March 8, 2023 · Blogs | Open letters | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

Open Letter: The AI video surveillance measures in the Olympics Games 2024 law violate human rights

In an open letter, EDRi, ECNL, La Quadrature du Net, Amnesty International France and 34 civil society organisations call on the French Parliament to reject Article 7 of the proposed law on the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games.

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February 26, 2020 · EDRi-gram

EDRi-gram 18.4, 26 February 2020

"The requirement of a notification seems to be out of the question for those advocating for "efficiency" of cross-border criminal investigations, even if that means abandoning the most basic procedural safeguards"

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March 9, 2023

EU DisinfoLab 2024 Annual Conference – open call, sumbit your ideas!

After the successful #Disinfo2023 in Krakow, the 2024 Eu DisinfoLab conference is set to take place in Riga, Latvia, on 9-10 October 2024.

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January 31, 2023

Panel: how can the EU fight (partisan) disinformation and hate speech and protect media freedom and human rights?

In the last years, the relationship between the media and trust in democratic institutions has received increasingly attention. In two roundtables the panellists will discuss legal instruments, and recommendations in the context of media freedom and human rights on digital platforms.

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December 7, 2022

MozFest House

MozFest House is a local extension of MozFest, the premiere gathering for activists, artists, technologists and educators in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world.

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October 16, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Transparency

EU’s plans on encryption: What is needed?

On 18 October 2017, the European Commission is expected to publish a Communication on counter-terrorism, which will include some lines on encryption. What is encryption? Why is it important? When we send an encrypted message (or store an encrypted document), no one else but the intended recipient can read it using a unique key. So […]

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October 6, 2020 · Highlights | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Press release: The data retention regimes of France, United Kingdom and Belgium are illegal says CJEU

Note: This quick reaction is based on the Court’s press release. A more thorough analysis of the judgement will be published later this week.

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March 9, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Building the biometric state: Police powers and discrimination

This report examines the development and deployment of biometric identification technologies by police and border forces in Europe, and warns that the increasing use of the technology is likely to exacerbate existing problems with racist policing and ethnic profiling.

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October 31, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech

The European Commission struggles to find a position on encryption

On 18 October, the European Commission adopted some form of position on encryption, inexplicably embedded in its “anti-terrorism package”. Home affairs activity in relation to encryption is horizontal (covering all illegal activity) and not specifically related to terrorism. However, the Commission chose to include this topic in its anti-terrorism package. The decision to publish the […]

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March 11, 2020 · On the ground | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Transparency

Facebook starts to increase transparency in political ads in the Balkans

Facebook has announced that it will expand its transparency system and confirmation of authenticity of ads about elections and politics starting from mid-March. Namely, Facebook will cover 32 additional countries, including Serbia and North Macedonia where the elections are to take place very soon.

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 16 February 2022

In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we put EDRi's affiliate ECNL in the spotlight to take a peek at the fights they are fighting to advance our freedoms online and offline. We're also looking at a comparison between the Western Balkans countries' digital advancement and what the digitalisation of all aspects of life mean citizens' well-being. We're also exploring the Belgian authority's decision that IAB Europe’s consent pop-ups are incompatible with the GDPR, which has been confirmed by 27 data protection authorities from 20 EU countries involved in the cross-border investigation.

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January 23, 2023

Big Brother Awards 2022

The Big Brother Awards draw attention to individuals, companies and governments who have grossly infringed our digital rights.

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