February 3, 2025

FITS – Festival de Innovacion y tecnologia social

The Innovation and Social Technology Festival (FITS) is 10 years old and arrives in Bogotá, to reaffirm the commitment to lead social transformation through the strategic use of technology and digital resilience.

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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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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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