March 11, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Germany: Invading refugees’ phones – security or population control?

In its new study, EDRi member Society for Civil Rights (GFF) examines how German authorities sniff out refugees’ phones. The aim of “data carrier evaluation” is supposed to be determining a person’s identity and their country of origin. However, in reality, it violates refugees’ rights and does not produce any meaningful results.

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November 25, 2022

Digital Justice House

This is a great opportunity for both managers and employees to learn about practical things they can do right now to improve the health of their teams and organizations.

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April 17, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

The two sides of web scraping: When data collection becomes a double-edged sword

Emerging AI technology often relies on methods of data collection – such as web-scraping – which can become a double edged sword when not used with safeguards and transparency or in ways that are unlawful. These methods have been used to achieve several key victories for digital rights, but can also be exploitative.

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March 13, 2024

Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress

Join your peers, stakeholder, industry players and providers at the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress to find real solutions to the challenges and needs of the sector and discover new ways of collaboration to build a better digital world.

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November 15, 2022

Bread&Net 2022 – Surveillance

Exporting Surveillance, Arming Abuse.

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May 8, 2023

The Good Lobby Summer Academy

Every year, The Good Lobby Summer Academy gathers a select group of leading thinkers, practitioners, and academics working on new forms and politics of influence, mobilisation and lobbying coming from all over the world. This year’s Academy will take place from Monday 17 July (midday) to Thursday 20 July (midday) 2023, in Bilbao, Spain, by the sea in Hotel Igeretxe.

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November 25, 2022

Open Future Salon #2. Launch of Paradox of Open: Responses

The essays tackle the paradox from multiple perspectives, looking at such issues as risks of underestimating openness, public memory, creative communities, social justice in the context of open, web3, and the legacy – and continuation – of the copyright wars.

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November 15, 2022

Bread&Net 2022 – Digital Security

Digital Security: How to Plan for it? Participants will learn about methodologies and resources useful to explore the digital security threats concerning their work.

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September 4, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Age against the machine: the race to make online spaces age-appropriate

The race is on to make online spaces age-appropriate, but children’s best interest is no Olympic sport. While the internet was not designed with kids in mind, children, teens and young adults are now spending more time online than ever. Parents use video-sharing platforms to show cartoons to their toddlers, while kids and adolescents play online games, engage in social media, learn through online modules, and fashion their identities through their online activities.

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April 15, 2020 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Control ©: defending free online communication through litigation

Former Member of the European Parliament Felix Reda has joined the EDRi member German Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights). The copyright reform activist will coordinate control ©, a new project to defend freedom of communication.

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November 25, 2022

19th International e-Society.mk Conference: “Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Finding the Right Balance between Innovation and Responsibility”

The conference will explore the artificial intelligence (AI) which opens unprecedented opportunities for innovation in various sectors while at the same time opening different questions on the protection of basic human rights.

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January 23, 2023

Beyond Disinformation: EU Responses to the Threat of Foreign Information Manipulation

Join the public conference organized by the EEAS about foreign infromation manipulation and disinformation.

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