May 27, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Competition law: Big Tech mergers, a dominance tool

This is the third article in a series dealing with competition law and Big Tech. The aim of the series is to look at what competition law has achieved when it comes to protecting our digital rights, where it has failed to deliver on its promises, and how to remedy this.

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June 22, 2022 · Jobs in the sector

Open Rights Group is hiring for various positions

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital rights organisation that campaigns to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online.

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March 10, 2021 · EDRi-gram | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 10 March 2021

Unless we take strong action, people in Europe could soon face the end of our privacy and anonymity in public spaces as we know it. We need to rise against the growing use of sinister, unnecessary and disproportionate technologies in our public spaces which abuse our faces. 34,000+ incredible supporters have already joined the fight by officially signing our formal “European Citizens’ Initiative”. Help us reach one million signatures by spreading the word, mobilising your friends and family and even writing to your national or European Parliamentary representatives.

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April 16, 2023

More-than-human exhibition (Curated by Jane Tingley)

more-than-human presents media artworks at the intersection of art, science, Indigenous worldviews, and technology that speculatively and poetically use multimodal storytelling as a vehicle for interpreting, mattering, and embodying more-than-human ecologies.

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July 3, 2024

RigthsCon25

Each edition of RightsCon convenes business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. RightsCon is where the global community comes together to build strategies and drive forward change toward a more free, open, and connected world.

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July 11, 2023

Cambridge Disinformation Summit

Strategic disinformation is an accelerant for major societal problems such as climate change, extremism, polarisation, fraud, and suppression of rights. It is exploited across all information dissemination platforms, including social media, news media, financial and non-financial reporting, and other broadcast vehicles.

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April 26, 2023

RightsCon Costa Rica

RightsCon offers a platform for thousands of participants around the world to convene, connect, and contribute to a shared agenda for the future. Join this global community of business leaders, activists, technologists, policymakers, journalists, philanthropists, researchers, and artists, and explore opportunities to advance human rights in the digital age.

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June 16, 2021 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi joins 178 organisations in global call to ban biometric surveillance

From protesters taking to the streets in Slovenia, to the subways of São Paulo; from so-called “smart cities” in India, to children entering French high schools; from EU border control experiments, to the racialised over-policing of people of colour in the US. In each of these examples, people around the world are increasingly and pervasively being subjected to toxic biometric surveillance. This is why EDRi has joined the global Ban Biometric Surveillance coalition, to build on our work in Europe as part of the powerful Reclaim Your Face campaign.

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September 9, 2024

Disinformation & Democracy Conference 2024

The conference seeks to address the critical issue of disinformation and its impact on democratic processes. It will bring together experts from the public sector, private industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations to discuss strategies for combating disinformation and enhancing strategic communication.

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October 20, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Closing the Loopholes in EU’s Net Neutrality Framework

The European net neutrality rules are being reformed to fix one of the biggest loopholes in the EU‘s framework: Zero-Rating. EDRi has been vocal about the dangers of Zero-Rating, a practice by which telecoms companies discriminate between online services by making some data traffic more expensive than other such traffic. Prompted by three judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Board of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has acknowledged that their previous 2016 Guidelines on how to enforce the Net Neutrality Regulation have to be overhauled. The direction of the reform is looking to confirm the previous submissions of EDRi over the past six years and today we add another submission to BEREC with the hope of fixing the last loophole in Europe’s net neutrality framework.  

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June 30, 2022 · Blogs | Open letters | Open internet and inclusive technology | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

Civil society groups urge EU Parliament to use all its powers to ensure Digital Markets Act enforcement has necessary resources

On June 28, EDRi and 16 civil society organisations urged the European Parliament to focus its attention on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement.

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June 2, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

GDPR: Three years in, and its future and success are still up in the air

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not living up to the hype. When first implemented in 2018, the GDPR was presented as the new world standard for privacy and data protection. The law has increased data protection awareness and led to significant legal changes all over the world. Yet EDRi member Access Now’s new report, Three years under the GDPR: An implementation progress report, explores just how far this legislation still has to go before its promises — and potential — are truly fulfilled.

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