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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November 15, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

High time: Policy makers increasingly embrace encryption

Encryption is of critical importance to our democracy and rule of law. Nevertheless, politicians frequently advocate for weakening this technology. Slowly but surely, however, policy makers seem to start embracing it.

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November 15, 2022

2022 VPN Village – Team Community

The VPN Village is a two-week virtual series of events focused on VPN user education and solidarity. The events held over the last week of November and first week of December will address gaps in user education around VPNs, the challenge of analyzing and selecting a VPN, and will show attendees how to set up their own VPN servers and proxies to support their communities and users combatting censorship globally.

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March 16, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online

Terrorist Content Online Regulation: Time to get things right

Closed-door negotiations (“trilogues”) on the Regulation to prevent the dissemination of terrorist content continue in Brussels. After our open letter from December things have moved on fairly slowly at first, but, recently, new texts are quickly being discussed in order to try to reach an agreement soon. Nonetheless, according to MEP Patrick Breyer, many key issues remain open for discussion.

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November 22, 2019 · Highlights | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

EU Council moves the ePrivacy reform forward – with major flaws in its position

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October 4, 2019 · Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

CJEU ruling on fighting defamation online could open the door for upload filters

Today, on 3 October 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its ruling in the case C‑18/18 Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook. The case is related to injunctions obliging a service provider to stop the dissemination of a defamatory comment. Some aspects of the decision could pose a threat for freedom of expression, in particular that of political dissidents who may be accused of defamatory practices.

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January 15, 2020 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Serbia: Complaints filed against Facebook and Google

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December 18, 2019 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Austrian government hacking law is unconstitutional

On 11 December 2019, the Austrian Constitutional Court decided that the surveillance law that permits the use of spying software to read encrypted messages violates the fundamental right to respect for private life (article 8 ECHR), the fundamental right to data protection (§ 1 Austrian data protection law) and the constitutionally granted right that prohibits unreasonable searches (Art 9 Austrian bill of rights – Staatsgrundgesetz).

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January 15, 2020 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Serbia: Complaints filed against Facebook and Google

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February 12, 2020

Freedom not Fear 2020

Freedom not Fear (FnF) is looking forward to join forces with NGOs from all over the world in order to build a strong alliance for the freedom of speech that is threatened by increasing surveillance.

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September 10, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Upload filters? Still no, thanks

Together with thousands of protestors, EDRi has fought against mandatory upload filters in the Copyright Directive. Despite the Directive having been adopted, including the infamous Article 13 (now 17) that could lead to upload filters, the Directive allows for some flexibility to prevent the worst impacts on our freedom of expression.

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January 5, 2021

European Data Protection Day 2021 – Transborder Transfers

The event will explore the challenges of international data transfer from the perspective of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Convention 108.

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