June 10, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

SHARE’s campaign bears fruit: Google appoints Serbian representatives

Serbian citizens can now bring their objections and requests regarding Google’s use of their private data to the tech giant’s new representative in the country.

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March 20, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Disinformation and electoral interference | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality

EDRi calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19

Some of the actions taken by governments and businesses under exceptional Coronavirus circumstances today, can have significant repercussions on freedom of expression, privacy and other human rights both today and tomorrow.

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May 4, 2020 · Document pools | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-19 & Digital Rights: Document Pool

Find in this EDRi doc pool all relevant articles and documents around the COVID-19 crisis and digital rights.

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June 24, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Digital rights in trade agreements | Freedom of expression online

European Commission derails copyright reform in South Africa

Last year, the South African parliament adopted a progressive new copyright bill that would have drastically improved access to educational materials, introduced a fair use exception, implemented the Marrakesh treaty for the benefit of people who are blind or print disabled, and strengthened the negotiating positions of authors and performers in their negotiations with publishers.

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April 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Regulating Border Tech Experiments in a Hostile World

We are facing a growing panopticon of technology that limits people’s movements, their ability to reunite with their families, and at the worst of times, their ability to stay alive.  Power and knowledge monopolies are allowed to exist because there is no unified global regulatory regime governing the use of new technologies, creating laboratories for high-risk experiments with profound impacts on people’s lives.

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July 17, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

IBM’s facial recognition: the solution cannot be left to companies

On 8 June 2020, IBM’s CEO announced to the US Congress that – on the grounds of “justice and racial equity” – the company would “sunset” its “general purpose” facial recognition technologies. EDRi has addressed the company through a letter, but IBM's response suggests the organisation is motivated by public relations, instead of fundamental rights.

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May 3, 2017 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: epicenter.works

epicenter.works is a non-profit organisation from Austria committed to the preservation of fundamental rights in the digital age and a pluralistic society.

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May 3, 2017 · Blogs

Encryption – debunking the myths

How to send a sensitive message protecting it from spying eyes? Encrypt it. You think your message is not sensitive or that no one is spying on you? Encrypt it anyway. When you send your message encrypted, no-one else but the intended recipient can read it. Even if someone manages to catch the message when […]

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February 2, 2006

Debates on draft directive on Television without Frontiers Directive

During the Oxford Media Convention on 19 January 2006, Hon.Tessa Jowell, the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport expressed the opinion that a European Union plan to introduce Internet regulation was unwelcome, arguing that new media were best left to govern themselves. The statement comes at a time when the European Union […]

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January 31, 2007

Italian Supreme court decision on file-sharing case – nothing new

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court “ruled not-for-profit file-sharing legal”. That statement is grossly overstated, if not completely wrong. The “dismal” state of Italian copyright legislation remains, unfortunately, unchanged. One might argue that the media hype, per se, is an […]

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May 23, 2012

ENDitorial: Online child protection should not come hand-in-hand with censorship

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Schutz von Kindern im Internet sollte nicht mit Zensur einhergehen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.10_ENDitorial_Schutz_von_Kindern_im_Internet_sollte_nicht_mit_Zensur_einhergehen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120523] Earlier this month, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government would be considering default filtering of ‘adult content’ on the internet. The announcement came shortly after the release of a report by […]

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February 2, 2006

Combating Racism on Internet

A High Level Seminar on Racism and the Internet – the 4th Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action took place in Geneva, during 16-17 January 2006. Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, director and founder of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties prepared a background report for the seminar […]

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