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December 18, 2020 · Blogs | Highlights | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

The EU’s attempt to regulate Big Tech: What it brings and what is missing

This week, the European Commission has proposed two long-awaited pieces of digital legislation, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. Despite a number of good provisions, there are also major shortcomings which must be addressed to guarantee the protection of digital rights.

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July 22, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Equal access to the internet | Platform regulation

Von der Leyen: An ambitious agenda for digital rights

On 16 July 2019, the European Parliament elected Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission with 383 votes, which is only nine votes above the minimum needed. Parts of the Socialists, Liberals, and Greens initially had doubts regarding the candidate. However, her speech in the Plenary before the vote and the agenda […]

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May 29, 2024 · Blogs | Press mentions | Information democracy

Digital futures for all

In recent years, protecting and advancing digital rights feels like a never-ending battle as more and more of our lives get entangled with the digital world. Challenges to our freedoms online and offline continue to pile up as we face tech corporations with ginormous budgets and states with carte blanche to do anything for ‘national security’ reasons.

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May 29, 2024 · Blogs | Information democracy | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Freedom of expression online | Transparency

The new EU Commission must address information power

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, ARTICLE 19 shares its recommendations for the new European Commission, urging it to strive for a more open information environment across the EU.

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April 2, 2025 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology

Utopian dreams, sobering reality: The end we start from in EU’s approach to technology

We imagine a day in the near-future, when EU lawmakers commit to building a world where people, our planet, and democracy flourishes – and heed to civil society’s long-standing collective demands to achieve this. But in reality, we seem to be getting farther and farther away from this utopian scenario, and are preparing for a sobering next few years in the EU tech policy space.

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June 11, 2025 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection

Why the EU’s GDPR ‘simplification’ reforms could unravel hard-won protections

Since it came into force almost seven years ago, the European Union (EU)'s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has set the global standard for data protection. It empowers people to control their personal data while holding businesses accountable for how they collect, process, and store that data. One would imagine that all of the above would cement the GDPR, but this crucial law is being threatened by a push for profit at any cost.

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August 3, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi submits response to the European Commission AI adoption consultation

Today, 3rd of August 2021, European Digital Rights (EDRi) submitted its response to the European Commission’s adoption consultation on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA).

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February 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

12 benchmarks for the reform and oversight of intelligence services in Austria

EDRi member epicenter.works presents the benchmarks against which the new reform of the Austrian Federal Agency for State Protection and Counterterrorism must be measured. With these criteria, guided strongly by international standards and jurisdiction, epicenter.works expect the legislative proposals on the reform in the next few weeks, ready to defend fundamental human rights.

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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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January 19, 2022 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

People ask MEPs: Take the opportunity, end surveillance ads!

Thousands of people are asking the EU Parliament to end online surveillance advertising , ahead of the DSA (Digital Services Act) vote in the plenary on Thursday, 20 January 2022. EDRi is part of the movement mobilising people, together with individual organisations in the PeopleVsBigTech group and beyond.

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February 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Open internet and inclusive technology | Data protection standards | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Polish law on “protecting the freedoms of social media users” will do exactly the opposite

EDRi member Panoptykon Foundation carefully analyses the Polish law on “the protection of freedoms of social media users” which turns out to introduce data retention, a new, questionable definition of “unlawful content”, and an oversight body that is likely to be politically compromised.

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July 6, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

The UK Data Reform Bill and the British Bill of Rights: a tragedy in two acts

The dust hasn’t settled since plans to undermine everyone’s right to data protection were announced, but the UK Government are at it again. Plans to ditch the Human Rights Act in the UK were just unveiled, in a combined effort to steamroll the rule of law and the freedoms we have always taken for granted. EDRi member Open Rights Group explains how the impact of this constitutional butchery reverberates in data protection, and why both the Data Reform Bill and the Bill of Rights follow a common thread.

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