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October 8, 2008

Social Networks – on the European Commission's Agenda

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, gave her first public speech on social networks at the Safer Internet Forum on 26 September 2008, which confirms the interest of the EU bodies on this topic. The commissioner emphasized the growth of the social networks in Europe: […]

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October 8, 2008

Serbia: Conference on Regulation of online Freedom of Expression

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 8 and 9 September 2008, the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade hosted the international conference on regulation of freedom of expression on the Internet, organized by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) of the University of Oxford. EDRi-member Metamorphosis […]

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January 13, 2016 · Blogs

EDRi’s first input to EU regulators on net neutrality guidelines

The Body of EU Telecoms Regulators known as “BEREC” has held its first round of discussions with stakeholders to exchange views on how BEREC should interpret the uncertainties created by the EU Regulation on net neutrality. These include questions surrounding traffic management measures and their transparency, Internet Access Services’ quality parameters, so-called “specialised services” and […]

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Nine controversies about obligatory prepaid registration

“Register your prepaid and get free calls/internet transfer/win a car” – you can hear from Polish telecom operators, as a reminder that all pre-paid SIM cards have to be registered by 1 February 2017. One could almost think that this is just a nicely coordinated campaign of leading telecoms, aimed at collecting a bit more data […]

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January 14, 2015 · Blogs

Germany gets warning about warning letters

Ever since the adoption of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive (IPRED) in 2004, and its ensuing transposition into national laws, warning letters based on alleged copyright infringements have become big business for the German content-industry, anti-piracy firms and their affiliated lawyers. From the perspective of hundreds of thousands of internet users, however, they are a nuisance […]

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December 20, 2006

ENDitorial: AVMS Directive : TV or not TV – that is the question

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The discussions on the new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS) are continuing unabated within the European Union’s institutions. With regards to Internet media, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament are moving in the same direction. The question is how far. The new Directive […]

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