October 15, 2015 · Blogs

Belgian Big Brother Awards 2015 go to surveillance measures in schools and privacy-invasive apps

On 15 October, the Big Brother Awards 2015 took place in Brussels. The Awards are presented annually to “reward” the leading privacy violators.

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September 10, 2014 · Blogs

Germany exports surveillance technologies to human rights violators

From Mexico to Mozambique to Pakistan and beyond, there is now ample evidence that governments across the globe are using mass surveillance technologies to spy on their citizens. Who makes these technologies? And who benefits from their sales? Germany is a major exporter of these technologies and , at the same time as digital communications […]

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February 13, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data

LIBE Committee analysis: Challenges of cross-border access to data

On 7 February, the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) presented two new working documents analysing further the issue of cross-border access to data in criminal matters, also known as “e-evidence”.

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June 30, 2004

New EU questionnaire on data retention

The working party on co-operation in criminal matters (Justice ministry officials) has issued a new questionnaire about data retention to all member states. Answers have to be given by 29 July 2004, the results will be debated in the next meeting of the working party on 27 and 28 September 2004. Clearly the Dutch presidency […]

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June 30, 2004

EDRI signs TACD resolution against PNR-transfer

On his last day as President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox finally decided to give in to the demands from the Legal Affairs committee and the majority of political group leaders. The European Parliament has now asked the European Court of Justice to annul the recently signed EU-U.S. agreement on transfer of airline Passenger […]

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October 17, 2016 · Blogs | Publications

Booklet: Your guide to the Digital Defenders

Today, we are publishing a booklet "Your guide to Digital Defenders vs. Data Intruders - Privacy for kids!", to help young people between 10-14 years to protect their privacy.

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October 19, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Commissioner defends nuclear attack on internet freedom

The European Commission launched its proposal for a Copyright Directive in September 2016. The legislation includes new rules on filtering of uploads to the internet, text and data mining and the so-called “link tax”.

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February 13, 2019 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Czech BBA nominates the worst privacy intruders for the 14th time

The 14th Big Brother Awards (BBA) in the Czech Republic will take place on 14 February 2019. Awards for the biggest privacy intruders in 2018 will be announced by EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe). The Big Brother Awards, based on a concept created by EDRi member Privacy International, are intended to draw public attention to […]

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October 19, 2016 · Blogs

Censorship in Italy: Child protection is the excuse again

One of the recurrent attempts to control the internet is the excuse of “child protection”. Italy has moved a step to this direction, and is going to release a new law against “cyberbullying” that confirms this new trend. This new project follows the same well-worn, failed approach.

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September 12, 2007

Lukashenko wants no opposition on the Internet

Belarus president Lukashenko claimed in a recent interview that on the Internet there was too much opposition to his views. As a response some groups of the Belarusian Internet community prepared a customized version of the Internet for their president. Internet-community “Third Way” prepared a birthday present for Belarusian acting president A. Lukashenko – the […]

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June 30, 2004 · Blogs

E-Openness awards for Ukrainian city councils

During the international conference in Kiev ‘Freedom of Information, Transparency, E-governance: Civic Society View’ on 15 June 2004 the first Awards for E-Openness in the Ukraine were presented to 4 city councils. The aim of the Award is to demonstrate best practices of local authorities in interaction via official web sites. The Award is called […]

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September 10, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Down with (discriminating) systems

Amidst a particularly hectic time for digital rights policy in Europe, there remains a large elephant in the room.

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