May 27, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

France: First victory against police drones

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, French police has been using drones to watch people and make sure they respect the lockdown. Drones had been used before by the police for the surveillance of protests, but the COVID-19 crisis represented a change of scale.

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

UK: Stop social media monitoring by local authorities

Would you like your local government to judge you by your Facebook activity? In a recent study, we investigated how local authorities (Councils) in Great Britain are looking at social media accounts as part of their investigation tactics on issues such as benefits, debt recovery, fraud, environmental investigations, and children’s social care.

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January 29, 2014 · Blogs

Data protection package delayed after the Euro elections

The EU’s much discussed data protection package will not be adopted before the elections for the European Parliament which are due in May 2014. “They have elaborated a road map and now they need to deliver on it basically but I think the political agreement to get this done before the end of the year […]

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January 31, 2007

Serbia rejects biometric ID cards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A grass-roots campaign in Serbia successfully pressed the Serbian government to back off on a plan to make biometric data compulsory in the country’s new ID cards. The decision followed a pitched battle prior to the 21 January 2007 election as opponents criticized the accompanying plan for […]

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January 30, 2008

Bulgarian Big Brother Awards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 28 January 2008, the Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society Bulgaria presented the Big Brother negative awards. The Big Brother award was presented to the Ministry of Interior for publishing data from the passports and criminal conviction records of two BBC journalists who were […]

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April 6, 2016 · Blogs

Opt me out of location – campaign and report against mobile tracking

Open Rights Group, a UK member of EDRi has launched a campaign to enable people to opt out of location and web traffic tracking by their mobile providers. The campaign includes a tool to help people find out how to opt out, which is usually quite hard to find information about. The campaign is backed […]

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February 15, 2006 · Blogs

EDRI-gram in Macedonian

Starting with February 2006, part of EDRI-gram will be available in Macedonian, a few days after the English edition. The translation is done by the NGO Metamorphosis, which is also an EDRI-member. Some of the articles from the previous EDRI-gram 4.2 are already available online at http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=626&Itemid=4&lang=mk

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May 16, 2018 · Blogs

A glimpse of our 15th Anniversary

In 2018, European Digital Rights (EDRi) turned 15. We gathered to celebrate a decade and a half of existence of our network and its digital rights victories. The anniversary party took place on 12 April 2018 in Brussels. In between keynote presentations, a fireside chat with our founders, and a final word from our Executive Director, […]

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March 11, 2015 · Blogs

Scottish Government proposes a national ID database

The Scottish Government has run a consultation to use the National Health Service (NHS) Registry database as a means to connect citizens’ data and allow online logins. The proposal has similar characteristics to the plan to introduce an Identity Database in the United Kingdom which was abandoned in 2006. Campaigners and opposition parties have urged […]

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October 17, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Trilogues on terrorist content: Upload or re-upload filters? Eachy peachy.

On 17 October 2019, the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union (EU) and the European Commission started closed-door negotiations, trilogues, with a view to reaching an early agreement on the Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. The European Parliament improved the text proposed by the European Commission by addressing its […]

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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Copyright exceptions and limitations – back to the future

The noise around the non-legislative report of the European Parliament on the Copyright in the Information Society Directive (also known as the InfoSoc Directive and Directive 2001/29/EC) in Brussels is deafening. With one Committee still to table its amendments, the total number of amendment has already reached 759. Part of the reason for this is […]

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November 20, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Dance. Enjoy. Share. With Care.

Anyone using cloud services should be aware of what the “cloud” is, what it is not, and how it can affect our privacy and security. Our information stored in “clouds” can be protected if the EU says “Yes!” to a strong ePrivacy Regulation, greater enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and drops the […]

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