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April 25, 2023 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Retrospective facial recognition surveillance conceals human rights abuses in plain sight

Following the burglary of a French logistics company in 2019, facial recognition technology (FRT) was used on security camera footage of the incident in an attempt to identify the perpetrators. In this case, the FRT system listed two hundred people as potential suspects. From this list, the police singled out ‘Mr H’ and charged him with the theft, despite a lack of physical evidence to connect him to the crime. The judge decided to rely on this notoriously discriminatory technology, sentencing Mr H to 18 months in prison.

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March 31, 2011

Czech Constitutional Court rejects data retention law

The Czech Constitutional Court decided today, 31 March 2011, that the national implementation of the data retention directive is unconstitutional, in a complaint drafted by EDRi-member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe). See below the full press release from IuRe and Translation in English of the decision Constitutional Court: Spying on Communication Declared Unconstitutional An ongoing campaign by […]

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October 22, 2008

British court: people are bound to reveal computer encryption key

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two persons were denied by the court the right to silence in relation to the encryption key they were asked to reveal to the police. The men had brought as argument to the court that handing over the encrypted key for the data in their computers would […]

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November 19, 2014 · Blogs

Denmark plans to use PNR data for increased Schengen border control

In Denmark, there is currently a public consultation for a new draft law which aims at improving the border checks at Denmark’s Schengen borders. Formally, the Schengen Border Code has abolished border checks at EU’s internal borders, but, under Article 21, member states are still allowed to carry out identity checks in the border territory, […]

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December 16, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

European court supports transparency in risky EU border tech experiments

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the European Commission must reveal initially-withheld documents relating to the controversial iBorderCtrl project, which experimented with risky biometric ‘lie detection’ systems at EU borders. However, the judgement continued to safeguard some of the commercial interests of iBorderCtrl, despite it being an EU-funded migration technology with implications for the protection of people’s rights.

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November 8, 2006

Danish ISP forced to block Allofmp3.com

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Danish court ruled against the Danish ISP Tele2 and ordered to block all access to the site Allofmp3.com. According to the ruling, the ISP is willingly infringing copyright if its customers use AllofMP3 to download music. IFPI Denmark sued the ISP, Tele2, in July 2006. It […]

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December 16, 2015 · Blogs

EU Parliamentarians make statement on the Digital Single Market

On 14 December 2015, the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) met in Strasbourg to vote on their report ”Towards a Digital Single Market Act”. This non-legislative statement is a response to the European Commission’s Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, presented on 6 […]

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April 12, 2019 · Document pools | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data

Cross-border access to data for law enforcement: Document pool

The European Commission proposed a Regulation on cross-border access to and preservation of electronic data held by service providers and a Directive to require service providers to appoint a legal representative within the EU in April 2018. Since then, the legislative process to adopt them has been fast-tracked, which has prevented any proper assessment of […]

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January 25, 2017 · Blogs

New Danish law can lead to substantial internet censorship

On 12 January 2017, the Danish Ministry of Justice presented a draft law on website blocking for public consultation. This step had been expected for a couple of months as part of the government’s action plan on countering online extremism and radicalisation. Denmark has a complete opt-out from the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) area […]

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March 7, 2018 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Czech BBA for Ministry of Industry and Trade for data retention

The winners of the 13th edition of the Czech Big Brother Awards were announced on 15 February 2018 in Prague.

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January 21, 2016 · Blogs

Access Now, EDRi on data protection: “No Safe Harbour 2.0 without reform on both sides of the Atlantic”

On January 12, Estelle Massé, Policy Analyst at Access Now, and Joe McNamee, Executive Director at EDRi, were invited by the committee of EU data protection authorities – the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party – to discuss the aftermath of the Safe Harbour ruling. Read our full submission to the Article 29 Data Protection […]

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May 4, 2011

Data Retention has arrived in Austria

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung erreicht Österreich | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_erreicht_Oesterreich] While the Czech Constitutional Court has recently declared the national data retention legislation unconstitutional, the Legal Services of the German Bundestag has found it impossible to ensure the legality of the Data Retention Directive and the European Commission itself still struggles to prove […]

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