October 24, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices

Deported for reporting a crime: the paradox of securitisation policies

The review of the Return Directive, which governs detention and deportation procedures in the EU, should not lead to the criminalisation of undocumented people. Rather, it should uphold their fundamental right to personal data protection by establishing firewalls that allow them to report crimes without fears of being deported.

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March 15, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

All you need to know about copyright and EDRi

The last vote on the Copyright Directive’s final text is set to take place on 26 March. Ahead of this crucial vote in the European Parliament plenary, here is some background on EDRi’s priorities around this topic.

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December 9, 2015 · Blogs

Civil Liberties Committee preliminary vote on EU profiling of airline passengers

The European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) will vote on Thursday 10 December to adopt the informal text agreed on the EU Directive on the use of of Passenger Name Records (EU PNR Directive). A second committee vote, followed by a vote of the European Parliament’s plenary are expected in […]

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October 24, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality

Unpacking digital fairness: What Europe must do now to end the tech industry’s most nefarious tactics

The EU plans to propose a Digital Fairness Act to better protect consumers from deceptive design practices, social media addiction, and pervasive online tracking. We unpack what this means and what the European Commission should do to end Big Tech’s most nefarious tactics.

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December 14, 2015 · Blogs

EU Commission platforms consultation: Just how biased is it?

The EU’s consultation raises more questions than answers – we wonder why the real questions are not being asked:

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February 7, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

Smashing the law without breaking it: A Commission guide

How to create a general monitoring obligation without creating a general monitoring obligation? That is the question that the Commission has been trying to answer with the Article 13 of its “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market”. It aims at solving the issue of a so-called “value gap”, that is […]

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February 7, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Data protection – time for action

On 24 January 2018, the European Commission (EC) published a Communication on the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), entering into force on 25 May 2018: “Stronger protection, new opportunities”.

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December 14, 2016 · Blogs

Net neutrality violations ceased after AKVorrat intervention

On 5 October 2016, EDRi observer AKVorrat Austria filed a complaint with Austrian telecoms regulator RTR against mobile operator Hutchison Drei based on Drei’s violations of net neutrality principles. Now the operator has given in and stopped the offending practice. At the same time, Drei has more than quadrupled data volumes included in its data […]

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November 24, 2014 · Blogs

Draft Commission Work Programme 2015: huge challenges for digital rights

EDRi has obtained a copy of the draft Commission Work Programme 2015. For those who have followed the nomination hearings of the Commissioners, this draft programme does not contain any major surprises. However, it does show the huge number of proposals and initiatives that will have a direct impact on our fundamental rights and freedoms […]

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April 24, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Strategic litigation against civil rights violations in police laws

Almost every German state has expanded or is preparing to expand police powers. The police authorities are now more often allowed to interfere with civil rights, even before a specific danger has been identified. They are also given new means to conduct secret surveillance online. EDRi member Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights) […]

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February 21, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Copyright reform: The Bulgarian Presidency strikes back

Article 13 is a key issue in the discussions on the “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market” that have been going on since 2016. It proposes requiring services that store content on the internet for users to “take measures, such as content recognition technologies, aimed at preventing the upload of […]

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May 13, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Ban biometric mass surveillance!

44 civil society organisations call for a ban on biometric mass surveillance in EDRi's new paper, "Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance: A set of fundamental rights demands for the European Commission and EU Member States"

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