January 28, 2004

EP in favour of collecting societies and levies

On 15 January 2004 the European Parliament accepted an own-initiative report about the importance and future of collecting societies, the organisations that collect the rights on copyright and neighbouring rights. The report states that Digital Rights Management is insufficiently developed to replace the work of collecting societies. According to the report, reasonable levies (for example […]

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November 7, 2018 · Highlights | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Inclusive technologies | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Profiling practices

UN Special Rapporteur analyses AI’s impact on human rights

In October 2018, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur for the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, released his report on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for human rights. The report was submitted to the UN General Assembly on 29 August 2018 but has only been published recently.

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June 9, 2014 · Blogs

Google’s right to be forgotten – industrial scale misinformation?

When the European Court ruled on the Google Spain case, the press leaped on the decision as an example of the “right to be forgotten”. The Guardian explained that Google would “have to delete links to two pages on La Vanguardia’s website” and that “[l]egal experts said the ruling could give the go-ahead to deletion […]

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September 28, 2017 · Blogs | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

European Parliament Consumer Protection Committee chooses Google ahead of citizens – again

On 28 September, the European Parliament Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) adopted its Opinion on the proposed e-Privacy Regulation. Just as it did when reviewing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it is fighting hard to minimise the privacy and security of the European citizens it is meant to defend.

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October 3, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Battle lines drawn between citizens and internet giants in EU e-Privacy Regulation

On 2 October, the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and the Industry Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) voted on the e-Privacy Regulation, the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) voted on 28 September. These votes will feed into the final decision to be taken by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice […]

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November 20, 2018 · Open letters | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Letter to the EU Council: Stand for citizen’s rights and the European digital economy in the copyright negotiations!

On 19 November 2018, EDRi, together with 53 other NGOs, sent a letter to the Council of the European Union. The letter draws attention to the ongoing concerns regarding the proposal on copyright in the Digital Single Market, ahead of a crucial meeting on 23 November.

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August 5, 2015 · Blogs

Our internships at EDRi: We made digital rights matter

During the last couple of months, as EDRi’s interns, through advocacy, campaigning and reporting, we were given a unique opportunity to challenge threats to fundamental rights posed in the context of net neutrality, privacy, personal data and copyright. It was a fruitful and rewarding experience that allowed us to put our theoretical skills into practice […]

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November 17, 2011 · Blogs

European Parliament warns of global dangers of US domain revocation proposals

Responding to an intervention by EDRi (video, speech (PDF) at a hearing recently on attacks against computer systems, the European Parliament today adopted, by a large majority, a resolution on the upcoming EU/US summit stressing “the need to protect the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to […]

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October 13, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Europe’s governments win the Big Brother Awards 2017 for opening the pandora’s box of surveillance

On Friday 13 October, the annual Belgian Big Brother Awards – a negative prize for the worst privacy abuser of the year – took place in Brussels. The jury awarded the European trend of state hacking, European Digital Right’s (EDRi) nomination, the title of the ultimate privacy villain. The public voted Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) […]

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December 4, 2018 · On the ground | Open letters | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Serbian Data Protection Commissioner: NGOs call for transparency

Today, on 4 December, eight digital rights organisations from across Europe sent a letter to the National Assembly of Serbia, asking for a transparent process of the selection of the country’s new Data Protection Commissioner.

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December 5, 2018 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Civil society calls Council to adopt ePrivacy now

EDRi has joined a letter of 30 representatives from civil society and online industry, to the Ministers in the Telecoms Council, to express the wide support for the ePrivacy Regulation. The letter describes the clear and urgent need to strengthen privacy and security of electronic communications in the online environment, especially in the wake of […]

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October 18, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Extending the use of eID to online platforms – risks to privacy?

On 10 October 2017, the European Commission published the “draft principles and guidance on eID interoperability for online platforms” on the electronic Identification And Trust Services (eIDAS) observatory. Building on the eIDAS Regulation, the Commission would like to extend the scope of use for the eIDs to online platforms, in addition to public services. This […]

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